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  Help wanted: abuses against female migrant domestic workers in Indonesia and Malaysia

  Human Rights Watch, 2004

  This report provides a comprehensive account of the endemic and often severe abuses of migrant domestic workers in Malaysia, 90 per cent of whom are Indonesian.
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  The IMF and the Indonesian crisis

  Independent Evaluation Office of the IMF, 2004

  This paper considers the reasons for the seriousness of the Indonesian currency crisis of 1997-98, and the appropriateness of the IMF response, and offers suggestions for how the crisis could have been better handled.
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  Learning the lessons on PSIA: a synthesis of experience from the DFID Pilot Studies

  PRSP Monitoring and Synthesis Project, 2003

  Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) aims to improve policy formation in low-income countries and is hailed as a key element both of national PRS processes, and in the design of IMF and World Bank lending programmes. PSIA is an approach for assessing the effects of policy change on the well being of different groups in society.
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  Enhancing gender and development in member countries: a review

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2003

  This paper presents the review of an Asian Development Bank (ADB) project to enhance the gender and development (GAD) capacity of agencies responsible for executing Bank activities.
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  CEDAW Combined Second and Third Periodic Reports of States Parties: Indonesia

  United Nations, 1997

  This report outlines the status of women in Indonesia as of 1997, the last time Indonesia made a submission to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of CEDAW. Indonesia has had a Minister of State for the Role of Women since 1978. In the years leading up to 1997, the country experienced rapid economic growth that substantially changed the status of women.
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  Women's Human Rights Situation in Indonesia

  Online Women in Politics, 2002

  Under the Indonesian Constitution women have the same rights as men. What happens in practice?
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  Trafficking of Women and Children in Indonesia

  International Catholic Migration Commission, 2003

  In Indonesia, counter-trafficking measures have been inhibited by the fact that in many cases 'trafficking' is not considered exploitative. This comprehensive report argues that broadening the definition of trafficking from prostitution to include migrant work, domestic work, sex work and mail order brides can ensure that these forms of exploitation are also addressed.
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  The road to pro-poor growth: the Indonesian experience in regional perspective

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2004

  In response to the increased emphasis placed by donors on 'pro-poor growth', this paper aims to examine it in regional perspective, and to draw particular policy lessons for Indonesia. It defines the primary component of pro-poor growth as connecting the poor to rapid economic growth so there is a concomitant rapid reduction in poverty.
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  Greasy palms – palm oil, the environment and big business

  Friends of the Earth, 2003

  This report summarises two separate Friends of the Earth reports on, respectively, the increasing demand for palm oil in developed countries, and the social and environmental impacts of palm oil cultivation in Southeast Asia - focussing particularly on Indonesia.
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  Does voice matter? For public accountability, yes

  World Bank Publications, 1994

  Recent theory argues that accountability in public service can be enhanced by the use of "exit " and " voice " mechanisms. Voice mechanisms are the more likely option when the service providers are a monopoly.

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