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    The political economy of public sector employment in resource dependent countries

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    This paper proposes a political economic explanation for the well documented difference in labour market institutions between high natural resource per capita countries and those that are natural resource dependent but whose populations are large.
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    The African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) Group and the European Union (EU)

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2013
    This CCR seminar report addresses the potential for further strategic engagement between the 79-member ACP and the 28-member EU as the third five-year review of the Cotonou Agreement of 2000 on trade, aid, and political cooperation approaches in 2015, and as the end of the 20-year span of Cotonou in 2020 draws nearer.
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    Resource rents, political institutions and economic growth

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    The curse associated with oil and other point-source rents is real, though contemporary literature suggests that it is not inevitable. This paper contributes to the empirical literature on oil and other point-source resource curse, but its particular contribution is embedded in the measurement of the impact of resource rents on economic growth.
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    An empirical growth model for major oil exporters

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    This paper develops a long-run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil revenues are likely to have a lasting impact. The paper uses quarterly data on nine major oil economies, six of which are current members of OPEC.
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    Beliefs about causes and consequences of obesity among women in two Mexican cities

    Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2012
    Personal beliefs might be barriers to the prevention and treatment of obesity. To assess the beliefs about causes and consequences of and possible solutions to obesity among 18-40 years old women in two Mexican cities and to analyse the association with demographic variables, a questionnaire was developed to assess the women’s weight status.
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    Fiscal institutions in resource-rich economies: lessons from Chile and Norway

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    Arab oil exporters are at a critical juncture, facing the challenge of revamping their fiscal policy institutions. Correspondingly, this paper provides comparative reviews of Chile’s and Norway’s experience in setting up new fiscal institutions and rules to manage their resource rents, aiming at more macroeconomic and financial stability.
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    Multipolarity and the future of regionalism: Latin America and beyond

    German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2015
    This paper inquires into the effects of an emerging multipolar world on the international institution of regionalism.
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    Dietary quality maintained among overweight Brazilian women enrolled in a primary healthcare service

    Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2014
    Food consumption assessment is essential for understanding the relationship between diet and morbidity/mortality events and for providing information about the determinants of food intake, which, in turn, leads to the identification of population groups at risk, making it subsequently possible to propose public health policies or programmes.
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    Obesity epidemic in Brazil and Argentina: a public health concern

    Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2014
    The obesity epidemic is rapidly advancing in South America, leading to inevitable health consequences. Argentinian and Brazilian health policies try to become adapted to the new economic and social framework that follows from this epidemic. It is in incipient and ineffective control so far since the prevalence of obesity was not restrained.
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    Nutritional status of HIV-positive patients in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2014
    More than 600,000 AIDS cases have been reported in Brazil since the appearance of the first patient in 1980. Around 180,000 HIV-infected Brazilian patients are under combined antiretroviral therapy (cART), taking drugs supplied by the Ministry of Health and distributed all over the country through a network of public hospitals.

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