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  Half a world: regional inequality in five great federations

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper explores some of the reasons why large groups of the population pull ahead, while equally large groups stay behind within the context of regional (spatial) inequality.
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  Access to condoms and HIV/AIDS information: a global health and human rights concern

  Human Rights Watch, 2004

  This Human Rights Watch briefing paper documents censorship of information, myths and restrictions on condoms in a number of countries. While condoms remain the single most effective device against sexually-transmitted HIV, they face government-imposed constraints in numerous countries worldwide. This brief outlines the United States’ (US) "War on Condoms", and religious opposition.
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  Beyond Oaxaca-Blinder: accounting for differences in household income distributions across countries

  Departamento de Economia, Pontificía Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2002

  This paper examines household income distributions between Brazil, the United States, and Mexico.
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  Public perceptions and expectations of biotechnology

  Biotechnology and Development Monitor, 2001

  This edition of the Biotechnology and Development Monitor surveys the perceptions and expectations that have developed in the public domain on agricultural gene technology in recent years. Authors from different parts of the world analyse the factors that have influenced public perceptions and expectations of biotechnology as applied to agriculture in their own countries over the last 25 years.
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  Public participation in national biotechnology policy and biosafety regulation

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper explores the challenges entailed in applying the principles and methods of public participation to national and international policy processes.
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  Financial stability and growth in emerging economies: the role of the financial sector

  Forum on Debt and Development, 2003

  This book analyses the issues that determine financial stability in developing countries, such as the robustness of their domestic financial sector, the soundness of their macroeconomic policies, the volatility of international capital flows, and the overall stability of the global financial system.
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  Organized labour in the 21st century

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This report presents a representative sample of the comparative research undertaken by the International Institute for Labour Studies on comparative research on “Trade union responses to globalization”. It involves 15 countries namely, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Ghana, India, Israel, Japan, Republic of Korea, Lithuania, Niger, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia and USA.
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  Sustainable success? Measuring the impact of forest management

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  How does forest management affect a forest or the people living in it? How can the impact of forest management be measured? Criteria & Indicators (C&I) are tools that can measure forest conditions and provide a framework for describing, monitoring and evaluating progress towards sustainable forest management.
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  No hiding place for information-hoarders: tackling the accountability deficit

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Can citizens help shape policies and hold politicians and civil servants to account? How can opportunities for citizen participation be institutionalised? Which public sector responsiveness initiatives undertaken in recent years are replicable? How should donors respond to recalcitrant states refusing to reform accountability relationships with service users?
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  WHO knows best? A new treatment for children with diarrhoea

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Is the standard treatment with oral rehydration salts (ORS) the best way to help children with diarrhoea? Researchers from the University of Reading and partner institutions compare the standard ORS solution recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO) with one containing less sodium.

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