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  Putting access on the agenda: ensuring mobility for people with disabilities

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Whilst developed countries have made progress in making transport services more accessible for people with disabilities, developing countries have lagged behind. However, the human rights approach to disability – seeing every citizen as entitled to be included in social and economic opportunities – is slowly gaining acceptance.
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  India: An integral part of new Asia

  Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, University of Singapore, 2004

  As East Asian economies emerge from the shadow of the 1997 crisis, there appears to be an increasing recognition that greater economic coordination and cooperation among major Asian countries is essential to manage globalisation challenges, and to enhance Asia’s role in the world affairs.
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  Teacher and health care provider absence: a multi-country study

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper looks at the incidence and causes of absenteeism in public health workers and teachers in eight countries. Research was based on unannounced visits to a random sample of health care facilities and schools.
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  Tamil Nadu’s midday meal scheme where assumed benefits score over hard data

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004

  This paper examines Tamil Nadu's noon nutritious meal scheme, India's largest in terms of the number of beneficiaries covered.
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  Expansion of markets and women workers: case study of garment manufacturing in India

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004

  This study, based on the garment manufacturing industry, suggests that in the context of dynamic industrial activity in a poor labour-surplus economy, discrimination against women can take place outside the labour market. For example, employment depends on education and skills, to which women have unequal access.
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  The political economy of international development and pro-poor livestock policies: a comparative assessment

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004

  This paper analyses political organisation and action that can be used to overcome the lack of voice of poor producers in the domestic and international policy arenas.
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  Dictatorship, democracy and institutions: macro policy in China and India

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004

  This article explores whether macroeconomic policies are influenced by the political structure. The authors compare reform period policy choices and outcomes in China and India.
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  What does the State do for Indian women?

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004

  The Indian state has always had policies specially targeted at women, such as family planning policies which included measures to reduce maternal mortality, literacy and education policies, and help for widows, tribals, Muslim women, and working women.
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  Sieving budgets for gender

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004

  Gender budgeting exercises attempt to assess how far prevailing gender-based biases are incorporated into budgetary exercises. Such analyses also provide women with vital information regarding the contents and focus of existing government policies. The aim is to promote greater transparency and enhance democracy.
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  Bureaucratic corruption: efficiency virtue or distributive vice?

  Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2003

  Governments frequently allocate resources at low prices and on a first-come-first-served basis because of reasons of equity and a concern for the poor. However, bureaucrats who distribute these resources often take bribes.

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