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  Diversification and livelihood options: a study of two villages in Andhra Pradesh, India, 1975–2001

  Overseas Development Institute, 2002

  This paper reports on findings of research that has taken place in Andhra Pradesh, namely a re-survey of two villages, Aurepalle and Dokur, in the Andhra Pradesh district of Mahbubnagar.
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  Of flying geeks and o-rings: locating software and IT services in India's economic development

  OECD Development Centre, 2003

  This paper offers an analytical framework for understanding the evolution of India’s software industry and its place in the broader economy.
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  Hands not land: how livelihoods are changing in rural Bangladesh

  Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2002

  This book provides some ideas for development practitioners on how to approach the challenge of the eradication of poverty in Bangladesh. Its origins lie in a study of rural livelihoods commissioned in 2000-2001 by DFID UKThis book is an overview of research papers that examine the life and livelihoods of people living in rural Bangladesh.
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  NGOs and the Internet in Nepal

  Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 2003

  The number of registered NGOs in Nepal has skyrocketed in the last ten years, growing in number from 220 in 1990 to somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 today. At the same time, the Internet and the use of e-mail has increased rapidly.
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  Failing the challenge: the other Shell report 2002

  Friends of the Earth, 2003

  This campaign document presents itself as an alternative to Shell's own sustainability report.
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  Mainstreaming adaptation to climate change in least developed countries (LDCs)

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003

  Adaptation to climate change has become an important policy priority in the international
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  Communities facing the HIV/AIDS challenge: from crisis to opportunity, from community vulnerability to community resilience

  HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 2002

  This paper discusses 'community resilience' to HIV/AIDS and ways of promoting it.
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  Measuring child poverty and health: a new international study

  Young Lives, 2002

  This working paper introduces the research plan of an international cohort study on child poverty and health.The study will follow up children born into poverty (plus a small number of non-poor for comparative purposes) in Ethiopia, Vietnam, Peru, and the state of Andhra Pradesh in India.
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  The IMF-World Bank plan for Sri Lanka: will it help or hinder South Asian success?

  Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, 2003

  Paper critical of the PRSP process in Sri Lanka arguing that the draft document as it stands could lead to a reversal of Sri Lanka’s impressive record on economic growth and social development and that the process through which the PRSP was drafted and approved raises serious questions about the opportunities for public input.In three areas in particular - privatization, land law reform, and la
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  Nijera Shikhi and adult literacy

  Eldis Education Resource Guide, 2003

  This report looks at the efficiency and effectiveness of Nijera Shikhi’s (a people's literacy movement in Bangladesh) activities in adult literacy on:learners five years after the completion of their course in the Tarash area where it operated more as a People’s Movement, andlearners about a year after the completing of their course in the Barisal area where it operated more as an NGO

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