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IssueLab: Registration page for nonprofit research contributors
IssueLab is an online publishing forum for nonprofit research. Our mission is to more effectively archive, distribute and promote the extensive and diverse body of work being produced by the third sector. A Research Contributor account is strictly for maintaining your organization's research collection.
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23 Apr 2008 |
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Carmen Villegas Caballero
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Creating Hope International (CHI)
"CHI begins projects wth grassroots organizations to help them respond with local solutions when they face problems. Rather than short-term grants or limited-impact charity work, we invest in building local education and health resources and training people with the skills they need to continue the work on their own in the future. In the process, w. . .
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18 Apr 2008 |
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Carmen Villegas Caballero
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MDG's Global Monitoring Report 2008
"At the halfway mark to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) deadline of 2015, the world has not made the necessary progress, but success is still possible given certain conditions, said World Bank economist Zia Qureshi, lead author of this year’s Global Monitoring Report.
While much of the world is on track to halve extreme poverty by the de. . .
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14 Apr 2008 |
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Carmen Villegas Caballero
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The Hygiene Improvement Framework
The Hygiene Improvement Framework is a holistic approach to water and sanitation efforts that combines increased access to facilities and the promotion of behaviour change with supportive policies and institutions. Sustainable improvements in hygiene behaviour patterns require more than promotion and education activities. Water, sanitation and hygi. . .
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09 Apr 2008 |
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Anuradha Bhattacharjee
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Population Ageing and Health Expenditure: Sri Lanka 2001-2101
This study develops projections of the cost of the national health system for the period 2005—2101, building on an earlier effort in Sri Lanka. It utilises an actuarial-cost projection methodology, similar to the approach used in official projections prepared in developed economies, such as USA, UK and Hong Kong SAR. The model projects resource req. . .
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08 Apr 2008 |
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Carmen Villegas Caballero
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The implications of aging for the structure and stability of financial markets
The paper begins by describing the increased dominance of institutional investors in OECD countries and their rapid growth in emerging economies. Part II discusses these investors’ role in enhancing the volatility of capital flows and exacerbating the procyclicality of the global financial system and the potential for systemic risk. The next sectio. . .
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08 Apr 2008 |
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Carmen Villegas Caballero
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Poverty among the Elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean
This paper provides evidence on the incidence of poverty among the elderly
in Latin America and the Caribbean, based on household survey microdata
from 20 countries. The situation of older people is characterized in terms of
income, employment, education, health and access to services vis-à-vis the
rest of the population. The paper identifies t. . .
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08 Apr 2008 |
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Carmen Villegas Caballero
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北京5月起在全市餐馆网吧等公共场所全面禁烟
北京市政府法制办公室日前对外公布了北京市2008年立法规划，总体安排的立法项目达到55项，更多地体现了为奥运服务的方针。其中，即将于5月开始实施的《北京市公共场所禁止吸烟范围的若干规定》颇为引入关注，这意味着，自5月起北京所有餐厅、体育馆、网吧等公共场所将全部开始禁烟，以实现北京“无烟奥运”的承诺。
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31 Mar 2008 |
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xiaochong zhang
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Ethiopia’s Health Extension Program: Pathfinder International’s Support 2003-2007
Pathfinder International is pleased to announce the publication of Ethiopia’s Health Extension Program: Pathfinder International’s Support 2003-2007, describing Pathfinder’s support to the Ethiopian government’s Health Extension Program (HEP). Following years of close collaboration with Ethiopia’s federal Ministry of Health, regional, zonal, woreda. . .
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19 Mar 2008 |
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Mary Burket
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World Population Growth: Fertile Ground for Uncertainty
Growth in the human population abounds despite falling fertility rates, and where it heads in the future will continue to confound demographers, according to the latest Vital Sign Update from the Worldwatch Institute. With the number of women of childbearing age growing and future fertility trends unpredictable, closing the “gender gap”—the differe. . .
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17 Mar 2008 |
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Anuradha Bhattacharjee
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Can We Eradicate Hunger?
World hunger is prevalent yet receives relatively less attention compared to poverty. The MDGs have taken a step to address this with the resolution of halving the number of starving people in the world by 2015. A substantial and sustainable reduction in hunger will also greatly improve the chances of meeting the MDGs related to poverty reduction, . . .
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17 Mar 2008 |
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Adam Swallow
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SKS Micro Finance (India)
SKS began operations in the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh, part of the drought-prone, semi-arid Deccan Plateau, one of the poorest parts of India. Over the last 10 years, SKS has continued to work in regions which suffer from high rates of hunger and malnutrition. These regions have significant numbers of poor who are landless laborers or marg. . .
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16 Mar 2008 |
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Anuradha Bhattacharjee
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More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want
For the Worldwatch Institute, human population has always been a sustainability issue. Our earliest writings confirmed a stable balance between population and the environment as an essential ingredient of the equitable and enduring society our mission advances. And over the years we have highlighted the polices needed in all nations to encourage th. . .
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16 Mar 2008 |
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Anuradha Bhattacharjee
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The impact of HIV/AIDS and drought on local knowledge systems for agrobiodiversity and food security
FAO - Report no 50. This is a publication of the LinKS Project, Gender, biodiversity and local knowledge systems for food security. Drought caused by poor rains in the last four seasons and a high incidence of HIV/AIDS are both long-term crises that create vicious cycles of vulnerability, poverty and food insecurity. This study was conducted to det. . .
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16 Mar 2008 |
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Anuradha Bhattacharjee
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Guidance for Operationalizing the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Policy: Using Funds to Address Food and Nutrition
In September 2006 the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) released a document providing policy guidance on the use of emergency plan funds to address food and nutrition needs [1]. This was informed by the PEPFAR Report on Food and Nutrition for People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) provided in May 2006 [2]. USAID in collaboration wi. . .
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16 Mar 2008 |
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Anuradha Bhattacharjee
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