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  Regional patterns of disability-free life expectancy and disability-adjusted life expectancy: Global Burden of Disease Study

  ProCor, 1997

  Information on non-fatal health outcomes of disease and injury has been largely neglected in health planning because of the conceptual and definitional complexity of measuring morbidity and disability in populations. One of our major objectives was to quantify disability for inclusion in health policy debates.
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  West African regional security in the post Liberian conflict era : issues and perspectives

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997

  The paper attempts to analyse ECOWAS’ security regime’s first major effort towards enforcing compliance with its norms and values. The recent resolution of the Liberian conflict and Charles Taylor’s election to the Presidency may give cause for satisfaction but this paper argues that this may be premature as a result of what we see as the ethical questions that may arise.
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  White Paper on Japan's Foreign Direct Investment 1998: summary

  Japan External Trade Organisation, 1998

  With a focus on Japan, considers trends in global foreign direct investment, and offers a country/region overview. Includes supporting statistical data.
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  Would the right tariff aggregator please stand up?

  Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1997

  The conventional use of import weighted averages in tariff aggregation has little theoretical basis. We build on the Anderson-Neary Trade Restrictiveness Index (TRI) and define ways in which a detailed set of tariffs may be aggregated consistently for use in a computable general equilibrium model.
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  How Rural Market Imperfections Shape the Relation Between Farm Size and Productivity: a General Framework and an Application to Pakistani Data

  Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1996

  The subject of this article is the alleged inverse relationship between farm size and productivity in developing countries. The recent controversy is reviewed, and a framework is provided to explain the inverse relationship based on plausible assumptions about imperfections in the markets for labor, credit and land. On this basis testable hypotheses are derived.
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  World Labour Report 1997-98: Industrial relations, democracy and social stability

  International Labour Organization, 1999

  The summary and statistical appendix of this report are available on WWW.
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  World Economic Outlook: May 1998: Financial Crises: Causes and Indicators

  International Monetary Fund, 1998

  Biannual assessment of global economic prospects. This issue deals extensively with the causes and projected consequences of the 1997/8 financial turmoil in East Asia.Includes a statistical appendix.
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  Stock Markets, Banks, and Economic Growth

  Economic Growth Project, World Bank, 1996

  Dataset available onlineDo well-functioning stock markets and banks promote long-run economic growth? This paper shows that stock market liquidity and banking development both positively, predict growth, capital accumulation, and productivity improvements when entered together in regressions, even after controlling for economic and political factors.
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  Life during growth

  Economic Growth Project, World Bank, 1997

  Working paper and datasetThe progress of life during growth is surprisingly uneven. This paper reaches this conclusion with a panel dataset of 95 indicators covering up to 4 time periods (1960, 1970, 1980, and 1990).
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  Indigenous Soil Classifications: What are their structure and function, and how do they compare with scientific soil classifications?

  International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences, 1994

  Focuses on two themes in the study of ethnopedology: (1) the hows and whys of indigenous soil classifications. (2) the differences and overlaps between indigenous soil classifications and western soil classifications. Aims to come to a synthesis of how to link the two sources of information to improve the success of cooperation in sustainable agricultural development.

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