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    On the verge of a new water scarcity

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2007
    This paper takes a close look at the growing challenge of water scarcity. It looks at the symptoms and scale of the challenge before putting forward policy recommendations involving good governance and management practices.
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    Access to higher education and inequality: the Chinese experiment

    Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2007
    Is the rising inequality in China associated with variable access to educational opportunities? This paper models the effects on the evolution of private returns to schooling for college graduates during China’s reform between 1988 and 2002.
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    Local institutions and social policy for children: opportunities and constraints of participatory service delivery

    Young Lives, 2007
    This paper evaluates an attempt in Andhara Pradesh to improve the outreach, quality and accountability of education, health and early childhood development services. The project specifically aims to involve parents closely with their children’s monitoring and management.
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    South Asia economic report: social sectors in transition

    Asian Development Bank, 2006
    This second issue of the South Asia Economic Report (SAER) discusses social sectors in transition, with a particular focus on education and health. It looks at transformational trends and their impact on the education and health sectors and proposes measures to manage these social sectors through this transition.
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    Drafting implementing regulations for international anti-corruption conventions

    Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2007
    How can executive agencies in developing countries implement international conventions against corruption?
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    Towards a single development vision and the role of the single economy

    Caribbean Community Secretariat, 2007
    This report is meant to provide a vision for the development of the Caribbean Community to which all stakeholders can give their support. It aims to serve as a basis for decisions by the Heads of Government on a ‘road map’ for the further implementation of the Caricom Single Market and Economy.
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    The gathering storm: infectious diseases and human rights in Burma

    Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, 2007
    This document sheds light on the factors that have contributed to Burma’s health situation and the spread of infectious diseases in Burma, and across its borders.
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    Digital poverty: Latin American and Caribbean perspectives

    International Development Research Centre, 2007
    This book examines the problem of inadequate access to information and communication technology (ICT) and the need to develop appropriate pro-poor ICT policies within the Latin American and Caribbean context.
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    Returns to private education in Peru

    Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2007
    The private provision of educational services at tertiary, secondary and primary levels has been expanding in Latin America in recent decades. The low quality of public provision of education is given as the main reason for the expansion of private service provision.
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    Supporting non-state providers in basic education service delivery

    Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity, 2007
    In many low-income countries basic education continues to be regarded as a state responsibility. Non-state provision of education is seen as complementary to this. However, within the context of the move towards achieving Education for All (EFA), focus on the role of non state providers (NSPs) has intensified recently.

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