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  Harnessing international agreements for energy security in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Climate Network Africa, 2003

  This report details the proceedings and outcomes of a workshop held in Nairobi, Kenya, in November 2003, examining energy security in Sub-Saharan Africa.The report highlights the fact that one of the key reasons why sustainable development has not been achieved within East Africa is due to poor access to cleaner domestic and commercial energy.
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  Water for life: the impact of the privatization of water services on child mortality

  Universidad Torcuato di Tello, Argentina, 2004

  During the 1990s, about 30 per cent of Argentinean municipalities, covering approximately 60 per cent of the population, privatised their water services.
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  Housing policy in Armenia: condominium activity

  Armenian International Policy Research Group, 2004

  Urban housing maintenance presents a major challenge for Armenia today. While most residents of multi-family apartment buildings have privatised their apartments, they have yet to take responsibility for the dilapidated common property and infrastructure in their apartment buildings.
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  Turkmenistan: economic autocracy and recent growth performance

  Economic Education and Research Consortium,, Russian Federation, 2003

  The goal of this paper is to analyse the main reasons for Turkmenistan's economic collapse of the 1990s and for its subsequent recovery, and to develop policy recommendations for the country’s successful economic transition.
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  Tuberculosis handbook

  World Health Organization, 1998

  This handbook focuses on pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) and provides guidelines for effective TB control, summarising the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) experience in promoting and supporting national TB programmes (NTPs). Produced by WHO, it argues that effective TB control depends on simple, broadly standardised procedures, and the managerial capacity to implement them on a large scale.
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  Communication strategies in the age of decentralisation and privatisation of rural services: lessons from two African experiences

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This paper describes the challenges of decentralisation and privatisation of rural services from the perspective of communication strategy development. The author argues that the wave of decentralisation and privatisation in rural services worldwide has created a challenge for rural communities, service providers and local governments.
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  Teacher and health care provider absence: a multi-country study

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper looks at the incidence and causes of absenteeism in public health workers and teachers in eight countries. Research was based on unannounced visits to a random sample of health care facilities and schools.
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  Unleashing entrepreneurship: making business work for the poor

  United Nations Development Programme, 2004

  This paper reflects the meetings of the UN's Commission on the Private Sector and Development. The authors explore how the private sector can help reduce widespread poverty; the Commission believes that the primary responsibility for achieving growth and equitable development lies with developing countries.
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  National energy policy for Russia

  Institute of Energy Policy,, Russian Federation, 2003

  [The full text of this paper is in Russian language only.] This report analyzes the state of the Russian energy sector and proposes several reforms that are needed to meet the increasing demand for energy.According to the paper, Russia currently lacks a coherent energy policy, as the energy sector remains monopolized and heavily regulated at the same time.
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  Pragmatic policy in Brazil: the political economy of incomplete market reform

  Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada / Institute of Applied Economic Research, Brazil, 2004

  This paper analyses the political processes through which market reform has taken place in Brazil since the 1990s, focussing on the relative roles of ideology, policy packaging, and pragmatism in advancing the reforms; how well reform implementation went; to what extent the results were as expected; and whether the retrenchment of the state resulting from the reforms will be sustained.Its findi

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