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  Social protection in the informal economy: home-based women workers and outsourced manufacturing in Asia

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2002

  This paper draws on surveys carried out in five Asian countries (India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, and Philippines) where home-based work (HBW) is widespread. It examines characteristics of home workers and, in particular, conditions of women as home workers.
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  Social protection in the informal economy: home-based women workers and outsourced manufacturing in Asia

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2002

  There has been an increasing ?informalisation? of the labour force in developing countries over the past few decades. This means that increasing numbers of workers are engaged in unregulated, uncontracted work which is often casual or temporary in nature. Simultaneously there has been greater participation of women in the labour market.
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  Social safety nets for women

  United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2003

  At times of crisis, such as the Asian financial crisis of 1997/8, women often strategise to increase household income, for example by selling goods. Yet, as this paper notes, insufficient attention has been paid to the fact that women are often excluded from formal social safety net programmes.
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  Slipping through the net: can poor people benefit from the international fisheries trade?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  The global export value of fisheries products is around €60 billion annually and growing. This trade has significant implications for poor people in Asia, where fisheries provide food and income for poor, marginalised people.
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  Future characteristics of the elderly in developing countries and their implications for policy

  Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2006

  This paper generates profiles of the elderly to 2050 on key characteristics for a set of thirteen developing countries that vary by region, size, economic level, and cultural traditions. Findings show dramatic shifts in the educational attainment and family size of the elderly over the next 30-40 years.
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  Private sector education in Indonesia

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Indonesia has embarked on a national decentralisation programme of government and social services. State policy commits to joint educational provision - both state and private. The private sector is the predominant provider at secondary level - particularly to the disadvantaged sections of the community.
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  Monitoring Corruption: evidence from a field experiment in indonesia

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2005

  Based on a field experiment in Indonesia, this paper examines approaches to reducing corruption.
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  NAMA state of play: countries negotiation positions

  South Centre, 2006

  This note presents, in a schematic form, the negotiating positions of selected WTO Members or Groups of Members, with particular focus on Non- Agricultural Market Access (NAMA). The Members or Groups of Members selcted are:United StatesEuropean CommissionJapan, NorwayKoreaCanada, N.
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  Sick of local government corruption? vote Islamic

  Brown University, 2006

  This paper asks whether the local democratisation that occurred in Indonesia after Suharto reduced corruption and whether specific local politics, over and above the effects of local culture, affect corruption.The paper finds that:overall, corruption declines between 2001-2004 Islamic parties in Indonesia are perceived as being anti-corruptionvoting patterns reflect this belief
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  Policies for private sector development in Indonesia

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2006

  This discussion paper provides a historical overview of private sector development in Indonesia focusing on two elements of the private sector:the foreign investment sub-sector in view of its expected role in revitalising the Indonesian economythe SME sub-sector which, despite its great potential and importance for the Indonesian economy, has not developed as expected.The autho

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