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  The body [chapter in ‘Voices of the poor: crying out for change’]

  World Bank, 2000

  While it is recognised that poverty and poor health are closely linked, it is rare that the poor have the opportunity to voice their own experiences with respect to health issues. Poor people from across the world described their own health experiences in the World Bank's 'Voices of the Poor', a multi-country study of poor people's experiences of poverty.
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  Rural electrification: a hard look at costs and benefits

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995

  In a study of rural electrification (RE) in Asia, OED notes that while RE projects supported by the World Bank have had a satisfactory record overall, their economic returns have been considerably lower than projected. Also a wide range of expected indirect and external benefits have not materialised.The report does note some successes.
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  Information management strategy formation in Northern development NGOs

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2003

  This paper explores how Information Management (IM) strategies are formed in NNGOs.The paper argues that critical analysis of the literature on NGO management and strategy in development cooperation reveals the strategic significance of IM for NNGOs and results in the identification of seven Strategic Information Management Themes of NNGOs (SIMToNs).
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  Human rights and democracy in Bangladesh: a plan for Norwegian support

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2001

  The main purpose of this report is to identify priority areas for future Norwegian support to human rights and democracy in Bangladesh.
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  Reaching the unreached: how can we use ICTs to empower the rural poor in the developing world through enhanced access to relevant information?

  World Summit on the Information Society, 2002

  This paper responds to the questions often asked of funding agencies and donor governments: should they support ICT activities in their development projects? Should the money be invested in computers and communication devices or will it be better spent on food, shelter, health, and education?This paper argues that the choice need not be 'either or'.
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  Assessment of rural poverty: Asia and the Pacific

  International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2002

  This report argues that land reform, both tenancy reform and redistribution of ceiling surplus lands to the landless, is important to poverty alleviation.The paper argues that in addition to production benefits, land reform helps to change the local political structure by giving more voice to the poor.
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  The subterranean child labour force: subcontracted home based manufacturing in Asia

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2002

  Child labour is widespread in home based manufacturing activities in the informal sector in most developing countries. This form of child labour will not attract the penal provisions of a country’s laws banning child labour.
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  Urban poverty in Bangladesh: the perspective of the Nutritional Surveillance Project

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002

  How can the rising numbers of people living in extreme poverty in the slums of towns and cities in Bangladesh they be raised from poverty?
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  Does micro-credit empower women?: evidence from Bangladesh

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper examines the effects of men’s and women’s participation in group-based micro-credit programs on a large set of qualitative responses to questions that characterise women’s autonomy and gender relations within the household.
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  Maternal mortality in Herat Province, Afghanistan: the need to protect women's rights

  Physicians for Human Rights, 2002

  This paper provides short and long term recommendations for reducing maternal mortality rates in Afghanistan, focusing on survey work in Herat Province.This study finds that women in Herat Province, Afghanistan have an extraordinarily high risk of dying during pregnancy and childbirth and the highest maternal mortality ratio in the world outside of Africa.

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