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    Reforming customs administration

    Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES), Egypt, 2003
    [Arabic Text]The study aims at addressing the problems facing market players in their dealings with Egypt’s customs administration and discusses ways to enhance their efficiency and effectiveness.The main problems faced include: high transaction costs, low tariff collection rates, and recurring disputes between traders and customs authorities lack of basic conditions necessary t
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    Labor and human capital policies in Arab countries: analysis of the Kuwaiti experience

    Arab Planning Institute, Kuwait, 2002
    [Arabic Text]The paper reviews the evolution of the Kuwaiti economy and tries to analyze human capital and labor policies and their impact on socio-economic development.The main findings of the paper are:the Kuwaiti economy depends on oil as a major - or even the only - source of revenue there is low production capacity in all non-oil producing sectors the dependence on oil r
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    An investigation of the use of information and communication technologies for teacher education in the global south: researching the issues

    Digital Education Enhancement Project, Open University, 2004
    This document provides the results of research which aimed to investigate how information and communications technologies (ICT), effectively used, could significantly improve the teaching and learning of literacy, numeracy and science in the primary schools of Egypt and South Africa.
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    Risk instability and the pattern of foreign direct investment in the Middle East and North Africa region

    International Monetary Fund, 2004
    The need to account for stability in investment risk is particularly important for countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, which historically have a higher level of instability associated with investment risk than developed countries.This paper presents an empirical analysis of risk instability of foreign direct investment (FDI) within the MENA region, in addition to recomm
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    Availability, access and usability of land for urban agriculture

    RUAF Urban Agriculture Magazine, 2003
    The report by the Urban Agriculture Magazine draws on numerous case studies from around the world in discussing issues of availability, access and usability of land for urban agriculture.Rapid urbanisation has lead to an increasing demand for urban agricultural land.
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    Pakistan’s Nuclear blackmarketing: North Korea, Iran and Libya

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2004
    Over the past two years, deep institutional and strategic linkages have been revealed between Pakistan and North Korea, Iran and Libya. Pakistani technology, know-how, and in some cases physical components have been found in each of the three aforementioned nuclear programmes.
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    Female genital cutting: breaking the silence, enabling change

    International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2000
    This report, from the International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW) and The Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA), synthesises the experiences, lessons and recommendations from three PROWID (Promoting Women in Development) projects addressing female genital cutting (FGC).
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    Reaching universal coverage via social health insurance: key design features in the transition period

    World Health Organization, 2004
    This paper, produced by the World Health Organisation, discusses the process of extending specific social health insurance (SHI) programmes in low and middle-income countries to cover entire populations.
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    In this generation: sexual and reproductive health policies for a youthful world

    Population Action International, 2002
    This report, produced by Population Action International, contrasts the way in which policies in Ghana, India, Iran, Mali, Mexico, the Netherlands and the United Sates have supported young people’s sexual and reproductive lives.
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    UNDP background paper for working group discussions: governance in post-conflict situations

    UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2004
    This report provides background papers on governance in post conflict situations, prepared for the United Nations Development Programme’s seminar in Bergen, Norway, May 2004.

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