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  Adolescent and youth reproductive health in the Asia and Near East Region: status, issues, policies, and programs

  Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2004

  This paper presents the findings of a series of assessments of adolescent and youth reproductive health conducted by the Policy Project in 13 countries in the Asia and Near East (ANE) region.
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  Food security and the millennium development goal on hunger in Asia

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper provides an overview of food security issues in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, China, Indonesia, Cambodia and Vietnam.It identifies the key issues relating to food security in Asia, setting out progress and the prospects for achieving the MDG on hunger and analysing how these issues are likely to develop in 10 to 25 years time, in par
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  Age structural transition and economic growth: evidence from south and southeast Asia

  Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2002

  This paper looks at the nature and process of age structural transition in the countries of South and Southeast Asia and its influence on economic growth.
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  Intellectual and cultural property rights of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Asia

  Minority Rights Group International, 2003

  This report looks at efforts by the UN and governments to protect indigenous and tribal heritage from exploitation; the pressures on governments to allow exploitation of indigenous knowledge; the many initiatives taken by Asian indigenous and tribal peoples to protect their heritage; and the effects of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the Trade-Related Aspects of International
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  Mangroves: local livelihoods vs. corporate profits

  World Rainforest Movement, 2003

  This book gathers a selection of articles published in the monthly electronic bulletin of the World Rainforest Movement (WRM), addressing the issue of the processes leading to the destruction of mangrove forests and the struggles developed at the local and global levels to protect and use these forests in a socially equitable and environmentally adequate manner.The articles give an overview of
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  Social Policy in an Era of Trade Intensification: A Perspective from Asian Women

  Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, 2002

  This is the second in a series of three comprehensive economic literacy packets produced by the Asia Network of the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN). The IGTN aims to engage with the global women's movement to raise awareness of the relationship between gender relations and macroeonomic and trade polices.
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  Trade Intensification in Asia Economies: What it Means to Women's Work

  Women and Gender Institute, 2002

  This is the first in a series of three comprehensive economic literacy packets produced by the Asia Network of the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN). The IGTN aims to engage with the global women's movement to raise awareness of the relationship between gender relations and macroeonomic and trade polices.
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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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  Distance education for basic education in the E9 countries

  2002

  This paper explores the successes or otherwise of the use of distance education to increase levels of basic education in the E-9 countries which share similar issues in terms of high population and relatively low levels of basic education completion.The document details the ways in which countries have used distance education:it has occasionally been used either as an alternative to fo
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  Draft ministerial declaration: proposal from a group of developing countries.

  World Trade Organization, 2001

  Draft proposal by a grouping of less developed and developing countries for a declaration at the fourth WTO ministerial conference in Doha, Qatar. Outlines the general position of those countries with respect to implementation of the TRIPS agreement. The same URL has links to the contrasting developed countries draft proposal along with reporting on the discussion.

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