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  Generating political priority for public health causes in developing countries: implications for a study on maternal mortality

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2007

  This Centre for Global Development brief discusses the factors that have influenced the degree to which national leaders have made maternal mortality a political priority. The brief compares five countries - Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia and Nigeria, which have varying levels of political priority for maternal mortality reduction.
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  Interrelationship between growth, inequality, and poverty: the Asian experience

  Asian Development Bank, 2007

  This paper examines the relationships between economic growth, income distribution, and poverty for 17 Asian countries for the period 1981–2001. The author uses an inequality–growth trade-off index (IGTI) to analyse the trade-off between inequality and growth. A poverty equivalent growth rate is also employed to study the distributional impact of growth.
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  Who benefits from public spending on health care in Asia?

  Equitap, 2005

  This paper by EQUITAP examines the benefit incidence of public health care subsidies in eleven Asian territories including India, Indonesia, and two provinces of China. Distinguishing between hospital and non-hospital care, and inpatient and outpatient care, the paper examines the distribution of health care and the value of subsidies.
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  Did the strategy of skilled attendance at birth reach the poor in Indonesia

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2007

  This article in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, assesses whether the strategy of “a midwife in every village” in Indonesia achieved its aim of increasing professional delivery care for the poorest women.
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  Local conflict and development projects in Indonesia: part of the problem or part of a solution?

  World Bank Publications, 2007

  This document explores the dynamics of the development-conflict nexus in rural Indonesia. It highlights the specific role of development projects in shaping the nature, extent, and trajectories of conflicts.
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  Emergency capacity building pilot projects: promising practices for risk reduction

  Inter-agency Working Group on Emergency Capacity, 2007

  Disaster risk reduction (DRR) has emerged as an important agenda item in the development community. This report identifies models and promising practices for disaster risk reduction based on experiences in the three pilot countries: Ethiopia, Guatemala and Indonesia.
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  Tsunami exposes flaws in the international humanitarian response system

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  The scale of the humanitarian response to the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was unprecedented. For once, an international emergency response was largely free of financial constraints. But in the rush to achieve results many of the agencies involved fell short, particularly in considering the needs and abilities of affected communities and local institutions.
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  Corruption perceptions vs. corruption reality

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2006

  Cross-country corruption indexes such as Transparency International’s Corruption Index and the World Bank’s Governance Indicators are used widely to determine a country’s governance performance and therefore aid effectiveness. Such indicators draw heavily on people’s perception rather than an objective indicator.
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  Oil and mining in violent places: why voluntary codes for companies don’t guarantee human rights

  Global Witness, 2007

  This paper investigates the extent to which private companies operating in conflict zones can contribute to Human Rights abuses. In addressing this issue, it focuses on four voluntary frameworks – the UN Global Compact, the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, the Global Reporting Initiative and, most relevantly, the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights.
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  Ownership in practice (Paris, 27-28 September 2007)

  OECD Development Centre, 2007

  Experts agree that a development finance system must be owned by developing countries in order to reduce poverty and achieve sustained economic growth. Ahead of the 2008 High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra (Ghana), the OECD’s Global Forum on Development invited experts from South and North to an informal workshop to share their views on developing-country ownership.

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