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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...
- ICT - Information and Communication Technologies: Work Programme 2013
- 2012
- This work programme for the ICT theme of the FP7 Specific Programme 'Cooperation' defines the priorities for calls for proposals closing in 2013 and the criteria that will be used for evaluating the proposals responding to these calls...
- 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...
- Comparative study of OECD countries shows that boys are more likely to receive disability support in primary school
- P. Evans; M. Deluca / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2003
- To monitor the inclusion of students with disabilities in the context of Education for All (EFA), it will be necessary to have statistics on the numbers of primary school age children with a disability, by age and gender. This paper b...
- Making working longer an attractive financial proposition for older workers
- Ageing Society, 2006
- This report makes the case for a new agenda of reform which it claims would not only help offset the negative potential effects of population ageing on public budgets and economic growth, but would also promote choice for older worker...
- Rich countries but poor children?
- Miles Corak; Wen-Hao Chen; Christine Lietz; Holly Sutherland; Michael Fertig; Marcus Tamm / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
- Child poverty is not just a problem in developing countries. It also prevails in the world’s richest nations. More than 15 percent of children are poor in the USA, Mexico, Italy, New Zealand, Ireland, Portugal and the UK. What ca...
- Examining varying policy on pensionable age in OECD countries
- J. Turner / American Association of Retired Persons International Section, 2005
- This Issue Paper examines the pensionable or early retirement age policy of social security programs in 23 countries over the years 1949-2035. This paper considers as a group 23 high-income Organization for Economic Cooperation and De...
- Stewardship, monitoring, and context-specific design are crucial factors in achieving universal social health insurance coverage
- G. Carrin; C. James / World Health Organization, 2004
- This paper, produced by the World Health Organisation, discusses the process of extending specific social health insurance (SHI) programmes in low and middle-income countries to cover entire populations. The paper reviews the main pat...
- Centre for Research in Economic Analysis
- Economic integration issues
- Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
- The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) is a cross-national data archive located in Luxembourg. The LIS archive contains two primary databases. The LIS Database includes income microdata from a large number of countries at multiple points in time. The newer LWS Database includes wealth microdata from a smaller selection of countries. Both databases include labour market and demographic data as wel...
- Centre for Population, Poverty and Public Policy Studies International Networks for Studies in Technology, Environment, Alternatives, Development (CEPS - INSTEAD)
- Research centre and network carrying out national and international socioeconomic studies and developing comparative socioeconomic micro- databases, with the aim of providing instruments for analysing, programming and simulating socioeconomic policies. Databases include: (a) the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS): an international comparative study on income distribution (since 1983); countries...
- Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS)
- Department of EC providing information on technological research and development within the European Community. Databases, seachable online, cover programmes, contracts, bibliographical information on publications arising from programmes, news, documents related to RTD activities. Site includes details of R&D under 5th Framework Programme. Also available as CORDIS CD-ROM:
- European Investment Bank (EIB)
- Database of Projects outside the Community (PIAF PA): purpose of the database is: to provide operational staff with information on projects during the appraisal process; to be able to produce statistics on projects outside the Community, especially on projects signed, for management information purposes and to meet general reporting obligations, 1965 - present. WWW site includes structure and pr...
