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  Gender and sustainable development in drylands: an analysis of field experiences

  Gender and Development, FAO Sustainable Dimensions, 2003

  With an estimated 40 percent of people in Africa, South America and Asia living in drylands, land degradation poses a significant threat to food security and survival. This report looks at the relationship between gender and dryland management based on an analysis of field experiences in Africa and Asia.
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  Postal services in a rapidly developing IT and telecommunications world: the case for postal sector reform in Egypt.

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

  This paper analyzes the status of Egypt’s postal services.
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  African media and ICT4D: documentary evidence

  African Information Society Initiative, 2003

  This study is aimed at encouraging journalism and coverage of ICTs and Information Society issues.
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  Export led industrialization and gender differences in job creation

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2001

  This paper investigates gender differences in job creation and destruction patterns in Turkey for the period 1986-96, which coincides with a period of substantial trade liberalization. Using econometric analysis, the paper finds that job creation and destruction rates differ by skill level (unskilled, skilled, non-production) for workers of the same gender.
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  Access denied! Doctors in India and Yemen struggle to get the latest information

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Evidence-based medicine is central to medical education and clinical practice in wealthy nations. Meanwhile, lack of information is a major barrier to better healthcare in developing countries. Researchers from the UK University of Southampton explore the obstacles to and opportunities for updating medical knowledge in the developing world.
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  Planning together: women, decision-making and health in Egypt

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  What is the best way to make sure women’s health projects actually meet the needs of the target groups?  Does community involvement in the planning process make a difference? The Salammbo Group considered the effectiveness of ‘collaborative planning’, a process involving many different groups in the decision-making process, in women’s health projects in Egypt.
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  A fresh start for Iraq: the case for debt relief

  Oxfam, 2003

  This paper makes a case for writing off Iraq's debt incurred as foreign aid during Saddam Hussein's regime. It argues that the country's dect is unpayable, but also that there are wider moral and legal grounds for reducing Iraq's debt as odious and illegitimate.
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  Food security, poverty, and economic policy in the Middle East and North Africa

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper examines household and country level food security issues in the MENA region looking broadly at economic, policy and environmental factors and assessing their impacts.It finds that in the MENA region household food insecurity is most severe in rural areas and concentrated within Iraq, Sudan, and Yemen and argues that the key to increased national and household-level food security is
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  Towards good water governance

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Have water sector professionals thought enough about governance?  Supporters of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) have set out a vision of equitable, affordable and sustainable water services – but what type of governance is needed to make it a reality? How can decentralisation and gender mainstreaming be incorporated into water governance?
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  Reconstructing Iraq: a guide to the issues

  Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2003

  The military victory in Iraq has given rise to the challenge of rebuilding the country and delivering on President Bush’s promise of a free and democratic future for the Iraqi people. Yet post-war reconstruction and transition to self-governance are complex and extremely difficult challenges, and the case of Iraq poses unique problems.

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