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    The nature of rural infrastructure: problems and prospects

    National Council of Applied Economic Research, India, 2004
    Rural infrastructure assumes great importance in India because of the country’s predominantly rural nature, the crucial linkages of infrastructure to economic growth, poverty alleviation and human development, and the poor availability of rural infrastructure.
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    Renewable energy technologies in Zimbabwe

    African Energy Policy Research Network, 2004
    This report examines the actual and potential impact of rural energy and renewables on income-generating business opportunities in Zimbabwe and analyses the barriers to widespread implementation of renewable energy technologies.
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    Knowledge-based changes to health systems: the Thai experience in policy development

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2004
    This paper, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, examines how research into health systems and policy contributed to the move to universal health coverage in Thailand. The authors chart how the Thai government first offered coverage to government employees and families.
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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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    A gender perspective on water resources and sanitation

    Commission on Sustainable Development, United Nations [UN], 2004
    This paper is based on the premise that in the next generation, it will be critical to mainstream gender perspectives into the planning process to ensure that the specific needs and concerns of women and men from all social groups are taken into account in development, use and management of water resources and sanitation.
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    Financing Africa’s future growth and development: some innovations

    Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four, 2004
    The paper explores the opportunities that could help Africa to close the resource gap.
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    Dogmatic development: privatisation and conditionalities in six countries

    War on Want, 2004
    The report examines how conditionalities and pressures from aid agencies and development banks force developing countries to adopt privatisation policies in public services.
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    Tajikistan’s growth performance: the first decade of transition

    Economic Education and Research Consortium,, Russian Federation, 2003
    This work provides a description of the main economic and political problems that led to the sharp decline in Tajikistan’s economic output during the 1990s, and provides policy recommendations.Between 1991 and 2000 GDP contracted by some 60%, with the greater part of the decline being in the industrial sector.According to the authors, a major factor that contributed to the fall in economic o
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    The political economy of economic growth policies: the case of Yemen Republic

    Global Development Network, 2003
    Yemen Republic has experienced low economic growth rates for much of the last eight decades. Recent economic history (1917-2000) has shown that the national growth rates have fluctuated between 2% and 8%.
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    Explaining growth in an oil-dependent economy: the case of the United Arab Emirates

    Global Development Network, 2002
    Discovering oil in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the late 1950s has transformed the economy from one of subsistence to a modern high-income economy.

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