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    LSMS data quality in Maoist influenced areas of Nepal

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2007
    The Maoist party of Nepal started the People's war in 1996, and gradually extended their influence in the rural areas. Eight years into the war, in 2003/04, the Central Bureau of Statistics, in collaboration with the World Bank, conducted the second round of the Nepal Living Standards Survey (NLSS2).
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    Liberated bonded laborers: are they better off? Welfare and efficiency implications of an agricultural reform in Western Terai, Nepal

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2007
    What are the welfare effects of a ban on permanent labour contracts for bonded labourers (kamaiyas) in Western Terai, Nepal? This paper evaluates whether the living conditions of the kamaiyas have improved after kamaiya contracts were forbidden in 2000. The ban was credibly enforced and within a short time the number of bonded labourers was reduced significantly.
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    Review of the Embassy’ development assistance portfolio regarding increased focus on environmental aspects: greening of the portfolio

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2007
    The review was undertaken by the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Kathmandu and assesses the Embassy’s portfolio of Norad assisted development projects to identify possible ways and means of addressing / integrating appropriate environmental concerns into existing programmes and projects.
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    Evaluation of Norwegian power-related assistance

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2007
    The document provides an evaluation of the Norwegian power-related assistance programmes particularly in Nepal and Mozambique, however occasionally it also refers to case studies from Angola and Uganda.
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    Gender action plans and gender equality results: rapid gender assessments of ADB Projects. Synthesis report

    Asian Development Bank, 2007
    The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) 1998 Gender and Development (GAD) policy identified gender mainstreaming as a key strategy for addressing gender inequity. Project-specific gender action plans (GAPs) were introduced as a mechanism to implement the policy.
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    Advances in participatory forest management in South Asia: learning from field experience in Bhutan, India and Nepal

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2007
    Community participation in natural resource management and ecosystem conservation has been widely practised during the last two decades in countries of the Himalayan region, particularly in Nepal, India, and Bhutan. However, success and growth has brought with it new issues of governance, forest management, marketing, and equity.
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    The role of NGOs in conflict and peace-building

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Non-government organisations (NGOs) have become increasingly involved in the international response to armed conflict, some aiming to mitigate the effects of war and others to help end the violence. But what impacts do they have, and how could they be improved?
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    Child labor, urban proximity and household composition

    Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2006
    What is the relationship between child labour and urban proximity? Using detailed survey data from Nepal, this paper examines the determinants of child labour with a special emphasis on urban proximity.
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    Global Corruption Report 2007

    Transparency International, 2007
    This year’s report concentrates on judicial systems and warns that corruption is undermining judicial systems around the world, denying citizens access to justice and the basic human right to a fair and impartial trial. The report provides comparative analysis of judicial corruption based on 32 country reports and provides
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    Review of the embassy’s development assistance portfolio regarding increased focus on environmental aspects

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2007
    This paper provides a review of the Norwegian Embassy in Kathmandu’s development assistance portfolio, identifying how it can integrate environmental concerns into current agreements, within the present framework and budgets, and for possible future phases of the various programmes.

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