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  Through a gender lens: Resources for Population, Health and Nutrition Projects

  Family Health International, 1998

  Reviews existing models and methodologies for incorporating a gender perspective into U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) development initiatives.
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  From miracle to meltdown: vulnerabilities, moral hazard, panic and debt deflation in the Asian Crisis

  East Asia Crisis Workshop, IDS, 1998

  The literature on the crisis contains three canonical stories.
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  Poverty and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa

  HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 1998

  This paper, published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), presents evidence on the incidence of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa, and analyses the relationships between HIV, AIDS, and poverty. It describes three particular types of relationships. Firstly, the poor are more likely to adopt behaviours which expose them to HIV infection.
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  Biopiracy, TRIPS and the Patenting of Asia's Rice Bowl: A collective NGO situationer on IPRs on rice

  GRAIN, 1998

  Nearly all Asian countries are committed to the WTO TRIPs treaty. This means that by the year 2000, Asian governments have to make intellectual property titles on seeds completely legal. This will favor transnational corporations who want to control agriculture and the world's food system through genetic engineering.
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  Signposts To Sui Generis Rights: Resource materials from the international seminar on sui generis rights

  GRAIN, 1997

  TRIPS requires developing countries to enact intellectual property rights (IPR) legislation for plant varieties by the year 2000, while least-developed countries have until 2005. This can be in the form of classic industrial patent systems or some "effective sui generis system".
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  Ten reasons not to join UPOV [Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants]

  GRAIN, 1998

  Developing countries are currently facing intense pressure to institute intellectual property rights (IPRs) for plant varieties. Despite the fact that the brief history of IPRs over plants and biological resources has undermined local biodiversity in the North and precipitated corporate monopolies over the food system, Southern countries are being forced to travel the same path.
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  Health as an informational good: the determinants of child nutrition and mortality during political and economic recovery in Uganda

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995

  The paper uses data from the 1992 Integrated Household Survey to model the determinants of child mortality and malnutrition. Parental beliefs about health have a strong and very highly significant influence on child mortality. Education and income also play a role, partly coming through its effect on beliefs, but early primary education seems to have little effect.
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  Staking Their Claims: Land Disputes in Southern Mozambique

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997

  Conflicting interests in land and resource use emerged in postwar Mozambique, giving rise to multiple layers of dispute. This article explores the disputes occurring between 1992 and 1995 in two districts which are notable for the severity of competition over land by virtue of their proximity to Maputo, namely, Matutuíne and Namaacha.
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  Reflect: Evaluating a New Approach to Adult Literacy

  ActionAid International, 1997

  In October 1993 ACTIONAID, (a British based international NGO working in 20 countries) began a two year action research project to explore possible uses of Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) techniques within adult literacy programmes.
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  Textiles Beyond the MFA Phase-Out

  Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, 1998

  The Uruguay Round (UR) Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC), which was meant to undo the MFA, is to be effected by the year 2005 despite inherent tendencies in the past to continually protect textile and clothing (T&C) industries? How did we get into this protectionist quagmire? What lay behind being able to sell protection in importing countries to T&C exporting countries?

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