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  Certified forest products marketplace [in Europe]

  Economic Commission for Europe, UN, 1998

  Review of market condition in the ECE area.
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  Rational exploitations: economic criteria & indicators for sustainable management of tropical forests

  Center for International Forestry Research, 1998

  Covers the economic dimensions and issues associated with the of criteria and design of indicators on the sustainable management of tropical forests.
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  Indicators and Information Systems for Sustainable Development

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 1999

  Explanation of the importance of indicators, the kinds of information systems necessary for their production and the processes necessary for their adoption
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  The future of the EC development budget

  International Development Committee, UK, 1999

  Report on management of the European Community's aid programme, and the role of DFID within this.Executive summary: "This Report includes important new information as to how the European Community directs the greater part of its external action budget away from the poorest people of the world.
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  Determinants of Customs Fraud and Corruption Evidence from two African Countries (Senegal and Mali)

  OECD Development Centre, 1998

  Corruption in customs administrations is a major problem in many African countries. Data from the period 1990-96 are used to examine several hypotheses concerning the determinants of customs fraud in Senegal and Mali. Statistical tests using product-by-product data support the widely held view that high levels of taxation lead to fraud.
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  Measuring Aid Flows: a New Approach

  Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1998

  The debate on the effectiveness of foreign aid has intensified in recent years, as aid has come under increasing budgetary pressures in donor countries. Whatever the merits of the opposing arguments, the fundamental issue arises of whether the conventionally-used measures of aid such as ODA, that lump together grants and loans, accurately reflect true aid flows.
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  The Mechanics of Progress in Education: Evidence from Cross-Country Data

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998

  Argues that, so long as educational coverage is not yet universal, a more efficient strategy for educational development is to emphasize continued expansion of coverage rather than a rapid reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio.
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  Making Negotiated Land Reform Work: Initial Experience from Brazil, Colombia, and South Africa

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Can land reform have a lasting impact on poverty reduction?
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  Good Governance and Trade Policy: Are They the Keys to Africa's Global Integration and Growth?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Model testing the influence of trade and governance policies on economic performanceTurning the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa around requires badly needed national policy reform—abandoning the region's restrictive fiscal, monetary, property, and wage policies and trade barriers.
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  Monitoring Children's Rights: Indicators for Children's Rights Project

  Childwatch International Research Network, 1998

  Project aims to analyse specific needs for indicators to monitor the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and suggest how the status of the various rights could be expressed through objective data. Through a series of country case studies, the project has developed a strategy for identification and development of the appropriate indicators.

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