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    Can market forces guide the use of irrigation water?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Some people argue that water is a basic human need that should remain free from market controls. But others believe that market forces are the best way to meet all the competing demands on this resource.
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    Future characteristics of the elderly in developing countries and their implications for policy

    Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2006
    This paper generates profiles of the elderly to 2050 on key characteristics for a set of thirteen developing countries that vary by region, size, economic level, and cultural traditions. Findings show dramatic shifts in the educational attainment and family size of the elderly over the next 30-40 years.
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    The Terms of Women's Empowerment: Islamic Women Activists in Egypt

    American University in Cairo, 2003
    How do Egyptian women find empowerment in Islamism when Islamists are traditionally perceived as the opposers of women's liberation? This study contends that rather than being dominated and oppressed, Islamic women are empowered as a result of their willing submission to higher levels of religious attainment.
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    Achieving quality distance learning in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Distance education and open learning can be flexible and cost effective. It is particularly important for women and others unable to attend full-time education in rural areas. However, while South Africa has around fifty providers, the rest of sub-Saharan Africa has very few.
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    Partnerships will improve girls’ education

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    The Millennium Development Goal to achieve gender equality in education can only be met by concerted action. Stronger partnerships are needed to increase opportunities for the millions of girls and women excluded from education, but what kind?
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    The state of the Arab media 2004: freeing the Arab media from state control

    Arab Press Freedom Watch, 2005
    The Arab Press Freedom Watch (APFW) is a country based report on the state of the media in the Arab world.
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    Gender and sport

    Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2005
    This paper provides insight into how to mainstream gender equality in sport and development projects. It covers all stages of project cycle management: analysis, consultation, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
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    Mobility for one language, diverse cultures

    MTC Mobile Telecommunications Co, 2006
    This paper examines the current mobile communications landscape in the MENA region and outlines the potential future opportunities and challenges expected to face the rapidly growing sector.
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    Tackling poverty-migration linkages: evidence from Ghana and Egypt

    Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2005
    This paper presents a quantitative analysis exploring whether the very poorest in a community are unlikely to migrate due to the high transaction costs associated with migration.
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    Privatisation in developing countries: a summary assessment

    Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES), Egypt, 2006
    Global privatisation goes back 25 years, but to what extent has the sale of state-owned enterprises to the private sector improved welfare? And what are the possible implications for the Middle East and North Africa region? The author of this paper - a senior research fellow at the Center for Global Development - addresses these questions, with a specific focus on Egypt.

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