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    How can gender be mainstreamed into the workplace so that it improves gender equality in the world of work? This report presents 25 gender equality initiatives carried out by governments, employers' organisations and trade unions across 21 countries. 'Good Practices' by these institutions fall into eight main categories. They include :
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    Measuring unemployment: establishing the cut-off point

    Asian Development Bank, 2007
    This paper examines how the cut-off point used in determining underemployment can be very critical in the resulting indicator and therefore in its policy implications. The author argues that since many workers work around the cut-off point, it is very important to derive the right cut-off point to reduce the risk of undermining the underemployment problem.
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    Inclusive growth toward a prosperous Asia: policy implications

    Asian Development Bank, 2007
    Asia’s impressive economic growth is being complemented by soaring inequalities. This paper argues that if rising income and non-income inequalities are not addressed, there is a major risk to continued social and economic progress in developing Asia.
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    Passing on the challenges or prescribing better management of diversity?: decentralisation, power sharing and conflict dynamics in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia

    Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity, CRISE, Oxford University, 2007
    This paper explores the linkages between decentralisation, conflict and power in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. It argues that decenralisation in Indonesia has to some extent addressed existing grievances in the regions, but that such change has LAO opened up spaces for new forms of local level elite. The paper finds that:
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    Good practices in Asia: prevention and rehabilitation

    Humantrafficking.org, 2006
    Child trafficking is widespread in much of Asia. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimates that children make up 40 to 50 per cent of the 2.45 million persons trafficked for exploitative labour.
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    Tackling corruption to improve housing services in Indonesia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Corruption is widespread in Indonesia. In the capital Jakarta, corruption in the delivery of housing services is particularly damaging to poor people. What can be done to combat corruption? What lessons can be learnt from the anti-corruption initiatives in the Solok District of West Sumatra Province?
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    Natural disaster preparedness and education for sustainable development

    Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, 2007
    Education is now recognised as playing an important role in allowing individuals and communities to prepare for disaster. It forms a key element of the Hyogo Framework for Action and is also being addressed through UNESCO’s Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD).
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    Remittances during crises: implications for humanitarian response

    Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2007
    Remittances, or migrants sending money home, are an important part of many people’s lives around the world. Relatively little is known, however, about the role that remittances play in crises.
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    Young people's forum: Disasters and the aftermath: building young people’s life skills for health and education: country consultations summary report

    UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office, 2007
    Young people in Indonesia, Pakistan and Thailand have been confronted in the past few years with a series of disasters of tremendous proportions. This paper reports on a regional forum on Disasters and the Aftermath held in Bangkok from April 30 - May 5, which aimed to engage young people from these three countries as active participants in dealing with future disasters.
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    Advancing the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

    John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2007
    This report examines the benefits that a resource-rich country can derive from endorsing the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and implementing its Principles. It also searches for courses of action that the EITI Board can pursue to persuade more countries to endorse EITI. Both issues are investigated in the context of Angola, Indonesia, and Trinidad and Tobago.

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