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  Enhancing the competitiveness and productivity of small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) in Africa: an analysis of differential roles of national governments through improved support services

  Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa, 2002

  This paper studies the role of small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) in African development, the constraints that currently hamper their ability to fulfil this role, and measures which could enhance their competitiveness and effectiveness.
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  Gender, education and child labour in Turkey

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2004

  This study examines the interrelationships among gender, education and child labour.
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  Progress or peril? measuring Iraq’s reconstruction

  Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, 2004

  This report sets out to develop a broad-based, data-rich, multidisciplinary model for measuring progress of reconstruction in Iraq that has as its core the Iraqi perspective. It is based on data covering the period form June 2003- July 2004.As this report shows, Iraqis are judging U.S.
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  Towards transparency: progress on global sustainability reporting 2004

  CorporateRegister.com, 2004

  Sustainability reporting has emerged over the past decade as a response to a demand for greater transparency regarding business impacts on sustainable development. This report maps the progress on sustainability reporting globally, and by region.
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  Private tutoring expenditures in Turkey

  Economic Research Center, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, 2004

  Private tutoring especially for the purpose of preparation for the competitive university entrance examination is an important and widespread phenomenon in Turkey. This study starts by giving an overview of private tutoring centers.
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  Economic development and female labor force participation in Turkey: time-series evidence and cross-province estimates

  Economic Research Center, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, 2001

  Recently, several researchers hypothesised that the female labour force participation rate exhibits a U-shape during the process of economic development.
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  The role of public sector in managing economic development through restructuring and rehabilitation and modernization of its management

  The Concept Mafhoum, 2002

  The full text of the document is in ArabicThis paper attempts to reevaluate the experience of the industrial sector belonging to the Syrian government and how it might be put back on the track of productivity as part of any development plan . The author makes a number of recommendations as to how to improve the productivity of the industrial public sector and activate its social role.
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  Fiscal deficits, public absorption and external imbalances: an empirical examination of the Moroccan case

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2001

  There is a debate among economists on the relationship between fiscal and external surpluses. This paper attempts to estimate the links between fiscal and external surpluses in Morocco.In measuring variables and specifying behavioural relationships, multiple approaches are adopted.
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  Global child labour data review: a gender perspective (vol. 3)

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2004

  This report provides an analysis of child labour disaggregated by sex. It reviews existing child labour data, specifically from a gender perspective, and provides a detailed review of and comparison between six countries, Ecuador, Ghana, the Philippines, Dominican Republic, South Africa and Turkey to look at general trends in child labour and sex differentials.
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  Progress for children: a child survival report card

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2004

  This UNICEF report looks at trends in the indicators for the fourth MDG, which aims for a two-thirds reduction of under-five mortality rates between 1990 and 2015. Tracing back to the 1960s it takes a regional and global analysis to the achievements in reducing child mortality.

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