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  Global rules for business: challenges to firm competitiveness and opportunities for success

  Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES), Egypt, 2000

  This paper reviews how MENA countries have fared in the global economy and outlines the challenges and opportunities arising from the global changes in the economic environment by reviewing several economic indicators.The author suggests that the main challenges facing the region are:the implimentation of the Uruguay Round Agreements coming into force soon which will affect market acces
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  The development divide in a digital age: an issues paper

  World Dialogue on Regulation for Network Economies, 2001

  This paper considers the role that information and communications technologies (ICTs) can realistically be expected to play in improving the level of living and quality of life of people in different parts of the world.The paper argues that the likelihood that people in low-income countries can improve their life chances is often sharply limited not only by their lack of access to modern means
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  The Bucharest pan-European conference in preparation of the world summit on the information society: towards an information society: principles, strategy and priorities for action

  International Telecommunication Union, 2002

  The Member States of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe met in Bucharest at the Pan-European Conference on the Information Society (7-9 November 2002) and agreed on the following set of principles and priorities:securing access to information and knowledge: individuals and organisations should benefit from access to information, knowledge and ideas.
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  Financing water for the world: an alternative to guaranteed profits

  Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2003

  This paper assesses the initiatives of the Global Water Partnership and World Water Council, and the European Union to address the question of financing the development and extension of water supply and sanitation in developing countries.The paper argues that both of them give a central role to using donor aid to leverage further funds for investment from private sector water companies.
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  Globalization and equity in the Arab World

  Global Development Network, 2003

  Research into the practical experience of globalisation shows it to be a process of rapid economic integration among countries driven by liberalisation of trade, investment and capital flows, as well as technological change, so why is globalisation feared in the Arab world?
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  GM crops: going against the grain

  ActionAid International, 2003

  This paper asks: Do GM crops help eradicate poverty? Do GM crops meet the needs of poor farmers? Do they threaten basic rights? Do GM crops threaten biodiversity? Do GM crops enhance informed choice and participation for poor people?Conclusion: The widespread adoption of GM crops seems likely to exacerbate the underlying causes of food insecurity, leading to more hungry people, not fewer.
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  Rural energy and development for two billion people: meeting the challenge for rural energy and development

  World Bank, 1997

  This brochure describes the plight of the two billion without access to modern forms of energy, such as electricity and oil, and summarises the many ways in which their situation can be improved.The paper argues that the Bank should not concentrate on reforming existing energy markets alone, any reform will fail in the long run if it does not benefit the whole population.
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  From aid to partnership: a joint review of Norwegian - South African development cooperation 1995-2001

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2003

  The study provides an overview and an assessment of the Norwegian development assistance to South Africa since the first democratic elections in 1994.The report finds that nearly one billion Norwegian kroner were disbursed from Norway to South Africa during the first seven years.
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  Sustaining local level development: what worked and what did not: lessons from the phasing-out of Norwegian aid to the Hambantota Integrated Rural Development Programme (HIRDEP), Sri Lanka 1992-1999

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2003

  This paper examines what happens when funding for a project reaches its phase-out stage and the project must stand alone. It summarises the main experiences and lessons from twenty years of the Hambantota Integrated Rural Development Programme (HIRDEP), with a focus on the last phase from 1992 to 1999.Findings include:the phasing-out did not go as initially planned.
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  The halfway proposition: background paper on reverse subsidy of G8 countries by African ISPs

  Association of African Internet Service Provider Associations, 2002

  The Aim of the Halfway Proposition is to articulate the root causes of high connectivity costs in Africa and to map out a strategy of how to tackle the problem.The paper argues that the current burden of paying for International Internet Bandwidth Costs is unfairly weighted onto countries in Africa and that the existence of these reverse subsidies is the single largest factor contributing to hi

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