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    An analysis of the innnovative capacity of the Tunisian firms: a patent approach

    Global Development Network, 2002
    Has the patent led to invention and innovation in Tunisia? This study aims to examine the ability of the Tunisian firms to invent and innovate in comparison to their competitors.The paper first points out the qualities and loopholes of the patent as an indicator of inventive and innovative activity through a review of the literature relevant to this field.
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    Cancun 2003: A look at trade and development in the Middle East and North Africa

    World Bank, 2003
    This short interview with the World Bank Chief Economist for the Middle East and North Africa Region briefly examines the regionally important issues for the WTO Ministerial in Cancun.Among the key issues identified are:trade in services: challenges remain with behind the border holding the region back yet opportunities exist for the region to benefit from increasing liberalisation in t
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    Iraq: FMO research guide

    Forced Migration Online, 2003
    This research guide provides an overview of Iraq’s key geographic and thematic information on forced migration issues, and gathers together important resources available online and elsewhere.
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    Identifying vulnerable groups in the Kyrgyz labour market: some implications for the national Poverty Reduction Strategy

    Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economic and Related Disciplines (STICERD), LSE, 2003
    This paper investigates the overlap between work and labour market status and identifies those groups at risks of poverty and social exclusion in the labour market in the Kyrgyz Republic. A particular attention is devoted to the working poor and precarious workers.
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    Organized labour in the 21st century

    International Labour Organization, 2002
    This report presents a representative sample of the comparative research undertaken by the International Institute for Labour Studies on comparative research on “Trade union responses to globalization”. It involves 15 countries namely, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Ghana, India, Israel, Japan, Republic of Korea, Lithuania, Niger, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia and USA.
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    Has improved availability of health expenditure data contributed to evidence-based policy making? Country experiences with national health accounts

    Partners for Health Reformplus, 2003
    National Health Accounts (NHA) is a tool designed to inform the health policy process. It aims to do so by providing policymakers with valuable information on the distribution of health funds within the system.
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    Rebuilding Iraq's shattered universities

    SciDev.Net, 2003
    This article argues that despite the recent opening of Baghdad's Al-Mansour University College, Iraq's once-proud university system is weakened by more than a decade of economic sanctions, brain drain, and political oppression. Scores of academic buildings around the country were bombed, looted, and burned during the US invasion.
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    The public health system in Afghanistan: current issues

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2002
    This paper demonstrates that Afghanistan's health system is in a state of near total disrepair.
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    From victory to success: afterwar policy in Iraq

    Foreign Policy [Journal], 2003
    What message did Saddam’s fall send to other dictators? Will it help the world reach a new consensus on how to handle weapons of mass destruction? What is the best way to rebuild Iraq? How can the United States recover its legitimacy in the eyes of much of the world? This paper addresses these questions in order to help determine history’s verdict on the wisdom of the war.
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    An empirical evaluation of the implementation of the bonus-malus system in the Tunisian automobile insurance ratemaking

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2001
    Has a new system of car insurance increased security and reduced the number of accidents on the roads in Tunisia? This paper attempts to empirically assess the impact of the introduction of system reform and the pricing of car insurance on road security in Tunisia. Most insurers around the world have introduced some form of merit-rating in automobile third party liability insurance.

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