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  A preliminary assessment of timber requirements for Aceh's reconstruction, and its implications

  Greenomics Indonesia, 2005

  In the aftermath of the tsunami, this study assesses the amount of timber required to provide temporary barrack accommodation, low cost permanent housing and reconstruction of public buildings, as well as for rebuilding the fishing fleet during the emergency response and reconstruction in the Province of Aceh.The study finds :4 to 8 million cubic meters of logs will be needed for the r
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  The role of participation and empowerment in income and poverty dynamics in Indonesia 1993-2000

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004

  This study aims to assess the effects on changes in income and poverty reduction on the basis of belonging to a democratic decision making community, or belonging to a society with a higher degree of participation.To illustrate this, the authors construct an empowerment index and one participation index, and use these to test their assumptions.
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  Half a world: regional inequality in five great federations

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper explores some of the reasons why large groups of the population pull ahead, while equally large groups stay behind within the context of regional (spatial) inequality.
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  Fair play at the Olympics? Respecting workers’ rights in the sportswear industry

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  If labour exploitation were an Olympic sport, sportswear multinationals would win plenty of medals. As the 2004 Athens Olympics approaches, sportswear companies are spending billions of dollars in associating their products with the event. The expansion of international trade in sportswear has drawn millions of people – mainly women – into employment.
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  Behind the scenes military spending: dilemmas for managing public expenditure

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Reported levels of military expenditure in state budgets often reveal only a part of the story. In many countries military expenses are disguised within non-defence budgets or do not appear in the budget at all. Such ‘off- budget’ military expenditure reduces the credibility of the overall budgeting process and raises difficult dilemmas for achieving an optimal allocation of public resources.
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  Forgotten waterways – time to recognise the potential of water transport

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Traditional waterways continue to be neglected by policy-makers and the deteriorating vessels which navigate them ignored. Yet, rural water transport may be more energy efficient than road transport.
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  Exploring energy-poverty linkages for poor urban households

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Fuel represents the most important item of expenditure for poor households, next to food. Yet, the urban poor face limited, inefficient and expensive energy options to meet their heating and lighting needs. Often forced to live in the most polluted neighbourhoods, they suffer most from combustion-related pollution.
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  Is Asia losing the fight against hunger?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  The first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) seeks to halve the proportion of people suffering from hunger. In the Asia-Pacific region only seven developing countries are on track. Almost two-thirds of the world’s undernourished live in Asia. India – where one in five people are undernourished – has more undernourished people than the whole of Africa.
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  Developing capacity for participatory development in the context of decentralisation: Takalar district, South Sulawesi province, Indonesia

  Capacity.org, 2004

  This case study examines how Takalar district in the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi took up the challenge of tackling rural poverty through the use of participatory development and community empowerment methodologies.Between 1997 and 2002 Takalar district and the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) introduced a model of participatory development known as the Sistem Dukungan,
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  Report on laws and legal procedures concerning the commercial sexual exploitation of children in Indonesia

  End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes, 2004

  This paper reports the findings from research on the domestic legislation and legal procedures in Indonesia as they relate to the commercial sexual exploitation of children.

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