SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries
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Recycling Plastics: Starting a business
An introduction to plastic recycling looking at the reasons for recycling and the practicalities of small-scale businesses.
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Serpentine Solar Water Heating: Guidelines for Fabrication
The Serpentine is a solar thermal collector developed as part of a low cost water heating system by the AIDG for households in Xela, Guatemala.
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The Poor and their Money
The Microfinance revolution is usually considered to have been led by the NGOs, donor agencies, and more recently banks who offer poor people financial services. But what can we learn from the ways that poor people already manage their money? What are the essential elements that they prize so much t...
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Microfinance Self-Help Groups in India
Self-Help Groups (SHGs), a means of reaching rural women with savings and credit services, have taken off dramatically in India, where an estimated 25 million women are members. Their benefits are social as well as economic: SHGs encourage women to become active in village affairs, or take action ag...
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Fuelling Economic Growth
The private sector is playing an increasingly important role in the funding of scientific research. As public sector research declines in the countries of the north and the south, research and development carried out by the private sector becomes more important for innovations that have economic pot...
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Right to Survive
More than 230 million people around the world are affected by emergencies each year. New research for this report predicts that, by 2015, this number could grow by 40 per cent to 325 million – partly as a result of the increasing threat of climate-related disasters and conflict. The predicted scale...
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El derecho a sobrevivir
Más de 230 millones de personas en todo el mundo se ven afectadas por situaciones de emergencia cada año. Nueva investigación para este informe prevé que, en 2015, este número podría crecer un 40 por ciento a 325 millones - en parte como resultado de la creciente amenaza de los desastres y los confl...
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Aerial Ropeways of Nepal
An introduction to aerial tramway / ropeway transport in Nepal including tuins, a river crossing mechanism. .
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Passion Fruit Jam
Recipe and method for the small-scale production of passion fruit jam.
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Right To Survive (Summary)
More than 230 million people around the world are affected by emergencies each year. New research for this report predicts that, by 2015, this number could grow by 40 per cent to 325 million – partly as a result of the increasing threat of climate-related disasters and conflict. The predicted scale...