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    Study of GEF project lessons: summary report

    Global Environment Facility, 1998
    Report synthesizes lessons learned to date from projects financed during GEF's Pilot Phase. It was prepared primarily for the benefit of project and task managers of GEF projects. The Project Lessons study underscores that even well designed projects evolve continuously, and their managers need to be able to deal with a variety of technical, social and political issues at the same time.
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    Swedish Development Cooperation with India - in a Poverty Reduction Perspective

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    The paper gives an overview of Sweden's development cooperation with India, viewed from a poverty reduction perspective. It is one of the products of a research project, entitled 'Comparative Study of European Aid for Poverty Reduction in India', carried out in 1997 by a group of four European and eleven Indian researchers.
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    Danish Development Cooperation with India - in a Poverty Reduction Perspective

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    The paper gives an overview of Denmark's official development cooperation with India, viewed from a poverty reduction perspective. It is one of the products of a research project, entitled 'Comparative Study of European Aid for Poverty Reduction in India', carried out in 1997 by a group of four European and eleven Indian researchers.
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    Considering HIV/AIDS in Development Assistance: A Toolkit

    AIDS Economics, World Bank, 1997
    Toolkit prepared to assist staff of the Commission of the European Communities, particularly those in DGVIII (both those in the Headquarters and Delegations), and Consultants, in considering the implications of the HIV epidemic in the provision of development assistance.Covers:An Introduction to HIV/AIDS.
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    Journalism in transition [sources on Eastern Europe]

    World Bank Institute, World Bank, 1999
    WWW site for journalists and other media professionals in the "Transition Zone"--formerly communist or developing countries now undergoing profound economic transformation.
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    Cost Benefit Analysis of Private Sector Environmental Investments: A Case Study of the Kunda Cement Factory

    International Finance Corporation, 1999
    Considers the case of a cement plant in Estonia and tries to answer the question: how do the (private) costs of curbing pollution compare to the (social) benefits to the population? While it is often easy to estimate costs, it is exceedingly difficult to capture the benefits, especially in developing and transition countries.
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    The Impact of the Information Society on the territorial planning of the less favoured regions [in Europe]

    Information Society Project Office, EU, 1997
    The purpose of the study is to examine how information society services and applications (ISSA) may best contribute to territorial planning in the less favoured regions, and in what ways this process may best be supported at a European level. Includes case studies of Scotland, Portugal and Greece
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    Green Paper on the Convergence of the Telecommunications, Media and Information Technology Sectors, and the Implications for Regulation: Towards an Information Society Approach

    Information Society Project Office, EU, 1997
    Nowadays digital technology allows a substantially higher capacity of traditional and new services to converge towards the same transporting networks and to use integrated consumer devices for purposes such as telephony, television or personal computing. Convergence is happening already on a global scale.
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    The Information Society and Development: the Role of the European Union

    Information Society Project Office, EU, 1997
    Recent trends towards the information society potentially concern most human activities, including learning, communication, work and leisure. This applies equally to the developing countries, notwithstanding the diversity of their market situations, policies or technological capacities.
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    Land, Forests and People in Finnish Aid in Zanzibar: Some Preliminary Observations

    Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, 1998
    Sets out to examine the question of aid provision. As part of a general study on Finnish aid, the main focus is on two projects in Zanzibar: Zanzibar Forestry Project (ZFP) and Zanzibar Integrated Lands and Environment Management (ZILEM) project. This study centres on initial research carried out in Dar es Salaam (documentary) and Unguja (documentary, observational and in-depth interviews).

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