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  Are rural women disadvantaged in asset ownership and business relations in the Kyrgyz Republic?

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004

  This paper examines how, over the past 10 years, Kyrgyzstan has privatised most of its agricultural land and distributed it to individual households. These households either farm alone or join together and farm cooperatively. This research seeks to examine whether women have been adversely affected in the process of privatisation, asset ownership, or business development.
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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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  Internal exit in the Russian Federation

  Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies,, Latvia, 2003

  Are greater democracy and more transparent fiscal flows good for Russian territorial integrity?Buchanan and Faith (1987) model fiscal extraction by a self-interested coalition in a club, which provides a public good to its members.
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  Macroeconomic and structural aspects of the tax reform

  Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-Term Forecasting, Russian Federation, 2004

  [The full text of this paper is in Russian language only.] This paper analyzes the tax structure in the Russian economy, proposes a way of reforming the system, and outlines some of the difficulties that the reform will encounter.According to the author’s analysis, the Russian economy is comparable to its developed European counterparts in the gross tax burden but not in the structure of taxes:
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  Separating spending responsibility between various layers of Russian government

  Center for Fiscal Policy, Consulting Group, Russian Federation, 2003

  [The full text of this paper is in Russian language only.] This report analyzes the problem of the division of fiscal responsibility between the various levels of Russian government.According to the study, a disproportionately large share of Russian governmental functions is carried out through a system of federal mandates.
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  Middle classes in Russia: economic and social strategies

  Moscow Carnegie Center, Russian Federation, 2003

  [Full text of the book is in Russian language only.] Growth of the middle class in Russia is often considered to be an important indicator of the success of economic reforms and soundness of economic, political and social institutions.
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  Bridging the gap: involuntary population movement and reconstruction strategy

  Oxford Brookes University, UK, 2003

  This paper aims to bridge the gap between refugee research and resettlement research; and between displacement and reconstruction.
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  Anti-tuberculosis drug resistance in the world: third global report

  Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, 2004

  Published by the TB Alliance, this is the third report of the Global Project on Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Surveillance. Resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) to anti-TB drugs is a man-made problem associated with a variety of factors.
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  Child soldiers global report 2004

  Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, 2004

  This Global Report documents child recruitment policies and practices from 2001. It monitors compliance by governments and armed political groups to international standards governing the recruitment and use of child soldiers.The report provides an analysis of recruitment standards and practices in more than 180 countries, and identifies regional and global trends.

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