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  Bioenergy: promises and challenges

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  High oil prices and concerns about the environmental effects of fossil fuels have stimulated interest in bioenergy – renewable biofuels such as bioethanol, biodiesel, and biomass. Can bionergy fulfill the promise claimed by its advocates? Can it become an environmentally sustainable, economically viable, pro-poor source of energy?
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  The new politics of political aid in Venezuela

  Center for International Policy, 2007

  This paper critically addresses the United States democratisation strategy in Venezuela, looking at both the implications for Venezuela and the strategy’s credibility. The author argues that, five years after U.S.-funded groups were associated with a failed coup against Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez, the U.S.
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  Cross-country variation in obesity patterns among older Americans and Europeans

  Labour and Population Program, Rand, 2007

  In Europe, obesity rates are generally lower than in the U.S, but there is a rising trend in obesity that is being seen as a serious threat to public health and an important factor driving up health care costs.
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  How changes to family immigration could affect source countries' sending patterns

  Migration Policy Institute, 2007

  The USA Senate immigration bill (The Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Reform Act of 2007) includes a fundamental revision of family-based permanent immigration streams. This fact sheet looks at the likely impact of such reforms. This is important as the United States continue to debate changes to the immigration selection system.
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  The U.S response to precarious states: tentative progress and remaining obstacles to coherence

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2007

  This paper evaluates the U.S. policy response to fragile states. In tracing the origins of contemporary U.S. foreign policy interests, it highlights changing threat perceptions in the wake of 9/11 and perceived lessons of post-conflict difficulties in Afghanistan and Iraq. It also looks at the preventive efforts to reform and stabilise states at risk of failure.
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  Center for International Policy (CIP)

  CIP's mission is to promote a U.S. foreign policy based on international cooperation, demilitarization and respect for basic human rights.
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  Woman's Identity and the Qur'an: A New Reading

  University Press of Florida, 2004

  An original and uncompromising study of the Qur'anic foundations of women's identity and agency, this book is a bold call to Muslim women and men to reread and reinterpret the Qur'an, Islam's most authoritative source, and to discover within its revelations an inherent affirmation of gender equality.The book documents the historical development of Islamic thought and describes how Muslim males hav
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  Just security: an alternative foreign policy framework

  Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, 2007

  This document discusses the role that public engagement can play in changing U.S foreign policy. With a focus on the Bush administration, this report discusses five different challenges to be faced in the future: climate change, global poverty, nuclear weapons, terrorism and nuclear conflict.
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  Gender and Disability: A Survey of InterAction Member Agencies

  Mobility International USA, 2002

  Do women and girls with disabilities participate in international development processes? What data is collected on their involvement? This survey of 165 United States-based international development organisations shows that 93 percent of respondent organisations do not know the extent of participation of women and girls with disabilities in their programmes due to insufficient data.
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  Confronting the Sexual Abuse of Women with Disabilities

  National Electronic Network on Violence Against Women, 2005

  The false assumption that women with disabilities are not sexual beings has not freed them from sexual abuse. Yet the important research on the sexual abuse of women often ignores disability while disability research rarely considers the sexual abuse of women with disabilities. This paper examines the shortcomings of research methods in the United States.

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