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Shadow economy: sources and ways to reduce it
Economic Review magazine, Uzbekistan, 2004[The full text of this paper is in Russian language only.] This paper analyzes the role of administrative barriers in Uzbekistan and their impact on the formation of the shadow economy.DocumentOverview of legislation of housing and utility sector in Russian economy
Institute for Urban Economics,, Russian Federation, 2003This paper provides an analysis of Russian legislative acts enacted to regulate and reform the public utilities sector.DocumentTowards transparency: progress on global sustainability reporting 2004
CorporateRegister.com, 2004Sustainability reporting has emerged over the past decade as a response to a demand for greater transparency regarding business impacts on sustainable development. This report maps the progress on sustainability reporting globally, and by region.DocumentGlobal child labour data review: a gender perspective (vol. 3)
International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2004This report provides an analysis of child labour disaggregated by sex. It reviews existing child labour data, specifically from a gender perspective, and provides a detailed review of and comparison between six countries, Ecuador, Ghana, the Philippines, Dominican Republic, South Africa and Turkey to look at general trends in child labour and sex differentials.DocumentProgress for children: a child survival report card
United Nations Children's Fund, 2004This UNICEF report looks at trends in the indicators for the fourth MDG, which aims for a two-thirds reduction of under-five mortality rates between 1990 and 2015. Tracing back to the 1960s it takes a regional and global analysis to the achievements in reducing child mortality.DocumentReview of the national program to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS in Ukraine
US Agency for International Development, 2004This paper reviews the Ukraine’s strategy of integrating prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) activities into existing health services.DocumentA two-dimensional criterion for tax policy evaluation: a primer from the reform of personal income taxation in Russia
Institute for the Economy in Transition, Russian Federation, 2004This work proposes a new analytical technique for comparing the efficiency of various tax schemes. Knowing what tax rate schedule to select, the author says, is of great relevance to policymakers. That problem is a technically difficult one because whether one tax scheme is more efficient than another depends on what consumer’s welfare function we assume.DocumentOwnership structure, corporate governance and enterprise performance: empirical results for Ukraine
Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting,, Ukraine, 2003The paper contains an empirical analysis of the effect of ownership structure on corporate governance and performance of privatized enterprises. The data is obtained from a survey of 202 medium-sized and large industrial firms for the period 1998 to 2000.DocumentEducation, poverty and economic activity in Armenia: situation analysis
United Nations Development Program in Armenia,, Armenia, 2002Based on a household survey, focus-group discussions and a survey of university applicants (particularly applicants to pedagogical institutions), the study identifies the links between poverty, education and economic activity in Armenia.DocumentChildcare and early childhood development programmes and policies: their relationship to eradicating child poverty
Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004Are childcare and early childhood development (ECD) programmes beneficial? This paper questions the types of evidence which support claims that they are, by examining the assumptions made about poverty and the role of ECD in poverty reduction; the robustness of the evidence on ECD; and the contexts in which ECD interventions take place.Pages