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  Dignity counts: a guide to using budget analysis to advance human rights

  International Budget Partnership, 2004

  This paper aims to provide guidance to civil society organizations (CSOs) and others on how to use budget analysis as a tool to support the assessment of a government’s compliance with its economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights obligations.
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  Toilet wars: urban sanitation services and the politics of public-private partnerships in Ghana

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper examines the impact of the new forms of partnership between the public authorities and private/citizen-based organisations on urban environmental sanitation in the two largest cities of Ghana, namely, Accra and Kumasi.
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  Population health and foreign direct investment: does poor health signal poor government effectiveness?

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2005

  This policy brief assesses the links between the level of health of a population and the level of FDI in that country.The study finds that there is some empirical evidence that suggests that population health levels are indeed correlated with FDI, and that one reason why poor health depresses FDI—in addition to the traditional productivity arguments—is because it may serve as a signal of the ge
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  Doing business in or with Burma

  International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 2005

  This paper explores the current situation in Burma, with a particular focus on the conditions for potential and current foreign investment.It answers the following questions:who owns the economy - who do you need to deal with when conduction business in Burma?how to read statistics on levels of FDI and tradehow much of this money is going to the junta what happens to the tax
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  Reforming the delivery of public services: who decides?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Several developing countries have recently initiated reforms to improve the ways in which public services such as health or water are delivered. These present a much harder task than the economic stabilisation reforms of the 1980s and 1990s. Unclear goals and uncertain benefits make their implementation difficult.
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  Nature for sale: the impacts of privatising water and biodiversity

  Friends of the Earth International, 2005

  This report, published by Friends of the Earth, discusses the impacts of privatisation of water supply and biodiversity on the poor throughout the world, especially women.
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  Rural taxation in Uganda: implications for growth, income distribution, local government revenue and poverty reduction

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004

  This report examines the process of policy change in Uganda with respect to local government taxation.
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  Investing in development: a practical plan to achieve the Millennium Development Goals

  Millennium Project, 2005

  Investing in development is the final report of the UN Millennium Project. It presents the findings and recommendations of the project, which will be reported directly to the UN Secretary-General and the Administrator of the UNDP.The report makes ten key recommendations:developing country governments should adopt development strategies bold enough to meet the MDG targets for 2015.
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  Report of the Southern Africa civil society consultation

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This paper reports on the Southern Africa regional consultation conference on the Commission for Africa (CFA). Participants came from civil society groups from Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Zambia. At the conclusion of the two day meeting the participants released a communiqué of the meeting and its deliberations.
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  Marketing the Mekong: the Asian Development Bank and the Greater Mekong Sub-region Economic Cooperation Program

  Jubilee South, 2003

  The document critically examines the Greater Mekong Subregion Economic Cooperation (GMS) Programme, which was initiated by the Asian Development Bank in 1992 to boost economic development in the resource rich region.

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