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  Afghanistan: "No one listens to us and no one treats us as human beings": justice denied to women

  2003

  This paper explores rhetorical committments to women's rights in Afghanistan, and examines how women's rights in Afghanistan became an issue of global concern with the US-led incursion into Afghanistan.
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  Education For All (EFA) - Fast Track Initiative (FTI) status report

  Education for All Fast Track Initiative, World Bank, 2004

  This report looks at the progress of the FTI.
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  Making motherhood safer in Egypt

  Population Reference Bureau, 2004

  While Egypt's maternal mortality remains relatively high by international standards, it has significantly dropped in the last ten to fifteen years, this paper reports. This paper describes Egypt's positive steps and failures in providing a safe public health environment for expectant mothers.
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  Patterns of financial capital flows and accumulation in the post-1990 Turkish economy

  Economic Research Center, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, 2002

  In this paper the authors investigate the determinants of short-term foreign capital inflows for Turkey following its capital account liberalisation in 1989. Capital inflows are identified exclusively with the portfolio investments of residents and non-residents abroad and foreign credits of the banking sector.
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  The impact of the Multifiber Agreement phaseout on unemployment in Tunisia: a prospective dynamic analysis

  European Development Research Network, 2004

  Using a dynamic general equilibrium model, the paper provides a quantitative assessment of the impact of the dismantling of the Multifiber Agreement (MFA) on unemployment in Tunisia.
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  Education in emergencies: learning for a peaceful future

  Forced Migration Review, 2005

  Forced Migration Review focuses on issues facing refugees and internally displaced people in order to improve policy and practice and to involve refugees and IDPs in programme design and implementation.
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  Learning to export: evidence form Moroccan manufacturing

  European Development Research Network, 2004

  As part of the second academic EUDN Conference on "Trade, aid, FDI and international migration" this paper explores the export learning process of Moroccan manufacturers.
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  Policy and programmatic measures taken to meet the needs of the elderly: Africa’s response to a budding challenge

  Union for African Populations Studies / Union pour l’Etude de la Population Africaine, 2004

  This paper examines the policy and programmatic measures taken so far by African countries to meet the needs of the elderly since 1994.
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  Natural disasters and adaptive capacity

  OECD Development Centre, 2004

  The ability of countries to manage risks associated with natural disasters – their vulnerability before disaster strikes and their resilience after the fact - is a pressing concern for development agencies and developing-country governments.
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  Cost-effective strategies for achieving polio eradication: lessons from Turkey and Cambodia

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 2001

  This paper, from the Partnerships for Health Reform Project, reports on two case studies on the cost-effectiveness of mixed operational approaches to polio eradication. The two case studies, Turkey and Cambodia, involved mass immunisation campaign approaches that combined both fixed site immunisation with targeted house-to-house immunisation.

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