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  Left on the back burner: time to put energy onto the urban planning agenda?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Could more efficient use of energy have an impact on poverty alleviation? What changes in energy use patterns are likely to generate the greatest benefits for the poor? What are the constraints on the uptake of energy efficiency measures? Can they be overcome?
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  Fighting disaster: reducing risk in cities

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  How can links between disaster mitigation and urban planning be strengthened? Can urban livelihood strategies reduce poor city dwellers’ vulnerability to disaster? Scant attention is currently paid by relief organisations to urban planning and disaster mitigation, according to a recent Care International report.
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  Trouble in the air for food production as urban pollution hits rural development

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Concern over air pollution has traditionally been focused on urban situations.
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  The rise of the environmental refugee: nightmare in the making?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Is environmental degradation set to create new waves of displaced people seeking asylum in the north? Will refugee camps and shantytowns foster civil disorder, pandemics and political extremism to threaten the interests of the developed world? Or is the concept of ‘environmental refugee’ a dangerous distraction from central issues of development and conflict resolution?
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  Rights for the world's evicted. Are development projects harming people they're meant to help?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  In the current decade, 10 million people a year have been displaced (forced to move) by development projects intended to improve their lives. The evidence is clear that such displacement, caused by large-scale dam, infrastructure and urban regeneration projects, has had unforeseen and damaging results.
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  Poverty and the environment: measuring the links

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  The relationship between poverty and environment is complex. This complexity often leads to inadequate understanding and policy responses. Can indicators be developed that encompass both poverty reduction objectives and improvements to the environment? Can such indicators play a role in developing a better understanding of poverty-environment relationships?
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  The economics of gender inequality: towards gender responsive budgeting

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Are budgets and revenue systems as gender neutral as they may appear to be? Can gender be incorporated into economic governance? How can women and civil society organisations be more involved in preparing budgets, scrutinising expenditure and collecting and analysing macroeconomic data that is disaggregated by sex?
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  Child labor and school decisions in urban and rural areas: cross-country evidence

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper simultaneously examines a list of determinants of child schooling and employment decisions to enable the identification of factors that are more important than others while investigating their pertinence across countries and urban and rural areas within a given country.
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  Jessore and Tongi: urban livelihoods in the slums

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This profile reports on surveys conducted by IFPRI and CARE in an examination of urban poverty in different settings in Bangladesh.
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  Policy processes: an annotated bibliography on policy processes, with particular emphasis on India

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  The bibliography contains 132 entries on policy processes generally, and another 64 on India. Almost two thirds of the 196 entries are annotated. All entries have keywords and there is an index of keywords at the end. The entries are rigorously selected to include information of the broadest range, most up to date and most relevant to India.This bibliography focuses on public policy processes.

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