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    City politics. A voice for the poor?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    By 2020 the world’s urban population is set to rise by almost 1.5 billion. Cities and towns house an increasing proportion of poor people, partly because of the increased share of urban population of the total but also because economic recession and adjustment policies often hit poorer urban residents the worst.
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    Women, reproductive health and the private sector in India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What are the biggest health problems for women? Is the current emphasis on reproductive health correct? Where do women go for healthcare? Researchers from the Indian Institute of Management and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine investigated women’s health in Karnataka State, India.
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    e-Governance: can it lead to better government?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What is e-governance? Can information and communication technologies (ICTs) contribute to the achievement of good governance goals? What are the implications for development? Why, when there is so much promise, do many e- governance initiatives go wrong? Can the gulf between the connected and the un-connected be bridged?
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    Disentangling chronic and transitory poverty

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Do anti-poverty programme designers understand the degree to which temporary shocks can have permanent effects on vulnerable households? How can we distinguish between, and measure, chronic and transitory poverty? What policies are needed to disrupt intergenerationally transmitted poverty?
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    Logframe alternatives: an actor-oriented approach to planning, monitoring and evaluation

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Current methodologies in planning, monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) of natural resources projects often emphasise short-term and quantifiable outputs. These make up important components of conventional log frames. Little serious attention is given to the effects of projects on the strengthening of sustainable local research and development (R&D) capabilities.
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    Kid’s stuff? Lessons in participation from Bangalore

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Can children get involved in decision-making? Can the idealism of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Habitat Agenda of the 1996 Cities Summit be used to shape projects working with young people living in urban environments, given that 39 per cent of the world’s population is under 20?
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    Not just "women" - better gender analysis for health sector programme support

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    New approaches to healthcare funding often rely on outdated attitudes to gender. How can donors ensure that gender analysis is effective? Should they move beyond a narrow focus on women as a separate group? Researchers from the UK University of Manchester argue for a new approach to gender in healthcare funding.
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    Beyond the digital divide: harnessing ICTs for rural development

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Could information and communication technologies (ICTs) help make markets work for the rural poor and transform current patterns of inequitable access to information? What are the prospects for implementing decentralised control and capacity building in the management of information resources? What is the role of the private sector in building pro- development information systems?
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    Liberalisation is good for poverty alleviation, but how can we help the losers?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Trade liberalisation generally reduces poverty. However, even the staunchest pro- liberalisers recognise that the move from closed to open economies is inherently stressful. What is ‘liberalisation-induced poverty’? How can the transitional and long- term victims of liberalisation be identified and supported? Can market institutions become more pro-poor?
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    Labour in vain? Training traditional birth attendants in Bangladesh

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Childbirth still carries a high risk for women in many developing countries. Aid agencies have promoted hygiene training for traditional birth attendants to reduce the chance of infection and death among mothers. But is this training effective?

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