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  Review of the strategic framework for Afghanistan

  Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2002

  The purpose of this review is to assess the extent to which the Strategic Framework for Afghanistan (SFA) has met its aims of improving the effectiveness of the assistance programme in Afghanistan and in making progress towards building peace.The paper concludes that whilst the SFA is a bold and imaginative initiative it has not yet achieved the objective of coherence between political, human r
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  Taking refugees for a ride? The politics of refugee return to Afghanistan

  Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2002

  This paper charts the course of the assisted repatriation programme organised by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), discusses its consequences for those who repatriated, those who did not, and for the pace of reconstruction in Afghanistan, and asks whether it should and could have been managed differently.The paper argues that in considering the return of r
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  Rebuilding Iraq's shattered universities

  SciDev.Net, 2003

  This article argues that despite the recent opening of Baghdad's Al-Mansour University College, Iraq's once-proud university system is weakened by more than a decade of economic sanctions, brain drain, and political oppression. Scores of academic buildings around the country were bombed, looted, and burned during the US invasion.
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  Does informal credit provide security? rural banking policy in India

  International Labour Organization, 2001

  This paper addresses rural banking and credit policy in contemporary India and its effect on credit portfolios of rural workers. It explores major directions of rural banking and credit policy and indicators of performance of this activity in India since 1969, when 14 major commercial banks were nationalized.
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  Zimbabweans who move: perspectives on international migration in Zimbabwe

  Southern African Migration Project, 2002

  What are the characteristics of migration into and out of Zimbabwe, and are they changing?
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  UN Sub-Commission draft norms on the responsibilities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises with regard to human rights

  United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, 2003

  This document constitutes a set of specific human rights guidelines on the diverse challenges affecting a broad range of industries. They are being presented for endorsement by the Human Rights Commission in March 2004.
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  Financing and aid management arrangements in post-conflict situations

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper is concerned with the specific issues of financing modalities and aid management arrangements in post-conflict situations, and advances a number of recommendations on the basis of a review of several recent cases.
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  From victory to success: afterwar policy in Iraq

  Foreign Policy [Journal], 2003

  What message did Saddam’s fall send to other dictators? Will it help the world reach a new consensus on how to handle weapons of mass destruction? What is the best way to rebuild Iraq? How can the United States recover its legitimacy in the eyes of much of the world? This paper addresses these questions in order to help determine history’s verdict on the wisdom of the war.
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  Land rights in crisis: restoring tenure security in Afghanistan

  Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2003

  This paper summarises the findings of a short exercise to identify land issues in present-day Afghanistan.
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  The extent and geographic distribution of chronic poverty in Iraq’s Center/South Region

  United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2003

  The paper describes an analysis of chronic poverty for the Center/South region of Iraq. It finds that one in five Iraqis or 4.6 million people suffer from chronic poverty. WFP had estimated before the war that 60% of the Iraqi population were entirely dependent on the monthly food rations.

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