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  Property restitution in practice: the Norwegian Refugee Councils' experience

  Norwegian Refugee Council, 2005

  Despite considerable advances in human rights and humanitarian law in recent years, the right to land, housing and property restitution is only gradually gaining recognition. This paper assesses the experiences of displaced peoples' property rights in a variety of regions in which the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) works.
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  Framework for the integration of women in APEC

  Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, 2005

  This framework has been developed as a guide for APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) in their efforts to integrate women into mainstream economic processes and activities.It is designed to:support the elimination of barriers to women's full participation in the economyincrease their capacity to respond to the economic opportunities offered by tradeintegrate their economic i
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  Children and young people as citizens: partners for social change

  Save the Children Fund, 2003

  This document opens with a summary of positive outcomes from child participation and citizenship work in the South and Central Asia region.
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  People in transition: reforming education and health care

  World Bank, 1996

  This article, published by the World Bank, examines the education and health care systems of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the former Soviet Union and China, the problems that have arisen during the transition to a market-based economy in these countries, and argues that reforms are needed.
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  Conflict assessments: disturbing connections: aid and conflict in Kyrgyzstan

  Department for International Development, UK, 2001

  This report examines the sources of latent and open conflict in Kyrgyzstan, through the "lens" of a development donor, leading to an analysis of how current development policy and practice could be made more sensitive to the dynamics of conflict and peace.
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  Human capital and unemployment in transition economies: the case of Kosova

  Internet Documents in Economics Access Service, 2005

  Human capital influences an individual's productivity and therefore earnings and it also explains to a great extent earning differentials amongst individuals in the labour market. As such, human capital influences the probability of becoming and remaining unemployed.
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  Conducting conflict assessments: guidance notes

  Department for International Development, UK, 2006

  This booklet offers DFID staff and partner agencies’ staff guidance notes for analysing conflicts, assessing the effects of aid on conflicts, and developing conflict sensitive policies and programmes.Based on DFID experience in conflict assessment, the authors offer a three step strategy to assessing the impacts of conflict on development programming and the impact of development programming on
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  Regional media in conflict: case studies in local war reporting

  Institute for War and Peace Reporting, 2000

  This book explores the ways in which media promote and reflect conflict.
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  Informal payments for health care in the Former Soviet Union: some evidence from Kazakhstan

  Health Policy and Planning, 1998

  This paper, published in Health Policy and Planning, examines informal or under-the-table payments in Kazakhstan. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the health system has been kept operating during Kazakhstan’s difficult transition through informal contributions from patients to medical institutions and staff. However, there is little research-based evidence and few reliable statistics exist.
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  The effect of armed conflict on accumulation of schooling: results from Tajikistan

  Households in Conflict Network, 2006

  This paper examines the effect of the civil armed conflict from 1992 to 1998 in Tajikistan on the accumulation of schooling.

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