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    Maid to order: ending abuses against migrant domestic workers in Singapore

    Human Rights Watch, 2005
    This report presents research carried out on the abusive conditions facing many domestic workers in Singapore.
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    What happened to child labour in Indonesia during the economic crisis: the trade-off between school and work

    SMERU Research Institute, Indonesia, 2005
    Although lower than other developing countries at a similar stage of development, the problem of child labour in Indonesia is significant. Child labour perpetuates poverty. The link between current child labour and future poverty appears to be a lack of adequate and appropriate education.
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    A reassessment of inequality and its role in poverty reduction in Indonesia

    SMERU Research Institute, Indonesia, 2005
    Whilst economic growth is essential for the development of a country, the quality of growth - for instance who benefits from it, whether it is equally distributed and whether is helps the poor escape poverty, is also important. Before the onset of the economic crisis in 1997, Indonesia experienced high economic growth.
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    Disability, poverty, and schooling in developing countries: results from 11 household surveys

    World Bank, 2005
    This paper analyses the relationship between whether a young person has a disability, the poverty status of their household, and their school participation.
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    Time to close gender gaps in land and schooling

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    In rural societies parents help the future welfare of their children by passing down land and providing education. They do not necessarily offer them to both sons and daughters equally. Improving the distribution of income and resources between men and women requires policies to improve girls’ access to education and expand women’s opportunities to earn income.
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    Can leprosy be eliminated by a single global campaign?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    In 1991 the World Health Assembly set a target to eliminate leprosy by the year 2000. The disease, which still caries a stigma, damages the skin and nerve endings and leads to ulcers and disability. A major World Health Organisation campaign has provided antibiotics to treat the disease in a number of countries. However a number of new cases have appeared in previously low priority countries.
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    Paying its way: can tourism generate funds for protected areas?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Tourism is continuing to grow rapidly. Regions in developing countries with high levels of biodiversity are seeing the greatest growth. Protected areas are increasingly attractive to tourists and some conservation areas, traditionally supported by government funding, are raising significant income through tourism.
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    Bringing together humanitarian and human rights agencies to protect IDPs

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    According to the United Nations (UN) there are close to 25 million internally displaced people (IDPs) in around fifty countries. When national governments fail to protect IDPs who should step in? In the absence of a single UN agency with a mandate to assist these people, can humanitarian and human rights agencies work together?
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    Agriculture heals the wounds of conflict

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Many developing countries are recovering from different humanitarian crises: genocide in Cambodia, civil war in Rwanda, famine in North Korea, conflict in Palestine and Afghanistan, the tsunami in Indonesia. A new report suggests that agricultural development can help countries to recover from violent conflicts and natural disasters.
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    Why trends of protection changed over time in Indonesia?

    Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2002
    In the 1980s Indonesia experienced a declining trend of trade protection. In contrast to the cycle of trade protection approach which argues that protectionism is likely to be strongest when a country’s economic position is weak, major trade reforms in Indonesia took place after the mid 1980s economic crisis.

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