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    A toolkit for progressive policymakers in developing Countries

    Overseas Development Institute, 2006
    Over the last decade the UK government has been promoting the concept of ‘evidence-based policy’ (EBP). This toolkit aims to identify lessons and approaches from EBP in the UK, which may be valuable for developing countries.
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    Decontaminating subjective corruption indicators

    Public Management Institute, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2005
    This paper argues that general subjective corruption indicators run the risk of reflecting citizens’ general predispositions towards government, rather than actual experienced corruption.
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    Social impacts of global cotton production

    International Cotton Advisory Committee, 2008
    This paper reviews and categorises the most significant social science studies of labour and social impacts in cotton cultivation in ten focus countries, identified as the largest producers by volume. It identifies and evaluates the key existing data and information sources on the social impacts, positive and negative, of global cotton cultivation.
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    The international response to highly pathogenic Avian Influenza: science, policy and politics

    STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2008
    Over the last decade, the Avian Influenza virus, H5N1, has spread across most of Asia and Europe and parts of Africa. A major international response has been launched, backed by over US$2 billion of public money. Huge numbers of poultry have been culled, vaccination campaigns have been implemented and markets have been restructured.
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    The challenge of assessing aid impact: a review of Norwegian evaluation practice

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2008
    The aim of this report is to contribute to a discussion on how to strengthen the evaluation practice of Norwegian aid. Norwegian aid authorities, in recent policy documents, emphasise the need for improved methods for assessing impacts of development aid. The issue is also one of setting sound and realistic objectives for aid.
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    Article XXIV and RTAs: how much wiggle room for developing countries?

    South Centre, 2008
    The issue of "WTO Compatibility" of regional trade areas (RTAs) has been intensely debated ever since the days of the GATT. This paper argues for the need to insert strong special and differential treatment (S&D) treatment clauses into article XXIV, which governs RTAs but does not have a development dimension.
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    National accounts of well-being: bringing real wealth onto the balance sheet

    New Economics Foundation, 2009
    In the wake of the world financial crisis, persistent poverty and the threat of climate change, it is increasingly apparent that economic growth alone is an inadequate means to more stable and content societies. But planning processes rely on accounting systems which are, as yet, confined to economic indicators such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
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    Interaction between EU carbon trading and international institutions: synergies or disruptions?

    Ecologic Centre for International and European Environmental Research, Berlin, 2008
    This paper discusses various dimensions of the developing positive and negative interactions between the company focused EU emissions trading (ETS) and country focused global carbon trading and other relevant global institutions. Three main cases of interaction are analysed. The author considers the interaction between the Kyoto Protocol and the ETS as target.
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    Grandparents and grandchildren: impact of migration in Moldova. HAI/UNICEF project findings and recommendations

    HelpAge International, 2008
    The economic collapse in Moldova caused by the long transition period from central planning to a market based economy has led to poverty and high migration of labour force. Moldova is now the poorest country in Europe with an economy still recovering from the break up of the former Soviet Union.
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    Mid-term review of CHN - 2152 capacity building on environmental protection bureau in Guizhou Province

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2008
    This report covers the mid-term review of the project Capacity Building in Environmental Protection Bureau in Guizhou Province, PR China.  The report contains a brief introduction to the project features and a systematic review of the most significant aspects of the project, together with the team’s own assessment of the project performance and status.

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