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  Return to Colonialism: The New Orientation of European Development Assistance (Greenidge / DSA)

  Development Studies Association, UK and Ireland, 1999
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  Europe's Lome Policy in Perspective (Lister / DSA)

  Development Studies Association, UK and Ireland, 1999
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  Distribution of income and the income tax burden in Bulgaria

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  The empirical analysis of Bulgaria's income distribution and income tax burden indicates that the country has low income inequality although this is changing rapidly.
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  Informal regulation of industrial pollution in developing countries : evidence from Indonesia

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  The pollution intensity of emissions is much higher for plants located in poorer, less educated communities than in richer, better educated ones. This difference appears to be too large to reflect preferences alone.
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  Income inequality, welfare and poverty : an illustration using Ukrainian data

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  The standard of living in Ukraine increased significantly in the 1980s, and income inequality declined. But in 1991 92 income inequality and poverty increased again, partly because government benefits went more to richer families than to those in need.Ukraine is now faced with economic crisis on an unprecedented scale.
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  Macroeconomic effects of terms - of - trade shocks : the case of oil - exporting countries

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  The experience of 18 oil exporting countries (from 1973 to 1989) suggests that permanent terms of trade shocks have a significant positive effect on consumption, investment, and output, particularly of non tradables. There is almost no effect on savings, and an adverse effect on the trade balance.
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  Analytical tools for human development [the conceptual basis for UNDP Human Development Index / development indicators]

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1999

  This paper briefly presents the analytical tools developed in the Human Development Reports since their inception in 1990 and describes their potential uses in national settings. Includes descriptions of the Human Development Index (HDI), Human Poverty Index (HPI), Gender-related Development Index (GDI) and Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM).
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  Local Agenda 21 Survey: A Study of Responses by Local Authorities and Their National and International Associations to Agenda 21 (ICLEI)

  ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, 1999
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  Enterprise restructuring in Eastern Europe : how much, how fast, where? : preliminary evidence from trade data

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  The Czech Republic, the Eastern European country that has pursued mass privatization most actively and credibly, has also done best in restructuring its industries and reorienting them toward world markets.
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  The Industrial Pollution Projection System

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Most developing countries have little or no data on industrial pollution, but many of them have fairly detailed industry survey information on employment, value added, or output.

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