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    Restructuring of enterprise social assets in Russia : trends, problems, possible solutions

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    What to do about social services that Russia's state enterprises have traditionally provided is a major issue in enterprise restructuring and public policy reform.
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    Labor regulations and industrial relations in Indonesia

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    Personnel management and incentive systems help firms establish a comparative advantage. Pay scales and hiring, firing and promotion decisions are central to competitive strategy. Ideally, labor regulations should facilitate voluntary agreements between employers and workers, helping reduce transaction costs.Since the mid 1980s, deregulation has proceeded rapidly in Indonesia.
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    How can China provide income security for its rapidly aging population? / Barry Friedman ... [et al.]

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    If China implements a partially funded multipillar pension system, that reform must go hand in hand with reform of the financial sector and restructured investment procedures that emphasize the "right" mix of competition, diversification, and regulation.
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    Declaration of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Summit of the Americas)

    Center for Hemispheric Policy, 1999
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    League table of compliance with the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (ICMBS)

    The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1999
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    Healthy cities, healthy children

    The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1999
    Economic development has brought comfort and convenience to many people in the industrialized world, but in its wake are pollution, new health problems, blighted urban landscapes and social isolation. Growing numbers of the dispossessed are also being left on the sidelines as the disparity between rich and poor grows.
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    Fighting AIDS together [children and AIDS]

    The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1999
    The world's children are benefiting from several decades of unprecedented health progress. Child-killing diseases are succumbing to vaccination campaigns and low-cost remedies, reducing death rates and improving the quality of young lives. But in about 30 developing countries, HIV/AIDS is threatening and even reversing these strides.
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    The sanitation gap: Development's deadly menace

    The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1999
    Adequate sanitation is the foundation of development—but a decent toilet or latrine is an unknown luxury to half the people on earth. The percentage of those with access to hygienic sanitation facilities has declined slightly over the 1990s, as construction has fallen behind population growth. The main result can be summed up in one deadly word: diarrhoea.
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    The Progress of Nations Report, 1997

    The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1999
    The Progress of Nations, an annual scorecard of the social health of nations, records achievements in the form of statistics that measure fulfilment of minimum human needs. The knowledge it unearths is fundamental to solving problems, because information is the first ingredient needed by those with the will and the means to make change.
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    The Convention on the Rights of the Child

    United Nations Children's Fund, 1989
    The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) was adopted by the UN's General Assembly in 1989 and entered into force in 1990. This Convention applies to human beings below the age of eighteen.

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