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  The wage effects from the use of personal contacts as hiring channels

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2004

  This paper examines the idea that the use of personal networks in the hiring process has a positive influence on the wages of referred individuals.
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  Development–military interfaces: new challenges in crises and post-conflict situations

  Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2004

  This study looks at the different relations between development policy and the military in crises and post-conflict situations. It analyses the views of the actors involved, including development and humanitarian NGOS, and looks at the existing development-military interfaces.
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  The political economy of growth in Morocco

  Global Development Network, 2003

  Growth rates in Morocco and overall performance have been very low despite reform measures taken. This paper attempts to provide an analysis of the situation by applying the political economy of growth theory.
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  Financial sector development in the Middle East and North Africa

  International Monetary Fund, 2004

  Based on data collected on a wide range of financial sector indicators, this paper assesses financial sector development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
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  Gender, education and child labour in Egypt

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2004

  This study analyses existing literature on the education and gender aspects of child labour. It explores the linkages between child labour, gender and education and highlights areas for further research and programme/policy interventions.The paper looks at the causes of child labour, its prevalence and distribution in Egypt.
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  Reshaping the future: education and post conflict reconstruction

  World Bank, 2005

  This study discusses the issues and challenges around education, poverty and conflict; and the impact of conflict on education. It presents the case that there are significant opportunities for education sector reform in post conflict reconstruction situations, and that education has a key role in both preventing conflict and rebuilding fractured post conflict societies.
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  Employment and unemployment in Egypt: conventional problems, unconventional remedies

  Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES), Egypt, 2002

  What determines the economy's ability to create sufficient employment to absorb the increase in the labour force under recent conditions?
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  Adaptation to climate change for sustainable development in the coastal zone of Egypt

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004

  This paper highlights that fact that Egypt is one of the most vulnerable countries to the impacts of climate change.
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  Gender, education and child labour in Lebanon

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2004

  This study examines the topic of gender, education and child labour in Lebanon, and argues that despite the limited availability of related information at the national level, there are indications of the existence of some factors and variables that impede the full realisation of the development of children in Lebanon.
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  African Economic Outlook 2003/2004

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004

  The third edition of the African Economic Outlook assesses recent economic changes and likely evolutions and challenges on the continent.

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