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The Management of British Bilateral Aid and its Effectiveness
European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999This paper looks at how the Overseas Development Administration (ODA) manages the British bilateral aid programme. It initially examines its strategic approach to aid allocation and use. A major interest is how its aid objectives are translated into spending plans and activities through country programming and organisation and staffing of country delivery of aid.DocumentGlobalisation and Competitiveness: Relevant Indicators
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999To contend with the challenges of globalisation, firms have altered their strategies, strengthening the activities in which they were in a dominant position (refocusing), seeking to achieve critical size and attaching priority to external growth (mergers and acquisitions).DocumentAid and Other Resource Flows to the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) and the New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (NIS), 1990-1995
Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1999Fifth OECD survey of aid to CEECs/NIS contains detailed information on disbursements from each OECD country, several non-OECD countries and multilateral institutions in 1994 and 1995 by category of resource flow; detailed information on receipts of concessional and non-concessional finance by each CEEC and each NIS from all sources in 1994 and 1995; aggregate disbursement data for the period 1990DocumentEmployment is a Territorial Issue
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999Unemployment and job creation are central concerns of government. But analysis of the labour market to date have generally been based on the examination of national economies. Little is known about the diversity and dynamics of regional and local labour markets in which most individuals and enterprises are active.DocumentThe OECD-EUROSTAT compendium of sources of earnings statistics (1994)
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999DocumentLeague table of access to sanitation [statistics]
The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1999The sanitation league table does not provide exact rates of access to sanitation, nor does it rank countries on this basis. Rather, the table groups countries in broad categories by percentage of people with access to sanitation according to the national definition. These definitions vary both in type of toilet facility and in its distance from the home.DocumentSocial indicators for less populous countries [statistics and league tables]
The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1998The indicators used to construct the league tables in The Progress of Nations 1998 include: per cent of registered births; per cent of children not immunized against measles; and number of live births per 1,000 women age 15-19. Using the same indicators, the following table shows the progress of those countries with populations of less than 1 million.DocumentThe Progress of Nations Report, 1997
The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1999The Progress of Nations, an annual scorecard of the social health of nations, records achievements in the form of statistics that measure fulfilment of minimum human needs. The knowledge it unearths is fundamental to solving problems, because information is the first ingredient needed by those with the will and the means to make change.Pages