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  Algeria: the politics of fundamentalism and extremism

  Africa Institute of South Africa, 2003

  This working paper investigates the evolution of fundamentalism in Algeria since independence in 1963.
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  New modalities for educational aid

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2000

  This open file is dedicated to 'Rethinking Educational Aid' and consists of seven papers which were presented at the conference on 'Education innovation in the South: modalities for international support revisited', Netherlands, 1999.
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  Macroeconomic instability, capital accumulation and growth: the case of Turkey 1963-1999

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2002

  Turkey has suffered chronic macroeconomic instability over the last twenty five years. Has this affected economic growth? This study investigates the growth experience of Turkey from 1963 to 1999 and using econometric techniques, analyses the empirical relationships between macro-economic instability, public investment, private investment and growth in Turkey during this period.
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  Sources of economic growth and technical progress in Egypt: an aggregate perspective

  Global Development Network, 2001

  Egypt’s economic growth record has been uneven from the 1950s till the late 1990s. What caused these fluctuations in growth? This study analyzes the sources of aggregate economic growth in Egypt from 1960 until 1998.
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  Process indicators for maternal mortality programmes

  Reproductive Health Matters, 1997

  Published in Reproductive Health Matters, this article argues that using process indicators to monitor progress in maternal mortality reduction programmes is more effective than using the traditional impact indicators such as maternal mortality rate. The latter requires data collection that is often expensive and long-winded.
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  Water justice for all: global and local resistance to the control and commodification of water

  Friends of the Earth International, 2003

  This report explores the issue of global water justice.
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  Humanitarian action and the global war on terror: a review of trends and issues

  Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2003

  This report reviews key trends in humanitarian policy, focusing on the implications for humanitarian action of the global 'war on terrorism'.
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  Verbal autopsy

  World Health Organization, 2003

  This review from the World Health Organization (WHO) looks at the use of verbal autopsy interviews to identify which women die from pregnancy-related causes and why. Verbal autopsy is a technique whereby surviving family members or other informants are interviewed to elicit the deceased’s cause of death.
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  Migrant workers and xenophobia in the Middle East

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2003

  This paper analyses trends in migration to oil rich and other labour receiving countries in the Middle East, as well as discussing causes, patterns and cases of labour-related xenophobia throughout the region.Highlights of the paper include:the major influx of foreign workers into the Middle East began following the oil price boom in 1973, which resulted in an enormous surge of wealth f
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  Reducing maternal mortality: learning from Bolivia, China, Egypt, Honduras, Indonesia, Jamaica, and Zimbabwe

  World Bank, 2003

  This study, produced by the World Bank, reviews case studies of maternal health programmes in Bolivia, China, Egypt, Honduras, Indonesia, Jamaica and Zimbabwe. Research was prompted by the question of whether current programme strategies could reduce maternal mortality more quickly than the decades required in the historically successful countries of Malaysia and Sri Lanka.

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