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    Women in the labour market in China

    International Labour Organization, 2015
    his paper reviews the evolution of gender inequality in China’s labour market during the economic and social reform since 1978. The reform phase has been a period of high growth in China, but during this period we also observe increasing gender gaps in some labour market indicators.
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    Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF)

    NGO in India aiming to empowe marginalised and information-dark communities with digital literacy, access to digital tools and information-rich knowledge society ushered in by the Internet and the dig
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    Migration and global environmental change: methodological lessons from mountain areas of the global South

    Copernicus Publications, 2015
    This article synthesises evidence on the relationship between migration and environmental and climatic changes, particularly in relation to mountain livelihoods in the global South. The article highlights that mountain livelihoods are often characterized by high prevalence of family farming, widespread dependence on natural resources, and high sensitivity to climatic changes.
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    Assessing climate change vulnerability and its effects on food security: Testing a new toolkit in Tanzania

    Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2015
    This CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS) working paper presents a new step-by-step toolkit for the implementation of a participatory vulnerability assessment (PVA) in rural localities.
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    Supply or demand? How politics influences the implementation of the MGNREGA in Rajasthan

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2014
    The recent performance of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has been a matter of debate. Rajasthan, especially, performed impressively in the initial years of its National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), but experienced a sharp decline (even relative to other states) in outcomes from 2010 onwards.
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    How should Uganda grow?

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2014
    Income per capita in Uganda has doubled in the last 20 years. However, economic growth has been concentrated in non-tradable activities and faces challenges, including rapid rural population growth, high dependency ratios and an approaching oil boom of uncertain size and duration.
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    Organic agriculture and post-2015 development goals: building on the comparative advantage of poor farmers

    Asian Development Bank, 2015
    The book makes an evidence-based case for organic agriculture in developing countries, particularly those in Southeast Asia.
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    Agroforestry for landscape restoration and livelihood development in Central Asia

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2015
    This paper discusses how the adoption of agroforestry for ecosystem and livelihood improvement in Central Asian countries can be enhanced.
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    Responding to rapid population growth in Egypt

    Population Reference Bureau, 2014
    Egypt’s rapid population growth is putting pressure on the country’s economy and environment and is threatening the health and well-being of its people. From 1994 to 2014, the population grew by 46 percent, from 60 million to nearly 88 million—an increase of more than the total populations of Syria and Lebanon combined.
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    Food security in a climate perspective. NORAD Annual Report 2014

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2015
    More than 805 million still suffered from undernutrition and hunger in 2014. The vast majority of these people live in developing regions. In Sub-Saharan Africa, one in every fourth person remained undernourished in 2014. The world’s population is estimated to reach nine billion in 2050, requiring a 60% increase in food production.

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