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  South Asian Yearbook of Trade & Development

  Centre for Trade and Development, 2005

  This publication is a comprehensive collection of twelve research papers on trade- related topics relevant to the development concerns of South Asian countries (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka).
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  Migrants lack information on UK banks’ remittance services

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Money sent by migrants to their families is the second largest financial flow to the developing world, after foreign direct investment. However, there is little information on remittance products and services available to migrants.  A new project ‘Sending Money Home?’ based in the UK, aims to fill this gap and make money transfers easier for those on a low income.
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  Ending legalised violence against children: report for South Asia Regional Consultation

  Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children, 2005

  This report reviews law and policy in relation to corporal punishment of children in South Asia.The report shows that children in eight countries in the South Asia region are not fully protected under assault laws, despite the clear international human rights standard that children should be protected equally with adults.
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  Strategic gender interventions and poverty reduction: principles and practice

  Gender Mainstreaming Programme in Asia, 2004

  This manual has been developed to support the formulation and implementation of poverty reduction projects in Asia. It focuses on identifying strategic gender initiatives to help enhance women’s agency in the household and community.
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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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  Poverty in South Asia 2003: civil society perspectives

  South Asia Alliance for Poverty Alleviation, 2003

  This report examines poverty in South Asia, and examines case studies in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The authors are highly critical of drastic income inequalities in South Asia, and claim that globalisation has generally further increased poverty in the region.
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  Education for all: teacher demand and supply in South Asia

  Education International, 2003

  This working paper examines the place of teachers in the primary education systems of Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
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  Tracking gender equity under economic reforms: continuity and change in South Asia

  International Development Research Centre, 2003

  This book develops a new framework for gender analysis by demonstrating the importance of identifying the context of such analysis, and by highlighting the necessity of differentiating ‘gender’ per se from its various ‘indicators’.
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  Adolescent and youth reproductive health in the Asia and Near East Region: status, issues, policies, and programs

  Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2004

  This paper presents the findings of a series of assessments of adolescent and youth reproductive health conducted by the Policy Project in 13 countries in the Asia and Near East (ANE) region.
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  Social Policy in an Era of Trade Intensification: A Perspective from Asian Women

  Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, 2002

  This is the second in a series of three comprehensive economic literacy packets produced by the Asia Network of the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN). The IGTN aims to engage with the global women's movement to raise awareness of the relationship between gender relations and macroeonomic and trade polices.

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