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    Short - term stabilization versus long - term price stability : evaluating Namibia's membership of the Common Monetary Area

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995
    It was found in this paper that (i) because of the high degree of openness of the Namibian economy and its small size, the use of nominal exchange rate as an instrument of adjustment will have limited effects; (ii) that the costs associated with the loss of monetary autonomy are small; and (iii) that there exists a wide range of instruments to address the effects of asymmetric shocks, irrespective
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    The political economy of ethnicity

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998
    Paper investigates the effects of ethnic diversity on economic performance and the risk of violent conflict. Diversity has various detrimental microeconomic effects, tending to reduce public sector performance, increase patronage, and lower the level of trust among individuals. However, whether diversity adversely affects overall economic growth depends upon the political environment.
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    Building a Learning Network on Governance: The Experience of the Governance Cooperative

    Institute on Governance, 1998
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    Civil Society Bibliography

    North-South Institute, 1998
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    Measures of Participation in the Digital Techno-structure: Internet Access

    Science and Technology Policy Research, Sussex, 1998
    Paper offers a conceptual alternative to current survey measures of digital participation. Current measures (whether for home or work) dwell on physical access and the mere presence of digital appliances in people's lives. Almost nothing is known about variations in skills and use.
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    NAFTA Supplemental Agreements: Four Year Review

    Institute for International Economics, USA, 1998
    Examines the objectives and accomplishments to date of the NAAEC and the NAALC.1 It also includes a discussion of the USA-Mexico Border Environmental Cooperation Agreement (BECA) which was designed to address environmental infrastructure problems in the US-Mexican border region.
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    Venezuela: Exclusion and integration: a synthesis in the building?

    International Institute for Labour Studies, ILO, 1997
    This study proposes to contribute to the construction of a conceptual framework which is better adapted to the analysis of the various dimensions of poverty and its causes. It aims to extend the spectrum of differentiation between the "haves" and the "have-nots" of poverty, in order to conceptualize it as a situation of social exclusion/integration reflecting two sides of a same coin.
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    Labour institutions and technological change: A framework for analysis and a review of the literature

    International Institute for Labour Studies, ILO, 1993
    Assesses the degree to which workers participate in technological decisions, how they use their decision-making power, and how worker organizations interact with management to affect the degree and nature of participation in technology choice and use.
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    North Kivu: Into The Quamire?: An Overview of the Current Crisis in North Kivu [Zaire / Congo]

    International Crisis Group, 1998
    On 2 August 1998, barely 14 months after the fall of the late Zairian President Mobutu, a new armed movement in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo announced the beginning of another "war of liberation", this time against the regime of Laurent Désiré Kabila. The past few weeks have seen the situation slide quickly into violence.
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    Governance and Policy Formulation

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1997
    Summary proceedings of a 1997 meeting covering: The governance environment (including the evolving role of civil society and extra-governmental organisations) The locus of policy formulation: interface between politician and administrator Respective roles and functions of politicians, administrators and civil society: consideration of institutional issues raised by these.

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