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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Pakistan

Given the increasing frailty and disability with age, social networks and social support play
cardinal role in the quality of life of older people in societies where formal support and...

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Date: Feb 2014
Location: World

Structural analysis was carried out on all three types of tent { Shelter Centre, DFID and IFRC. The Shelter Centre tent was analysed by assuming a sheeting bow angle and considering the sheeting...

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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Somalia

This thematic brief presents the main challenges in early recovery efforts as international aid actors try to
link relief to development. The brief begins with a general discussion of early...

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Date: Feb 2014
Location: World

This book is a unique compilation of state-of-the-art vulnerability assessment and is essential reading for academics, policy students, practitioners, makers, and anybody else interested in...

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This research aimed to determine the Disaster Risk Reduction activities, particularly Early Warning, existing and being implemented in Gutu District. From the findings, the research then...

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Date: Feb 2014
Location: World

This study examines the advantages, limitations and implications of involving foreign military assets”personnel, equipment and expertise”in the relief operations that follow major natural...

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Publisher(s): University of Chicago
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Pakistan

This article tests one—the labor market—explanation for gender gaps in
education in Pakistan.1 On the basis of the investment motive, it contends
that if the labor market rewards men’s...

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This study will aim to
counterbalance this trend in the literature and will explore the experiences of Pakistani
and Somali URs, two of the largest UR populations in Kathmandu, Nepal....

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Date: Feb 2014
Location: World

Calculations, investigations and structural analysis were conducted to aid Shelter Centre's production of a procurement specification of a transitional tent. The design consisted of a two bay...

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Sector(s):
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Pakistan

This study discusses gender discrimination as „non-traditional security‟ threat to the country. It argues that women are more than half of the population and the security of women is associated...

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