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    Killing kimberley?: conflict diamonds and paper tigers

    Partnership Africa Canada, 2006
    This report describes the current problems facing the Kimberley Process (KP), and the remedial action that is required if governments and industry are serious about ending conflict diamonds.
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    Making sense of food security measurements

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Reducing hunger and food insecurity is central to the Millennium Development Goals. Monitoring progress towards targets requires simple, quick and reliable methods. However, this has proved difficult for both researchers and practitioners.
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    Multicentre study of acute alcohol use and non-fatal injuries: data from the WHO collaborative study on alcohol and injuries

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2006
    This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO), examines the link between drinking alcohol and the risk of non-fatal injury. It draws on data collected from hospital emergency departments in Belarus, Brazil, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, India, Mexico, Mozambique, New Zealand, South Africa and Sweden.
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    Making property rights accessible: social movements andlegal innovation in the Philippines

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    Today, many rural poor Filipinos are using state law to try to claim land rights. In spite of the availability of a much stronger set of legal resources than ever before, claiming legal land rights remains difficult. Some argue these difficulties are a reason to turn away from state-led land reform and toward a market-assisted land reform (MALR) model.
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    Agricultural R&D in the developing world: too little, too late?

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2006
    Are developing countries are at risk of becoming technological orphans?
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    Renewable energy technologies in developing countries: lessons from Mauritius, China and Brazil

    Institute of Advanced Studies. United Nations University,, 2006
    Although the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) could see billions of dollars invested in the development of renewable energies in developing countries, this report argues that successful development of viable markets in renewable technologies is highly dependent on context-specific factors.This report looks at the context-specific factors behind the success of three renewable energy development
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    Minimum Income for School Attendance (MISA) initiative: achieving international development goals in African least developed countries

    International Labour Organization, 2001
    In some Latin American countries, an innovative approach has been introduced to reduce poverty, to enhance the human capital of the poor and to combat child labour. The approach involves providing a minimum income to the poorest and most vulnerable families, conditional on regular school attendance by all their children of school going age.
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    Balancing biodiversity and local development in the Amazon

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Balancing environmental preservation with the needs of local people is an enormous challenge in areas of high biodiversity. This is even more difficult if there is pressure on resources from outsiders. The Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve in Brazil has many lessons for those seeking to achieve this balance.
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    A note on measuring unemployment

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006
    In developing countries, official measures of unemployment are often low due to the extent of informal employment , whose workers consider themselves to be employed.
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    Making space for citizens: broadening the ‘new democratic spaces’ for citizen participation

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    This IDS Policy Briefing explores the new democratic spaces that have opened up for citizen participation in a range of countries, including Angola, Brazil, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Uganda, Mexico, Canada and the United Kingdom.

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