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  Informal economy: safety valve or growth opportunity?

  Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2001

  This paper examines the informal sector in the light of the dynamic growth opportunities it presents.
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  Effects of globalization on the world of work

  Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2001

  This paper presents an assessment of the effects of globalization on the informal sector. It gives an analysis of the impact from the micro, meso and macro levels arguing that it could help in identifying the gaps in the responses to adjust to the challenges of globalization.
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  Rethinking the brain drain

  Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung, Bonn, 2003

  This paper addresses the concerns voiced by the World Development Report about the exodus of trained workers from poorer countries. It turns this concern on its head and argues that the prospect of migration can well be harnessed to induce individuals to form a socially desirable level of human capital.
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  New technologies in education: trends, risks and opportunities

  Education International, 2003

  The purpose of this paper is to discuss some of the recent changes in education and information and communication and examine the kind of developments we may expect. It examines changes in society, in business and in the home.
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  Educational attainment and HIV-1 infection in developing countries: a systematic review

  HIV/AIDS Impact on Education Clearinghouse, 2001

  This paper conducts a systematic review of the published literature on the relationship between educational attainment and HIV-1 in developing countries.Findings:large studies in four areas in Africa showed an increased risk of HIV-1 infection among the more educated, whilst among 21-year old Thai army conscripts, greater duration of schooling was strongly protective against HIV infecti
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  Researching teacher education: new perspectives on practice, performance and policy: multi-site teacher education research project (MUSTER)

  Department for International Development, UK, 2003

  The author conducts an extensive empirical study of different aspects of primary teacher education as it is practised in Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, South Africa (reported on in a separate document) and Trinidad and Tobago.
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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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  Speaking notes for World Social Forum event “GATS and the future of public services”

  Population Council, USA, 2003

  This paper expresses concern about the imbalance in global trade between developed and developing countries which is exacerbated by the service industries’ investment in developing countries without a commensurate movement of labour out of developing countries to provide services elsewhere.The paper demonstrates that the current GATS 2000 negotiations will significantly affect the provision of
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  Caribbean youth development: issues and policy directions

  World Bank, 2003

  The objectives of this report are threefold.
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  Education For All and consultations with teacher unions - report on the questionnaire on participation of teacher unions in the EFA process

  Education International, 2003

  In order to find out whether governments have been working according to the agreements made in the Dakar framework, EI developed a questionnaire for teacher's unions to discover whether they had been involved in planning and national EFA forums.The questionnaire contained three questions:whether teacher unions were aware of the existence of EFA forums in their countries and if their ans

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