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  Civil society: IISD resource guide

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 1998

  Bibilography of key paper resources concerning civil society and sustainable development accompanied by short abstracts. Also details of relevant WWW sites. Prepared by IISD Information Centre
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  Democracies Pay Higher Wages

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1998

  Controlling for labor productivity, income levels, and other possible determinants, there is a robust and statistically significant association between the extent of democratic rights and wages received by workers. The association exists both across countries and over time within countries.
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  Where Did All The Growth Go? External Shocks, Social Conflict, and Growth Collapses

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1998

  This paper argues that domestic social conflicts are a key to understanding why growth rates lack persistence and why so many countries have experienced a growth collapse after the mid-1970s. It emphasizes conflicts interact with external shocks on the one hand, and the domestic institutions of conflict-management on the other.
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  International Standard Classification of Education

  UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 1999

  ISCED 1997 is the revised version of the International Standard Classification of Education which was adopted in 1997 by UNESCO'S General Conference in replacement of the former version. From 1998 onwards, the new classification has been used in the international collection of education statistics since 1998.
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  Development of Education in Africa: A Statistical Review

  UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 1999

  Paper prepared for the Seventh Conference of Ministers of Education of African Member States - Durban, 20 - 24 April 1998)
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  Comparative Study of European Aid for Poverty Reduction: A collaborative European Research Project: Objectives and Methodology for Phase II Recipient Country Case Studies

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999

  Phase I of the study has been a series of individual donor studies undertaken in donor capitals. Phase II offers scope to explore in recipient country contexts, the perspectives of recipients and donors and their interaction as well as the comparative experience and outcomes of several EU donors in the same recipient country context - all related to poverty reduction (PR).
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  The adoption of soil conservation practices in Burkina Faso

  Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1994

  Building soil conservation practices on a base of indigenous knowledge greatly increases the rate at which they are adopted by farmers in Burkina Faso. Indigenous soil conservation practices are ecologically sound and need to be taken into account when efforts are made to introduce modern agricultural techniques.
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  Foreign investment in Latin America and the Caribbean 1997

  United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 1998

  Innovative analytic bridges are established linking the official data on foreign direct investment flows and related information at the sectoral and company levels found in the specialized press to the information collected directly by the Unit through company questionnaires and interviews.
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  The FDI-led growth hypothesis: further econometric evidence from China

  National Centre for Development Studies, Australia, 1997

  Despite a large volume of econometric literature on the impacts of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth in developing countries, the question of causality linkage between them has only been investigated very recently.
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  Sovereignty and Personal Rule in Zaire

  African Studies Quarterly, 1997

  How did Mobutu weather for so long the collapse of not only Zaire's state institutions, but also his presidential network of strongmen and aspiring politicians that really ran Zaire before the 1990s? And after Laurent Kabila finally removed Mobutu from power in May, 1997, how has the nature of state collapse under Mobutu influenced Kabila's own construction of authority?

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