Finland
- Capital:
Helsinki - Population:
5244000 - Size:
337030.0 Km2
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- The BLDS print collection
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Browse all the latest print documents from the British Library of Development Studies...
- Can bilateral development cooperation programmes effectively improve performance through decentralised operation
- M. Kajimbwa / Eldis Document Store, 2011
- What is the potential of the decentralisation of bilateral development cooperation programmes as an aid to improving their performance in regard to poverty reduction? This book presents evidence-based observations on how de...
- Information and Communications Technology in Health Care
- P. Ranta 2010
- This thesis has been written on assignment for a project called “Value Creation in Smart Living Environments for Senior Citizens” funded by the Academy of Finland. This Oulubased project aims to develop and evaluate the effe...
- Survey on ICT for HIV/AIDS Preventive Education: Are the teenagers forgotten in developing countries?
- B. J. Kizito / Journal of Emerging Trends in Computing and Information Sciences, 2011
- HIV/AIDS epidemic is still a major societal problem in developing countries, especially in Africa. ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) is seen as one of the most important solutions in order to provide HIV/AIDS preventive...
- Towards Electronic Governance – A Case Study of ICT in Local Government Governance
- T. Zwahr 2006
- The objective of the paper is to contribute to the discussion about the ideas and concepts of electronic governance. In the first section, the paper describes the authors’ conceptual model of electronic governance and its theoret...
- A snapshot of world population trends, 2011
- B. Crossette (ed); R. Kollodge; A. Toure / United Nations Population Fund, 2011
- This report provides a snapshot of how a number of countries are facing diverse demographic challenges, ranging from ageing populations to high fertility rates, and from urbanisation to the emergence of new generations of young people...
- Usability in healthcare: overcoming the mismatch between information systems and clinical work
- J. Kaipio 2011
- Usability of clinical information technology (IT) systems is an ongoing topic of discussion. The systems should support healthcare professionals in their daily work with patients.However, critics indicate the prevalence of negative ex...
- Ozonaction: HCFC phase out - convenient opportunity to safeguard the ozone layer and climate
- United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2008
- This UNEP publication highlights the successes and challenges in meeting the Montreal Protocol on reducing ozone depleting substances. It explains the actions and policies that were key to the success of meeting CFC/HCFC reduction dea...
- Good practice paper on ICTs for economic growth and poverty reduction
- S. Batchelor (ed) 2005
- This report aims to give an overview of what DAC members (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden...
- Challenges to insular income systems in the Nordic Countries
- M. Dahlström / NORDREGIO, 2006
- This volume reports on the results of the project Challenges to insular income systems in the Nordic ountries. It focuses on the following six insular areas: Bornholm in Denmark ...
- CSR in European SMEs
- I. Mandl; A. Dorr / KMU FORSCHUNG AUSTRIA, Austrian Institute for SME Research, 2007
- This study focuses on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices in European Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Based on a review of general CSR situation in seven European countries -Austria, Finland, Germany, Norwa...
- Fennia (http://ojs.tsv.fi/index.php/fennia)
- FENNIA is an international peer-review journal dedicated to all fields of geography.
- United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
- Multidisciplinary research institute on development economics
- Åbo Akademi University
- Åbo Akademi University
- Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland
- Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation, Finland
- Finish research in economics and medicine
- Helsinki Process
- Looking for empowering solutions to the dilemmas of global governance
- WIDER Conference on Making Peace Work
- Conference on Making Peace Work, 4-5 June 2004
- WIDER Conference on Inequality, Poverty and Human Well-being
- This conference of economists and experts met on 30-31 May in Helsinki to report and discuss research findings on human well-being, poverty and global and regional inequality, especially in the world's poorest countries. This is part of a series of conferences, meetings and research projects organized by the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) of the United Nations Universit...
- Institute for Economies in Transition, Bank of Finland (BOFIT)
- BOFIT specialises in high-level research on transition economics and analysis of specific national economies involved in the transition from command to market economy. Economic developments, policy and structural reforms (e.g. financial and public sector) are studied, as well as changes in the operating environment of enterprises. BOFIT has traditionally focused on Russia and the Baltics. A recent...
- University of Lapland Arctic Centre
- Inter-disciplinary research on the Arctic
