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  Looking for a quick fix: how weak social auditing is keeping workers in sweatshops

  Clean Clothes Campaign, 2005

  This report argues that social audits as they are currently carried out often fail to deliver as a tool for checking working conditions in facilities producing garments and sports shoes.
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  First language first: community-based literacy programmes for minority language contexts in Asia

  Education Sector, UNESCO, 2005

  This comprehensive report is the outcome of the Regional Workshop on Mother Tongue/Bilingual Literacy Programmes for Ethnic Minorities held in Kunming, China (May 2004). This workshop presented findings from UNESCOs action research on using the mother tongue/bilingual approach in pilot literacy projects for ethnic minority communities.
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  Pro-poor growth in the 1990s: lessons and insights from 14 countries

  World Bank, 2005

  This paper is based on a study designed to better understand the options for policymakers to increase the impact of growth on poverty reduction and how they vary depending on policies and country conditions.
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  Overview of the community based monitoring system (CBMS)

  Micro Impacts of Macroeconomic and Adjustment Policies Programme, 2005

  This paper provides an overview of Community Based Monitoring Systems (CBMS), and examines the different aspects of implementing a community based monitoring system, using a case study of CBMS implementation in the Philippines.Growing demand for a regular source of up-to-date information that is disaggregated at the community level has led to the creation of a CBMS.
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  On the same side – public-private partnerships in TB control

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Many developing country governments are struggling to control the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic. Public-private partnerships are a practical way to increase TB control capacity and improve the quality of private sector care. Researchers from the UK Nuffield Institute for Health propose a process for developing new partnership models, using Bangladesh as an example.
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  The MNPI study: measures of strength for maternal health programs in 55 developing countries

  Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2004

  This paper, produced by the POLICY Project, reports on research relating to the Maternal and Neonatal Program Effort Index (MNPI), a standardised assessment instrument designed to measure the strength and character of government programmes to improve maternal and newborn health. The index was applied during 1999 and 2002, to 49 and 55 developing countries respectively.
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  Is Asia losing the fight against hunger?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  The first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) seeks to halve the proportion of people suffering from hunger. In the Asia-Pacific region only seven developing countries are on track. Almost two-thirds of the world’s undernourished live in Asia. India – where one in five people are undernourished – has more undernourished people than the whole of Africa.
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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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  Multiple public-private job-holding of health care providers in developing countries: an exploration of theory and evidence

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2004

  This review examines the systemic and individual causes of multiple jobholding (MJH) and evidence on its prevalence through an analysis of country-level conditions. The paper places MJH in the context of health systems and government policies in low and middle-income countries, including Zambia, Indonesia, Egypt, Bangladesh, India, Poland, Kenya and Mexico.
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  Labour migration in Asia: trends, challenges and policy responses in countries of origin

  International Organization for Migration, 2003

  This book explores the new patterns and trends that are emerging in labour migration in Asia, which are affected by not just the labour market, but also national and social circumstances.

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