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    Adapting to climate change – how do poor people cope?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Climate change will increase the gaps between developed and developing countries, in terms of wealth, health and food security. This will make achieving goals to reduce poverty more difficult.
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    Nepal: looking beyond Kathmandu: challenges and opportunities for building peace from below

    Europe External Policy Advisors, 2007
    This document reports on a conference on “Nepal: looking beyond Kathmandu: challenges and opportunities for peacebuilding from below", held in Brussels in April 2007.
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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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    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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    How donors fail at educating children in conflict-torn states

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Even in times of conflict, education is a basic human right. Yet out of the world’s 77 million children out of school, half live in conflict-affected fragile states – a disproportionate number. Why are these children losing out on attending school and what is needed to rectify this situation?
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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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    Economic and social structures that may explain the recent conflicts in the Terai of Nepal

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2007
    This document attempts to explain the present ethnic-based conflict in the Terai of Nepal by deeper social and economic structures. Based on previous research on the village economies of Terai the authors describe the main socio-economic structures, and discuss to what extent the Terai movement represent the socially, and economically, excluded people.
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    The high cost of unsafe abortion

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Every eight minutes a woman dies somewhere in a developing country due to complications from an unsafe abortion. She most likely had little money or support to obtain safe services. She probably first tried to induce a termination herself. Failing that she would have turned to an unskilled, but relatively inexpensive, provider.
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    Corporate social responsibility and children’s rights in South Asia

    Save the Children [Sweden], 2007
    This document presents examples of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives within the context of children's issues in India, Nepal and Bangladesh. According to the study, CSR initiatives for children have a positive impact and in some cases can be more effective than Government or NGO led initiatives.
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    Nepal's troubled Tarai region

    International Crisis Group, 2007
    Unrest in the Tarai plains has exposed the weaknesses of Nepal’s peace process, could derail forthcoming elections for a constituent assembly and, if not properly addressed, could start a new form of conflict, this report warns. It describes how demands for political representation cut to the heart of the peace deal and constitutional process, as well as posing a direct challeng

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