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    In whose name?: political representation and civil organisations in Brazil

    A.G. Lavalle, P. P. Houtzager, G. Castello / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    Civil society actors are gaining increasing recognition, particularly for their perceived capacity to represent the needs and rights of those at grassroots level in a formal political context, and to thus act as intermediaries of the poor and vulnerable.
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    State courts and the regulation of land disputes in Ghana: the litigants’ perspective

    R. C. Crook / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    This paper argues that Ghanaian litigants in land disputes favour authoritative state legal-institutions over out-of-court settlements.
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    Gendered Health Systems Biased Against Maternal Survival: Preliminary Findings from Koppal, Karnataka, India

    A. George, A. Iyer, G. Sen / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    What is the context of pregnant women's lives and the many health systems they encounter in Koppal, the most deprived district in the state of Karnataka, South India? Preliminary survey findings are combined with qualitative work to illustrate the dynamics involved in seeking and receiving obstetric care.
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    BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 16: Gender and Migration

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    Over the past four decades total numbers of international migrants have more than doubled but the percentage of the world population migrating has remained fairly constant. There are now 175 million international migrants worldwide or approximately 3.5 per cent of the global population -about half of whom are women.
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    Gender and Migration: Supporting Resources Collection

    S. Jolly / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    This collection is made up of summaries of overviews, case studies, tools and guidelines and other materials relating to gender and migration. Details of how to obtain copies or download the full texts are provided with each summary.
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    Mobilising social science research to improve health

    G. Bloom, C. Knowles / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    This short briefing paper looks researchers from a variety of academic disciplines ensure that the benefits of medical advances are made more widely available and that poor people worldwide gain better access to improved health services.
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    Poverty reduction during democratic transition: the Malawi Social Action Fund 1996-2001

    G. Bloom, W. Chilowa, E. Chirwa, H. Lucas, P. Mvula, A. Schou, M. Tsoka / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    In 1996 the Government of Malawi launched the Malawi Social Action Fund (MASAF), which supported the construction of village assets and a public works programme. This report assesses the degree to which the project provided benefits to the poor and contributed to pro-poor institutional development. The conclusions are mixed.
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    Rivalry or synergy?: formal and informal local governance in rural India

    K. AnanthPur / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004
    Informal local governance institutions (ILGIs) are complex organisations, which continue to be prevalent at village level in rural India. Although generally perceived by educated Indians to be “oppressive”, ILGIs also have progressive features and often perform a range of useful, collective functions at the village level.
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    New directions for African agriculture

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    Despite the fact that most of Africa’s poor are rural, and rely largely on agriculture for their livelihoods, African agriculture is slow-growing or stagnating, held back by low yields, poor infrastructure, environmental change, HIV and AIDS and civil conflict. However, this sweeping picture hides some important success stories.
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    When social movements bypass the poor: asbestos pollution, international litigation and Griqua cultural identity

    L. Waldman / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    This paper examines citizen mobilisation and activism in relation to asbestos disease and litigation in South Africa. In order to do so the paper follows the litigation case of Cape plc, a British company mining asbestos in South Africa, which lead the company to pay compensation to 7,500 former employees with asbestos-related diseases.

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