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    Better teaching practices raise pupil achievement in Pakistan

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    An important way to improve student achievement is to improve weak teaching. What factors are the most important for improving teaching – teachers’ resumé characteristics (their training, qualifications and experience) or their classroom practices.
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    Strong public-private sector partnerships can help to reduce undernutrition

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Global progress towards reducing undernutrition has been made through enlightened public policies, targeted development assistance, private sector actions and commitments from civil society. Yet every year, the deaths of more than 3.5 million children under the age of 5 can be attributed to undernutrition.
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    Approaches to rural poverty alleviation in developing Asia: role of water resources

    Poverty Research Unit, Sussex, 2008
    Focusing on water resources and irrigation, this paper documents a talk by Michael Lipton exploring approaches to poverty alleviation in developing Asia. The talk discusses the findings of a recent paper ‘Pro-poor intervention strategies in irrigated agriculture in Asia: poverty in irrigated agriculture - realities, issues, and options with guidelines’.
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    A note on competitiveness and structural transformation in Pakistan

    Asian Development Bank, 2007
    Pakistan’s structural transformation has been slower than that of other Asian countries. Discussing recent research on growth and structural transformation as well as analytical tools for policy makers, this note finds that:
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    The burden of typhoid in five Asian countries

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Typhoid fever remains a public health problem in developing countries in Asia. One control strategy is vaccination in high-risk areas. Before introducing the vaccines, however, updated data is needed for countries with high occurrence of typhoid.
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    Lessons from water and sanitation mapping in Africa and South Asia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Mapping provides clear information on access to water and sanitation in poor countries. This information can be used by citizens to demand better services and by local governments to improve service delivery. What lessons can be learnt from the use of mapping in WaterAid’s country programmes?
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    Helping the families of home-based workers break the cycle of poverty

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    In Asia there are millions of home-based women workers and the vast majority are poor. How can the risks and vulnerabilities these women face be reduced? And what can be done to help the children of home-based workers escape poverty?
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    Gender, Environment, Conflict - Special Issue Newsletter, Civilian Crisis Prevention - Environment and Natural Resources 2008

    Environment Conflict and Cooperation, 2007
    The linkages between gender, environment and conflict have so far not been studied in detail. Environmental changes and conflicts impact men and women differently because of their gender roles and socio-cultural situation. More often than not, environmental degradation and the consequences of climate change or natural disasters reinforce existing gender inequalities.
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    New health systems challenge to build trust and spread knowledge

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    In many parts of Asia and sub-Saharan Africa there is a growing gap between official accounts of how health systems operate and realities on the ground. Many countries have developed innovations to fit a changing health care landscape where informal markets and different sources of information play an increasingly important role.
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    Afghanistan and regional instability: a risk assessment

    Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2008
    This report examines Afghanistan’s regional challenges. It finds that domestic instability in Pakistan, strains in Pakistan–Afghanistan relations and insecurities associated with the US–Iran stand-off on Iran’s nuclear programme continue to pose the most significant regional risks to the stability of Afghanistan.

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