Surface Transport for Rural Development


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Child Labour: Targeting the Intolerable, Stop Child Labour!, Child Labour in Weaving Industry, Violence in School: A World Wide Affair, Helping Your Child Learn, Children s Health and the Environment, Population Growth and Jobs, Solving the Unemployment Problem by Looking Beyond the Job, Trade and Labour Standards: Using the Wrong Instruments for the Right Cause, Employment and Promoting Ecology: How a Service Culture Could Put People Back to Work, Towards Healthy Cities, Health Care Relief in Conflict Situations: What Can We Learn from the Food Relief Experience?, The Environment, the Economy and Public Health: An Integrated View, Why Don t We Stop Tuberculosis?, Climate Change and Human Health, Population Growth and Climate Change, Taking Poverty to Heart: Non-Communicable Diseases and the Poor, Social Development: The Way Forward, Resistance to Change: Why Poverty Reduction Programmes Did Not Work, Tapping the Market: Can Private Enterprise Supply Water to the Poor?, Aid Effectiveness as a Multi-level Process, Safe Motherhood is a Human Rights Issue, What is Known about Reducing: Maternal Mortality?, Action for Safe Motherhood, The Dematerialisation of the World Economy, Pollution for Export, Challenging Traditional Economic Growth, Rural Poverty in India, Food First, A New World Order for Whom?, Safety First!, The Population Challenge, Literacy Gaining Too Slowly, AIDS and the Responsibility of the Media, Development: The People Know Best, Social Summit.




Infectious Diseases and Rural Livelihood in Developing Countries


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This book focuses on the effects of rural livelihood and the impact of infectious diseases on health and poverty. It explores cultures and traditions in developing countries and their role in infectious-disease management and prevention. It highlights the associated healthcare systems and how these have contributed to some of the challenges faced, and goes on to elaborate on the significance of community involvement in infectious-disease prevention, management and control. It also emphasizes the importance of surveillance and setting up strategies on infectious-disease management that are favourable for poor communities and developing countries. Infectious Diseases and Rural Livelihood in Developing Countries allows students, researchers, healthcare workers, stakeholders and governments to better understand the vicious cycle of health, poverty and livelihoods in developing countries and to develop strategies that can work better in these regions.




Technology in Rural Transportation


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Identifies and describes proven, cost-effective, "low-tech" solutions for rural transportation-related problems or needs. Through a process of research and interviews with local level transportation professionals throughout the U.S., examples of technology applications which have been locally developed to meet local problems were identified and documented. Includes descriptions of benefits of the technology, the expected implementation process, the potential issues associated with technology, and each technology's role in larger scale, fully integrated rural transportation systems. Charts and tables. Photos.










Infrastructure for Rural Development


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Dr V Basil Hans MA, MPhil, PhD is Associate Professor and Head, Dept of Economics and dean Faculty of Arts, St Aloysius Evening College, Mangalore. He has more than 30 years of teaching experience at UG and PG levels. Dr Hans has guided six MPhil and three PhD candidates successfully. He is an editor/reviewer for 31 journals. He has authored 18 books, edited 7 volumes and written 212 articles. He has presented 82 papers in national seminars and 12 in international conferences. His forthcoming book in on sanitation culture in India.




Rural Road Maintenance


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Provides an analysis of rural road maintenance in the Asian region.







Bangladesh Maritime History


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A wide network of rivers make Bangladesh one of the largest maritime nations in the world. Various types of inland marine crafts have been carrying cargo and passengers for thousands of years. Being self sufficient in resources, ancient Bangladeshis did not have to venture outside their nation and therefore, ocean borne navigation was never an important aspect of their life. Inland marine was an important feature in the lifestyle of Bangladeshis and will remain so for a long time.







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