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  Civil society budget monitoring for national accountability

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This report is based on a three day budget tracking workshop held in Malawi in February 2004 which brought together individuals and representatives of organisations involved in budget monitoring, or developing monitoring processes and tools, with a view to developing a supportive community of practice.Issues highlighted in this report include:budget making is where the real prioritisat
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  Growth, inequality and poverty in Armenia

  United Nations Development Program in Armenia,, Armenia, 2002

  With the collapse of the Soviet Union and a centralised economy, Armenia has experienced a dramatic fall in living standards and a striking increase in income inequality. The report explores the nature of poverty and inequality in Armenia, and aims at recommending macroeconomic policies that would help eradicate poverty.
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  The reform of the energy sector: more competition or more monopoly?

  Moscow Carnegie Center, Russian Federation, 2003

  [The full text of this paper is in Russian language only.] This paper addresses the questions related to the regulation and reform of Russian energy monopoly UES (United Energy Systems). According to the author, the Russian energy monopoly has to be restructured, since the government is unable to control the rising price of energy.
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  Experiences of contracting with the private sector: a selected review

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2004

  This HSRC paper reviews the experiences of social agencies contracting with the private sector to provide health care services, and focuses on the capacity of this mechanism to improve access to services by the poor. A sample of country experiences are reviewed, reflecting a range of potential methods for using contracting to benefit the poor.
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  Does commuting reduce wage disparities?

  Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies,, Latvia, 2004

  What is the effect of rural-urban and inter-city commuting on urban and rural labor markets and on national welfare? The paper explores this question in the context of three Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania), which feature considerable disparities in earnings and employment possibilities between urban and rural areas, as well as between capital and other cities.
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  Tackling childhood poverty in Central and East Asia: donor approaches in Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia

  Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2003

  This report examines how donors approach poverty among children and young people in Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia.
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  The role of pilot programs: approaches to health systems strengthening

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 2004

  This report documents PRHPlus experience with pilot programmes in strengthening health systems. Chapter one draws upon these experiences and a broader PRHPlus literature review of pilot programmes, in order to develop a conceptual framework to assist with the designing and planning of these pilot programmes. The study also features case studies of three health system reform pilots.
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  An end to EU sugar dumping?: implications of the WTO panel ruling in the dispute against EU sugar policies brought by Brazil, Thailand, and Australia

  Oxfam, 2005

  This brief paper examines the implications of a ruling of the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement panel, which found that EU sugar subsidies contravene WTO rules.The paper presents findings from the ruling as follows:the EU exports of around 2.7 million tonnes of what the EU claims to be unsubsidised sugar (so-called non-quota or 'C' sugar).
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  Longevity in Russia’s regions: do poverty and low public health spending kill?

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper examines the impact of changes in poverty and public health spending on inter-temporal variations in longevity using a unique regional-level dataset that covers 77 regions of Russia over the period 1994-2000. The dynamic panel data model is used as a tool for the empirical analysis. The model is estimated using the Arellano-Bond dynamic panel data estimator.
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  Missing data problem and the empirical yield curve analysis: an example of T-bills market in Armenia

  Economic Education and Research Consortium,, Russian Federation, 2004

  In Armenia, the T-bill market is an established and important policy instrument for the Central Bank authorities to guard against the onset of inflation. This paper has two objectives: first, to determine interest rates with the help of a three-dimensional yield curve for the T-bills market, and second, to address the problem of missing data.

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