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  Has British business missed the boat in Latin America?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to Latin America rose dramatically in the 1990s in response to opportunities stimulated by the spate of privatisations and private mergers and acquisitions (M&A). How have British enterprises responded to Latin America’s new economic environment? Have they worked to establish global export platforms?
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  Decentralisation: not necessarily always a good thing?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Decentralisation is in vogue and not just in multi-party democracies. Military dictatorships, one-party states and even authoritarian monarchies have signed up. Amidst this enthusiasm, is there empirical evidence that decentralised regimes are more likely to be pro-poor, responsive and transparent? Have decentralisation and democratisation been naively conflated?
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  WHO knows best? A new treatment for children with diarrhoea

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Is the standard treatment with oral rehydration salts (ORS) the best way to help children with diarrhoea? Researchers from the University of Reading and partner institutions compare the standard ORS solution recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO) with one containing less sodium.
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  Business Cycles in Emerging Economies:The Role of Interest Rates

  Global Development Network, 2002

  This paper documents the empirical relation between the interest rates that emerging economies face in international capital markets and their business cycles, using data including quarterly data for Argentina during 1983-2000 and for Brazil, Mexico, Korea, and Philippines, during 1994-2000.The paper presents a dynamic general equilibrium model of a small open economy, in which:firms ha
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  Global Health Forum I: creating global markets for neglected drugs and vaccines: a challenge for public-private partnership

  Institute for Global Health, 2000

  Efforts to put the health gap between rich and poor countries at the top of the development political agenda have been renewed in recent years.
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  Case studies of corporate outreach

  Inter-American Foundation, 2002

  This is a collection of examples of IAF partnerships with the private sector that is intended to provide examples to companies of ways in which CSR can be in their interest. The introduction to the collection argues that for the private sector to develop participatory, sustainable investments in the community, it must have an enlightened self-interest in the process.
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  Development and strengthening of human resources management in the health services

  Pan American Health Organization, 2001

  The quality of health services depends on the performance of health service workers, but little attention has been paid to improving how human resources are managed in the health sector. A document by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) looks at the situation in the Pan-American region, and outlines actions for improving the institutions which manage health sector workers.
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  Distance education for basic education in the E9 countries

  2002

  This paper explores the successes or otherwise of the use of distance education to increase levels of basic education in the E-9 countries which share similar issues in terms of high population and relatively low levels of basic education completion.The document details the ways in which countries have used distance education:it has occasionally been used either as an alternative to fo
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  Integration of biodiversity into national fishery sectors

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2002

  This report is one of eight thematic reviews prepared for the Biodiversity Planning Support Programme (BPSP), a programme created to help countries strengthen national capacity to prepare and implement National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans in compliance with Article 6 of the Convention on Biological Diversity.The study consists of the following:a primer for planners on biodi
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  We have a consensus: explaining political support for market reforms in Latin America

  Eldis Document Store, 2002

  This essay examines the course of market reforms—more polemically known as "neoliberalism"—in the four most industrialized countries in Latin America during the final decades of the twentieth century.Through a qualitative investigation of the reform process in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico—the paper challenges the perspective held by many analysts of the reforms who have assumed that nor

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