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  Terrorism and human rights

  Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2007

  The primary objectives of an effective counter-terrorism effort are to safeguard human rights, strengthen democracy and uphold the Rule of Law. The response to terrorism can neither be selective nor lead to unleashing a wave of unbridled repression, which would, as a consequence, enormously infringe upon the rights of the citizens.
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  Developmental regimes in Africa - synthesis report

  Africa Power and Politics (APP) / Developmental Regimes in Africa (DRA), 2015

  In 2012, two large research programmes reported final results that shed new light on fundamental questions about the past and future development of Africa.
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  Institutional sphere contribution to human development: an institutional approach

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2011

  The institutions have been considered as a major determinant of development with the new institutional economics. The main objective of this paper is to emphasise the importance of integrating the institutional indicator component for evaluating human development.
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  A Cautionary Note on the Interpretation of Unit Labor Costs as an Indicator of Competitivenes, with Reference to the Philippines

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007

  This note shows that unit labor costs, the most widely used measure of competitiveness, are equivalent to the labor share in output multiplied by a price-adjustment factor. This has three main implications. First, unit labor costs are not just a technical concept.
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  BRICS: emergence of health agenda

  International Organisations Research Institute, 2014

  Health is an indispensable public good. At the national level, it has been manifested in the commitment of the BRICS members of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa to scale up health financing. At the global level, it is evidenced by the international community progress on the three health-related Millennium Development Goals.
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  Puzzling over the pieces: regional integration and the African Peer Review Mechanism

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015

  Regional integration has long been recognised as an important vehicle for Africa’s development; currently, the African Union (AU) officially intends achieving a continent-wide common market by 2023 and a currency union by 2018. One of the goals of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), the continent’s indigenous governance assessment system, is to promote regional integration.
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  Ethnic identity, informal institutions, and the failure to elect women in indigenous Southern Mexico

  2013

  This article argues that the low levels of descriptive representation of women in local political office in Mexico and Latin America is much more than a problem of the purported patriarchal cultures of indigenous and rural communities.
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  Winds of change: the progress of open government policymaking in Latin America and the Caribbean

  Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2013

  The year 2013 has become known as the year of Open Government. The continuing progress of the Open Government Partnership represents the consolidation of a process that, in less than two years, has strengthened the promotion and implemention of public policies.
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  Measuring compliance with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: the ongoing challenge of judicial independence in Latin America

  Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, 2013

  Latin American democratic institutions are currently under stress due to a weakening of the rule of law, high levels of crime, corruption and impunity and opaque separation of powers. The judiciary remains weak in relation to the military in spite of the transition to democracy. This context negatively impacts compliance with orders issued by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
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  Does participatory budgeting have an effect on the quality of public services? The case of Peru’s water and sanitation sector

  Global Development Network, 2013

  Since 2004 the government of Peru has implemented a process of participatory budgeting (PB), which is mandatory for every sub-national government. This paper analyses the link from PB to coverage and water service quality indicators.

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