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Searching with a thematic focus on Globalisation in Nepal

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  Helping the families of home-based workers break the cycle of poverty

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008

  In Asia there are millions of home-based women workers and the vast majority are poor. How can the risks and vulnerabilities these women face be reduced? And what can be done to help the children of home-based workers escape poverty?
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  Using microfinance to prevent debt bondage

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Bonded labour is a major human rights challenge in South-East Asia. Millions of poor people are forced to work for little or no wage, as they struggle in vain to repay loans from their employers. The provision of microfinance is emerging as a key strategy, given that bondage generally results from the need for credit.
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  Empowering women migrant workers

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2005

  This document presents information on UNIFEM’s Regional Programme on Empowering Women Migrant Workers in Asia which seeks to empower women migrant workers from a gender and rights-based development perspective.
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  Handmade paper in Nepal: lessons in institutional innovation

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Studies of how innovations start and spread usually focus on the technology itself, rather than the complex interactions between people involved in processes of change. The growing handmade paper industry in Nepal, however, highlights the importance of institutional innovation.
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  Indigenous and tribal peoples: an ethnic audit of selected poverty reduction strategy papers

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  Indigenous and tribal peoples represent about 5 per cent of the world's population, but over 15 per cent of the world's poor. The incidence of extreme poverty is higher among them than among other social groups and they generally benefit much less than others from overall declines in poverty.
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  A study of trafficked Nepalese girls and women in Mumbai and Kolkata, India

  Childtrafficking.com, 2005

  This is a qualitative study of Nepalese girls and women after they have been sold for prostitution into brothels in Mumbai and Kolkata, India. The study explores their first days, their years of confinement and their years in sex work after their release. The study investigates the economic forces that drive trafficking from Nepal: the demand of the client and the demand of the brothel owner.
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  Migration, poverty and development in Nepal

  United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2004

  High unemployment rates compel Nepalese people to migrate within and outside the country in search of better opportunities of livelihood.
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  The movement of women: migration, trafficking, and prostitution in the context of Nepal’s armed conflict

  Human Trafficking, 2005

  This study aims to understand the patterns of girls’ and women’s movement in contemporary Nepal, especially in view of the conflict which is leading to serious threats in the lives of women and girls.Main findings of the study include:conflict is significantly increasing both external migration and internal migrationthe number of women and girls migrating though borders to India in
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  Home-based workers: neglected by policy-makers and labour organisers?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Homeworkers are a flexible and cheap labour force and almost 80 percent of them are female. They are ‘invisible’ in the regular labour market and their interests and priorities are not at the forefront of political or labour organisations. It is difficult for them to demand higher wages, job security or improved working conditions.
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  Tracking gender equity under economic reforms: continuity and change in South Asia

  International Development Research Centre, 2003

  This book develops a new framework for gender analysis by demonstrating the importance of identifying the context of such analysis, and by highlighting the necessity of differentiating ‘gender’ per se from its various ‘indicators’.

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