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    Review of Norwegian support to Palestine through Norwegian NGOs: final report

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2009
    This report presents the outcome of review of the Norwegian support to Palestine through Norwegian NGOs. The purpose of the review was learning, with a view to improve future strategies and programmes. The review assessed the relevance, value added and adaptability of the Norwegian NGO support to the occupied Palestinian territory in light of a volatile country environment.
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    AGE: the European Older People’s Platform

    AGE, the European Older People’s Platform, aims to voice and promote the interests of older people in the European Union and to raise awareness of the issues that concern them most.
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    Meeting the challenge of demographic ageing in the context of the current crisis: a plea for greater intergenerational solidarity

    AGE: the European Older People’s Platform, 2009
    This document was released in conjunction with the inauguration of the first European Day of Intergenerational Solidarity and Cooperation, 29 April 2009, and is intended to launch discussion on the topic area.  It also supports the poposal for 2012 to be declared the European Year on Active Ageing and Intergenerational Solidarity.
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    Fiction, facts and future: Norad’s assistance to water supply and sanitation development in Tanzania and Kenya during the 70s, 80s and 90s

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2008
    The main purpose of this report is to provide an update on the status of the Norwegian investments made on the water supply and sanitation sector in Tanzania and Kenya during the 1970s, 80s and 90s. The report aims at drawing lessons from these programmes for the benefit of future programmes in water and sanitation world wide.
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    Building capacity for development and food security in Malawi: mid-term review of the Bunda College Capacity Building Programme (BCDP)

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2009
    This report summarises the findings of the mid-term review of the Bunda College Capacity Building Programme (BCDP), phase III, covering the period 2005–2010. The methodology includes perusal of existing documents, meetings with the Project Advisory Committee and qualitative interviews with key Bunda staff.
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    Older or wealthier? The impact of age adjustments on the wealth inequality ranking of countries

    Luxembourg Income Study, 2009
    Differences in individual wealth holdings are widely viewed as a driving force of economic inequality. However, as this finding relies on cross-section data, the authors of this paper argue that we may be confusing older with wealthier.
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    Strengthening Nordic development cooperation in and with Afghanistan

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2009
    The meeting of the Nordic Foreign Ministers in Stockholm on 18 April 2008 adopted a Plan of Action for Nordic Cooperation in Afghanistan to enable them to be a more concerned partner for the Government of Afghanistan (GoA) and the international community.
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    Pension schemes for the self-employed in OECD countries

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
    The self-employed workers make up a small but significant minority of the workforce in many OECD countries. Moreover, transitions into and out of self-employment have become much more common for a larger group of workers. It is therefore of critical importance to review and assess the pension schemes available to self-employed workers across OECD countries.
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    How to make European pensions adequate and sustainable?

    Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, 2009
    While social policy continues to be very much under the control of the individual member states, the EU dimension is increasingly important. Some regulation of pension investment is provided under the common market principle. Also, some aspects of the portability of pension rights are dealt with at the EU level.
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    A partnership among equals: examining the EU-ASEAN free trade agreement

    Transnational Institute, 2009
    The negotiations for a regional FTA represent a key component of both the global and regional economic integration strategies of both the EU and ASEAN. A distinct feature of these negotiations is the region-to-region approach. In this context, the current report addresses some questions:

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