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    Financing education: investments and returns

    OECD Education and Skills, 2002
    This report seeks to analyse the education indicators developed through the OECD/UNESCO World Education Indicators (WEI) programme.
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    Prevention of coronary heart disease in south Asia

    The Lancet, 2002
    It is increasingly recognised that cardiovascular diseases are a major health problem in developing countries. However, tertiary health care for such diseases is expensive and frequently unavailable in developing countries.
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    Brave new women of Asia: how distance education changed their lives

    Commonwealth of Learning, 2001
    The document presents a number of case studies exploring women's participation in higher education.
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    Draft ministerial declaration: proposal from a group of developing countries.

    World Trade Organization, 2001
    Draft proposal by a grouping of less developed and developing countries for a declaration at the fourth WTO ministerial conference in Doha, Qatar. Outlines the general position of those countries with respect to implementation of the TRIPS agreement. The same URL has links to the contrasting developed countries draft proposal along with reporting on the discussion.
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    The Uruguay Round and South Asia : an overview of the impact and opportunities

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    South Asia remains less liberal in trade policy than East Asia, including China. The Uruguay Round's most dramatic effect on South Asia will be the removal of non tariff barriers on the region's exports to the rest of the world.
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    Roads and realities: how to promote road contracting in developing countries

    Water Engineering and Development Centre, 2000
    Book available in full-text contains ideas, methods and techniques for the provision of local road networks. It is aimed at policy-makers, construction professionals and students involved in the practical side of the sector and development specialists in and outside the sector.
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    Sources of growth in South Asian economies

    Global Development Network, 2000
    This paper extracts insights from cross-country analysis about the performance of individual South Asian countries and the region as a whole.
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    Real Lives

    International Planned Parenthood Federation, 1999
    Online version of print journal, promoting dialogue and highlighting sexual and reproductive health needs and rights in South Asia.
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    Savings, investment and growth in South Asia

    South Asia Network of Economic Research Institutes, 2000
    Report of a study analysing the performance of the South Asian countries regarding savings and investment rates in comparison with East Asia.Econometric analysis shows that the main factors behind the lower rates of savings in South Asia are:a less rapid decline in the age dependency ratio (which has remained virtually stagnant in Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh), while falling dramat
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    A plan to strengthen regional trade cooperation in South Asia

    South Asia Network of Economic Research Institutes, 2000
    Report of a study to examine various aspects of intra-regional trade in South Asia with a view to highlighting the problems in and prospects of strengthening trade and economic relations within the region.

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