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  What works in youth employment in the Balkans

  International Youth Foundation, 2004

  This paper looks at three youth employment initiatives in Romania, Bulgaria and Romania. These countries are characterised by high youth unemployment and limited opportunities for youth employment: the initiatives provide examples of how NGOs, businesses, governments and communities are working together to create new job and educational opportunities for young people.
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  Guns but no bread: how arms exporters are failing developing countries

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  It is a commonly held belief that developing countries rely primarily on small arms – which, being relatively cheap, should not be a huge financial burden to the country.  But in fact, the countries of Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East own 51% of the world’s heavy weapons and in 2002 they imported two thirds of all arms deliveries worldwide, at a value of nearly US$ 17 billion.
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  "So does it mean that we have the rights?": protecting the human rights of women and girls trafficked for forced prostitution in Kosovo

  Amnesty International, 2004

  Since the deployment in July 1999 of an international peacekeeping force (KFOR) and the establishment of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) civilian administration, Amnesty International argues that Kosovo has become a major destination country for women and girls trafficked into forced prostitution.This report examines the human rights abuses to which trafficke
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  Untapped connections: gender, water and poverty. Key issues, government commitments and actions for sustainable development

  Women's Environment and Development Organization, 2003

  This paper presents an overview of the relationship between gender, poverty and water. This includes men's and women's differential access to water and differential water uses, different experiences of health and sanitation, and how men and women are differently affected by public versus private services.
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  Women's work: discrimination against women in the Ukrainian labor force

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  This paper examines gender stereotypes and discrimination in hiring practices in the Ukraine. As a result, women are increasingly pushed into low-wage service sector or public sector jobs or seek employment, including secondary employment, in the unregulated informal sector.
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  Multinational investment, international trade and contracts in transition economies: a case study for food-industries

  European Development Research Network, 2004

  This paper investigates the effects of food-multinationals’ activity in terms of social welfare, in order to understand their role in the economic development of transition countries in Central and Eastern Europe.Main findings of the study include:equilibrium non-binding contract is preferred by both players to the equilibrium binding contractforeign direct investments have gained i
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  Defining, measuring and influencing sustainable return: the case of the Balkans

  Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2004

  This paper provides an overview of recent policy interest in refugee and IDP returns, globally as well as to and within the Balkans, and focuses on issues surrounding the sustainability of return.The paper argues that the development of robust indicators of the sustainability of return could assist in monitoring the impact of return programmes.
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  Modeling the interaction between financial institutions development and economic growth

  Center for Fiscal Policy, Consulting Group, Russian Federation, 2004

  [The full text of this paper is in Russian language only.] The author uses mathematical modeling and statistical analysis to assess the impact of the degree to which a country’s financial institutions are developed on the country’s GDP growth rate.According to the author, the effect is uncertain.
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  Vouchers for basic education in developing countries: a principal-agent perspective

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper assesses the impact of education voucher schemes in a number of countries, and uses a principal-agent framework to suggest what might be expected from voucher programs in developing countries, what kinds of voucher programs might be most useful, and what elements of the institutional infrastructure will be important for their implementation.The paper is structured in four sections: f
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  Microcredit: an oxygen infusion for a better life

  Norwegian Refugee Council, 2004

  This short article from the Norwegian refugee council outlines their involvement in providing microcredit to enable dispaced people from Nagorny Karabakh to develop economic opportunities.The article outlines a number of reasons for the success of the loan schemes focusing on the local organisation involved which has:worked to build trust and transparency and to enable a credit culture

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