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  The UK White Paper on International Development - and Beyond

  Overseas Development Institute, 1998

  In November 1997, the British Government published its long-awaited White Paper on international development, the first comprehensive statement on British aid for 22 years. It has been widely welcomed as a significant shift in the orientation of British development policy and as a marker for other donors.
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  Discussion Paper on Sustainability of Sexual and Reproductive Health Programmes

  International Planned Parenthood Federation, 1996

  Brief overview of concepts
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  Health and well being [gender issues]

  BRIDGE, 1998

  Tracks the shift of health policy debates from a focus on 'women's health' to a broader vision of gender and health. This reaches beyond reproductive rights to include the health needs of both men and women over their life-course. Reports on innovative sexual health programmes, showing how understandings of gender relations and masculinity can be translated into effective action.
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  Ethical Trading Initiatives and Forest Dependent People

  Ethical Trade and Natural Resources Programme, NRI, 1998

  Discusses some of the schemes that promote environmentally sustainable trade in forest products and highlights some concerns about their impact on forest dependent people. The trading chains of many forest products, particularly non-timber forest products, are highly complex and people are involved in the marketing of these products in a variety of ways.
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  Productivity Improvement and Labour Relations in the Tea Industry in South Asia

  Sectoral Activities Programme, ILO, 1996

  Examines recent experience in productivity improvement schemes in South Asia tea plantations, with particular attention to labour productivity.Recalls the importance of tea production in Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka, in terms of employment and foreign exchange earnings. Detailed information is provided on the cost account of tea production. Tea is a labour-intensive industry.
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  Male Responsibility for Reproductive Health

  Gender-aids, 1998

  Summary of USAID Gender Working Group Men and Reproductive Health Committee meeting on inclusive approaches that can serve men's and women's needs, and can contribute to gender equity.
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  HIV and Infant Feeding: A Chronology of Research and Policy Advances and their Implications for Programs

  Support for Analysis and Research in Africa, USAID, 1997
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  Costs of Adolescent Childbearing: A Review of Evidence from Chile, Barbados, Guatemala and Mexico

  1998

  The region is plagued by persistent poverty. Does early childbearing perpetuate it? What are the social and economic impacts of adolescent childbearing on mothers and children?
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  Fashion victims: The Asian garment industry and globalisation

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 1998

  Report looks at the impact of globalisation on the lives of garment workers in Asia. Urban Missionaries, a CAFOD partner in the Philippines, carried out research on the increasing use of temporary contracts in the garment industry. In Sri Lanka, People’s Forum for Development Alternatives (PEFDA) interviewed workers in the Kandy and Kurunegala areas.
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  The Changing Global Distribution of Malaria: A Review

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 1999

  Organized efforts to reduce the burden of malaria are as old as human societies. Understanding the historical relationships between humankind and malaria is important for natural and social scientists studying the disease, as well as policy makers trying to control it. Malaria once extended widely throughout the old world, reaching as far north as 64ºN latitude and as far south as 32ºS latitude.

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