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  Towards responsible lobbying: leadership and public policy

  AccountAbility, 2005

  This report sheds light on the way in which organisations, in particular business, influence the goals of sustainable development through their lobbying processes, and how governments in turn influence the lobbying ‘supply chain’.
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  Monitoring and evaluating information and communication for development (ICD) programmes

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  These gudelines were written for DFID staff in need of advice on the monitoring and evaluating Information and Communication for Development (ICD) programmes.
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  Behavioural economics: seven principles for policy makers

  New Economics Foundation, 2005

  This briefing summarises the behavioural economics approach and contrasts it with neoclassical economics, where the assumption is made that humans are rational and maximise their individual self-interest. It is designed to help policy-makers who use economic tools, by providing a summary of the latest thinking from behaviourial economics.
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  Bridging research and policy in international development: an analytical and practical framework

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  Better utilisation of research and evidence in development policy and practice can contribute in reducing poverty and improving the quality of life.
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  The public value of science: or how to ensure that science really matters

  Demos, 2005

  This pamphlet argues that the UK needs to find new ways of talking about and building "the public value of science".
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  Conditions, coalitions, and influence: the World Bank and higher education in Africa

  Comparative and International Education Society, 2004

  This study explores World Bank policies on higher education for Africa and their consequences.
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  The future of academic medicine: five scenarios to 2025

  Milbank Memorial Fund, 2005

  Academic medicine might be defined as the capacity of the system for health and health care to think, study, research, discover, evaluate, innovate, teach, learn, and improve.
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  Mobilising social science research to improve health

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This short briefing paper looks researchers from a variety of academic disciplines ensure that the benefits of medical advances are made more widely available and that poor people worldwide gain better access to improved health services.
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  Power sector reforms in Brazil and its impacts on energy, efficiency and research and development

  Global Development Network, 2004

  During the last decade several countries started the introduction of structural reforms within their electricity industry. For developing countries in particular, reforms have created new challenges to the public sector, which has to understand how markets operate, seek funding mechanisms and develop criteria for allocating funds.
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  A leadership strategy for reducing hunger and malnutrition in Africa: the agriculture-nutrition advantage

  International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2005

  This paper reviews the aspects and outcomes of the Agriculture- Nutrition Advantage project implemented in Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Uganda, and the United States.

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