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  Inequality and poverty in the CIS7, 1989-2002

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper, published by the World Bank, examines the impact of a decade of transition on living standards and welfare in seven of the poorest republics of the former Soviet Union – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan (known as the CIS-7). It finds that income inequality, which was low prior to independence, is now worse than in the United States.
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  Human resource studies in health for poor and transitional countries

  London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2004

  This paper, published by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Health Systems Development Programme, examines the issues and research questions surrounding human resources and health in developing countries. It argues that health system performance is largely driven by human resources because health services are by nature labour-intensive.
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  Health-service utilization in the former Soviet Union: evidence from eight countries

  Health Services Research [journal], 2004

  This paper, published in the journal Health Services Research, examines survey data on the use of health services in eight countries of the former Soviet Union – Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine.
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  Economic transition and human development

  School of Business Administration, Miami University, Ohio, US, 1998

  This paper, presented at the 1998 conference of the Academy of Business and Administrative Sciences and published by Miami University, examines the determinants of economic and human development in transition economies. It uses statistical analysis of 27 transition economies in 1993-4 to study the impact on economic growth of other economic and human development variables.
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  Economic reforms and constitutional transition

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2000

  This paper, published by the Harvard University Centre for International Development (CID), investigates the relationship between economic reforms and constitutional transition. It argues that assessment of reform performance might be very misleading if it is not recognised that economic reforms form just a small part of constitutional transition.
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  Reforming the continuum of care

  European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, 2004

  This article, published by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies as chapter 4 of the book “Health Services in Transition: Learning from Experience,” concerns issues for health policy in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
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  Does foreign ownership matter? Russian experience

  Global Development Network, 2004

  For transition economies, foreign direct investment (FDI) is considered to be one of the major sources of sustainable economic growth.
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  Ten years of transformation: macroeconomic lessons

  World Bank, 1999

  This paper, published by the World Bank, surveys the experience of transition economies in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union during the 1990s. It finds that the early years of transition were generally characterised by a collapse in output and an increase in unemployment.
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  Health in south-eastern Europe: a troubled past, an uncertain future

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2004

  This paper, published in the bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO), reviews secondary material on health challenges in the countries of south-eastern Europe affected by conflict in the 1990s. It finds that life expectancy is beginning to improve in some countries, although at a slower rate than in the European Union (EU). There is a large burden of noncommunicable disease.
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  Human resources for health exist in communities

  International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2005

  This paper, from the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, calls for an expanded definition of health systems that includes, values and resources work carried out by communities in the frontline in responding to HIV and AIDS. The paper describes three examples of human resource development in community-driven HIV and AIDS programmes in Zambia, Burkina Faso and Ukraine.

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