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  The returns to health for Peruvian urban adults: differentials across genders, the life cycle and the wage distribution

  1999

  This report shows evidence about determinants of health status for urban adults and their effects on productivity.
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  The development of the state bond market

  Economic Education and Research Consortium,, Russian Federation, 1999

  This paper studies relations between various segments of the Russian financial market.
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  Globalisation and children’s rights: what role for the private sector?

  Save the Children Fund, 2002

  This report looks at two aspects of economic globalisation and how they impact on children's rights: foreign private sector investment and the privatisation of basic services.The two major concerns of the authors are that:the investment liberalisation agreements of the WTO are targeting the removal of government entry criteria for foreign investment that ensure such investment benefits
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  Eskom: corporate powerhouse or green company?

  Corporate Watch, 2002

  Eskom will be South Africa's number one Corporate Environmentalism Exhibit, during the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development, despite having contravened two of the Global Compact principles.The author details the negative behaviour of Eskom.
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  Enhancing learning opportunities in Africa: distance education and information and communication technologies for learning

  Africa Region Human Development Department, World Bank, 2002

  This report examines the contribution that distance education and ICTs have and can make in Africa.
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  The World Bank and the environment in the Caspian: a case study of the Kolkheti National Park

  BankWatch, 2002

  This report focuses on the construction of an oil terminal and related infrastructure inside one of Georgia’s national parks. The World Bank has a positive environmental objective in helping to finance the establishment of the Kolkheti National Park but this, the authors claim, is being undermined by the private development of the Kulevi Oil Terminal.
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  Determinants of private investment behaviour

  African Economic Research Consortium, 2000

  The primary objective of the study is to analyse the determinants of private investment in Ghana between 1970 and 1992.
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  Understanding good institutional design in hospital corporatization: a decision rights approach

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2000

  Corporatization is a hybrid organizational form between public sector ownership and privatization that is increasingly being adopted in the social sectors.
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  Nigeria: towards an optimal macroeconomic management of public capital

  African Economic Research Consortium, 2000

  This study uses state-level data on Nigeria to contribute to the literature on the connection between regional economic performance and infrastructure investment.At one level the findings add to the body of accumulated evidence suggesting a correlation between output and the availability of certain kinds of infrastructure.
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  Increasing trade and investment: policies, institutions, and development assistance

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002

  First in a series of USAID policy briefs which will "explore solutions to the challenges of international development".

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