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  Marketing water and sanitation to poor people

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Selling water and sanitation is like any other business. Managers need to keep the customers satisfied, increase market share and maximise revenues. However, water utilities currently fail to consider poor customers. Fixed managerial practices and engineering standards prevent consideration of how to extend coverage to people in informal settlements.
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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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  Women in the Global Economy

  International Trade Centre, 2003

  Women make up the majority of entrepreneurs in 'marginal' economic areas such as micro enterprises and the informal economy. But these make up a large percentage of total economic activity in many poor countries. Yet women's roles as producers and consumers of goods and services and providers of employment are often invisible.
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  Quick Notes on Gender Dimensions of Private Sector Development and Gender Entrepreneurship Markets

  EdInvest, International Finance Corporation, 2004

  Entrepreneurial women have engaged with private markets in diverse ways. These Quick Notes outline particular issues faced by women entrepreneurs and include best practice solutions in a range of countries and regions. Success stories from China, Jordan, South Africa, India, Mexico, New Zealand and Nepal highlight diverse ways in which women have engaged in private sector markets.
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  Nepal's Maoists: their aims, structure and stratergy

  International Crisis Group, 2005

  This background document seeks to address the political aims, structure and strategy of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists). It analyses the organisation, politics and armed struggle surrounding ten years of armed Maoist insurgency.Drawing on interviews, documents and analysis the paper pieces together a broad understanding of the Maoist movement and its aims.
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  Educating the world’s children: patterns of growth and inequality

  Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2005

  This study employs multiple sources of data and innovative analytic tools to project when 70 poor countries, given current and historical trends, are likely to achieve the goal of universal primary education.
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  Migration, poverty and development in Nepal

  United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2004

  High unemployment rates compel Nepalese people to migrate within and outside the country in search of better opportunities of livelihood.
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  Internal migration in Nepal

  Central Department of Population Studies, Nepal, 2003

  Migration is a component of population change that can change the size, growth and other characteristics of the population both in sending and receiving areas. This paper discusses internal migration of native born population in Nepal, primarily based on the data collected during the 2001 census.
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  Gender, Water and Development

  Berg Publishers, 2005

  There is a renewed global commitment to 'water for all'. Yet even though women are usually responsible for domestic water provision, their needs and voices continue to be marginalised in the development process.
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  The CNGO project experience lessons learned

  Canada Nepal Gender in Organizations Project, 2004

  This report documents the lessons learnt on the Canada Nepal Gender in Organizations Project (CNGO) which aimed to increase awareness, dialogue, and action on the inequalities facing women in Nepal.

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