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    Women in the Market: A Manual for Popular Economic Literacy

    Network Women in Development Europe, 2000
    Designed for WIDE's popular economics training, this manual combines a popular education framework with economic literacy tools to develop a better understanding of the fundamental workings of a market economy. It provides information on the particulars of the current economy: globalisation, restructuring, fluctuations (unemployment, inflation) and the WTO.
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    Assessing the Enabling Environment for Women in Growth Enterprises: An AfDB/ILO Integrated Framework Assessment Guide

    International Labour Organization, 2005
    There is a growing recognition of the importance of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSME) for development in Africa. Women's entrepreneurial activities mainly take place within the context of MSMEs which currently create the majority of new jobs across the continent.
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    Social Differentiation and Gender Stratification in the Present Phase of China

    Zhejiang University, 2004
    During the current social transition those with most power are men. Men make up about three-quarters of all those managing, state, society and private enterprises. In the middle levels of society, women and men make up fairly equal proportions of professional and technical people, but men outnumber women in higher level posts, and women predominate at the lower end.
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    A Study of Gender Inequality in Rural Women's Development and their Free Time

    2004
    The relation between free time and gender inequality has been ignored by both studies of free time and by women's studies.
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    Girls' Education: Towards a Better Future for All

    Department for International Development, UK, 2005
    This paper describes DFID's planned actions to support work towards the education and gender Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
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    Men Who Have Sex with Men and HIV in Vietnam: A Review

    Guilford Publications, New York, 2004
    Men who have sex with men (MSM) in Vietnam's urban centres are increasing in numbers and visibility. Although limited to a few surveys, the available data on MSM in Vietnam show that they are at increased risk of HIV infection due to high numbers of sexual partners, high rates of unsafe sex, and inconsistent condom use.
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    A Russian Perspective

    Canadian International Development Agency, 2001
    Gender equality is an important element in the successful transition to a market economy and democratic development. Unfortunately, in the economic and political transition in Russia women have paid a higher price than men.
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    Investing in people: national progress in implementing the ICPD programme of action 1994-2004

    United Nations Population Fund, 2004
    Almost all countries report having taken at least one policy, legislative or administrative action to protect the rights of girls and women and promote women's empowerment since the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994.
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    GENIA Toolkit For Promoting Gender Equality in Education

    2004
    How can education in Asia become more gender sensitive? The GENIA toolkit provides a collection of practical resources for gender focal points in Asian Ministries of Education (MoE). It aims to build the technical capacity of gender focal points to mainstream gender at national and regional levels.
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    Why eat green cucumbers at the time of dying?: women’s literacy and development in Nepal

    Education Sector, UNESCO, 2000
    Why should people take on new literacy practices when they feel they are able to communicate adequately? Is 'traditional' literacy the key to women's empowerment? In Nepal, as elsewhere, there has been an explosion of literacy programmes due to the popular perception that this is the case. This report questions whether such programmes meet women's needs from the point of view of participants.

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