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Briefing paper

Education Charges: A tax on human development

01/10/2001

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Education financing

Overview

New research illustrates how education charges trap children in a cycle of illiteracy and poverty. Governments and international organizations must act immediately on their commitments to deliver free basic education for all.

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Briefing paper

Rigged Trade and Not Much Aid: How rich countries help to keep the least developed countries poor

01/05/2001

1 documents

27 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Trade policy

Overview

Ten years have passed since the international community promised to arrest the decline of the Least Developed Countries. The intervening decade has been one of abject failure, with rich countries reneging on their commitments. Oxfam believes the UN LDC 111 provides an opportunity to show that international co-operation in the interests of poverty reduction and […]

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Briefing paper

Education: Tackling the global crisis

05/04/2001

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Today 125 million children do not get any formal education at all. This education crisis undermines any chance of rapid progress in human development. Oxfam hopes that the Spring Meetings of the World Bank and IMF will see the launch of a global initiative to close the education gap.

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Research report

Climate Change: The implications for Oxfam’s programme, policies and advocacy

01/10/2000

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Report on the impacts of climate change and the implications for Oxfam’s programme, policies and advocacy.

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Journal article

Environment, growth and development: The concepts and strategies of sustainability

01/05/1995

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

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This article does not have a description.

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Journal article

Environmental leadership training for Asia

01/11/1993

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

There was a split between North and South over environmental issues at the 1992 Earth Summit. A similar rift may re-emerge as the British Overseas Development Administration opens management of its training programmes to competition in 1993. Emerging institutions offering training on environmental matters in Asia have the advantages of similar natural environments, relevance, and […]

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Journal article

Environment and women in Uganda: the way I see it

01/02/1993

3 pages long

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Environment and women in Uganda: the way I see it

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Overview

Adoko’s argument is that projects to protect the environment should not be made the responsibility of poor women, particularly since it is not women – or poor people – who are destroying the environment. In the case of tree planting in Uganda, women are burdened with collecting water for saplings, whilst important gender issues such […]

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Journal article

Women’s relationship with the environment

01/02/1993

6 pages long

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Women’s relationship with the environment

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This article examines how women use natural resources in urban and rural areas; how women’s interests have been harmed by environmental changes; and how they are responding. Although women cultivate the land for food and to earn a living intensive farming methods damage soil fertility, making women more prone to poverty. However women’s groups are […]

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Journal article

Environmental change and quality of life

01/02/1993

3 pages long

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Environmental change and quality of life

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Overview

How do farmers see environmental changes affecting their family’s well-being? How are they trying to cope with and improve the situation? What can outsiders do to support them in these efforts? These questions were addressed in the March 1992 issue of ILEIA Newsletter, a journal of the Information Centre for Low External Input in Sustainable […]

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Book

Women and the Environment

01/01/1993

1 documents

68 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The majority of women in the South have a close and complex relationship to their surroundings. They are profoundly affected by environmental degradation, as they depend directly on natural resources for their livelihoods. Their need for access to these resources often goes unrecognised, as does their role as producers and environmental managers. At times of […]

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