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  Cancelling the caps: Why the EFA movement must confront wage bill caps now

  ActionAid International, 2006

  IMF loan criteria are currently threatening the achievement of Education for All, this paper contends. While EFA and MDG initiatives have resulted in a rapid expansion of the numbers of children in education, agreements between 18 developing countries and the IMF that cap the public sector wage bill are preventing the recruitment of new teachers.
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  Political parties in South Asia: the challenge of change

  International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance / International IDEA, 2007

  This paper provides a comparative view of the conditions, roles and functioning of political parties in five countries of the South Asian region – Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. The publication builds on empirical information collected from 49 parties and addresses the challenges of politics as experienced by the key political actors themselves: the political parties.
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  Human rights and dignity of Dalit women: report of the conference in the Hague, 20-25 November 2006

  India Committee of the Netherlands, 2006

  This report summarises the proceedings and the outcomes the 1st Conference on the Rights of Dalit Women held in The Hague, Netherlands.
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  Report of proceedings and recommendations of conference on disaster preparedness and mitigation in developing countries

  Human Resource Development Network, 2006

  This paper reports on the seminars and workshops delivered during a one-day conference on disaster preparedness and mitigation in Pakistan.The conference sought to formulate policy recommendations for disaster preparedness and mitigation, and to share these recommendations with key stakeholders.
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  Children in the ranks: the Maoists’ use of child soldiers in Nepal

  Human Rights Watch, 2007

  Though a peace agreement was signed between the Nepali government and the Maoist rebel movement in late 2006, Maoist forces have failed to release the children in their ranks and in fact continue to recruit them.
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  Closing the gap: pathways out of poverty

  Bundesministerium fur wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung, 2006

  With a focus on German governmental and non-governmental organisations this BMZ paper explores the causes of poverty and highlights key strategies in delivering poverty reduction.Case studies from Bolivia, Tanzania, Cambodia, Uganda, Nepal and Burkina Faso give examples of how different German actors are supporting countries’ efforts to tackle poverty with short sections looking at the role of
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  'Too much care' threatens maternal health

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Whilst the major focus of international advocacy and policy for maternal health is on enabling women to have access to skilled care during pregnancy and childbirth, some women face severe morbidity, even death, from an excess of maternity care.
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  The implications of horizontal inequality for Aid

  Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity, CRISE, Oxford University, 2006

  This paper argues that the reduction of Horizontal Inequalities (HIs), or inequalities between culturally defined groups, should inform aid policy in heterogeneous countries with severe HIs.
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  Far from the city: child labour in Nepal

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Many children in developing countries have to work, but child labour has long-term effects on the ability of developing countries to reduce poverty. How many children there are in each family, and how close they live to cities, can shape the type of work they do and the education they receive.
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  Towards pro-poor innovation: putting public value into science and technology

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  We live in a rapidly changing world. Technological advances are increasing productivity and income, quality of life and life expectancy… in the developed world, that is. The truth is that technological development is focused on meeting the wants of rich consumers. Scant attention is paid to the vital needs of people in the developing world.

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