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    A guide for monitoring and evaluation of Avian Influenza programs in Southeast Asia

    MEASURE Evaluation, 2008
    As the world enters its sixth year of responding to the challenges posed by highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), the international community has recognized the need to move from an emergency mindset to a mid- to long-term perspective. Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) systems form a critical element in these longer-term approaches.
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    SOS Children

    SOS Children supports children in the community with "home support" for child-led families (where parents have died of HIV-AIDS), medical care, food security projects, schooling and training
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    Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging

    MEA is a research institute and part of the Faculty of Law and Economics, Department of Economics of Mannheim University.
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    Poverty impacts of an economic partnership agreement between Uganda and the EU

    Institute for International Integration Studies, Ireland, 2008
    Ugandan exports to the European Union (EU) are eligible for duty-free access. Thus, the main impact of an economic partnership agreement (EPA) between Uganda and the EU will be to require liberalisation of EU exporters’ access to the Ugandan market.
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    Minicipal international co-operation: Kristiansand (Norway) and Walvis Bay (Namibia)

    Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 2008
    Commissioned by the Norwegian Association for Local and Regional Authorities (KS), this report evaluates the Municipal International Co-operation (MIC) between Walvis Bay, Namibia and Kristiansand, Norway.
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    Grand coalitions for unpopular reforms: building a cross-party consensus to raise the retirement age

    Social and Economic Dimensions of an Aging Population, 2008
    A striking feature of pension reforms in the advanced industrialised countries is their scant use of what would be the most effective solution to the problems of pension expenditure growth and income insecurity in old age: the increase of the retirement age to more than 65 years.
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    Al Qaeda in the west as a youth movement: the power of a narrative

    Microcon, 2008
    In recent years there has been a strong focus on ‘Islamic radicalisation’ in Europe, due both to the threat of terrorism and its security implications, and to the issue of integrating second generation migrants in Europe. This paper analyses two main approaches to studying the roots of radicalisation.
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    Reforming the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy: health check, budget review, Doha Round

    European centre for international political economy, 2008
    While the European Commission has tabled a proposal for reforming the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the World Trade Organisation (WTO) might necessitate further decisions on agricultural tariff cuts at any time. Related to that, this policy brief argues in favour of a fundamental reform of agricultural policy in the European Union (EU).
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    Dialogue of the deaf. An assessment of Europe’s developmental approach to trade negotiations

    Interchurch Organization for Development Cooperation, 2008
    The European Union (EU) presents itself as an ally of developing countries in trade negotiations. It makes out to be sensitive to their concerns and looking out for shared interests as a partner. This has been the case particularly in the EPA negotiations. This research from ICCO aims to test how far European negotiators are living up to these supposed objectives.
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    The sustainability of European health care systems: beyond income and ageing

    Department of Economics, University of Verona, Italy, 2008
    During the last three decades, health care expenditure (HCE) has grown more quickly than GDP in all OECD countries. Against this background, this paper looks at the determinants of rising HCE:

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