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    The Impact of Family Planning and Reproductive Health on Women's Lives: A Conceptual Framework

    Family Health International, 1996
    The framework examines women's use and non-use of family planning, their pregnancy and childbearing experiences, their experiences with family planning programs, and their experiences with other reproductive health services. Also, the framework looks at three domains of women's lives: household and family roles, psychological and physical factors, and societal and economic roles.
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    Case Studies of Two Women's Health Projects in Bolivia

    Family Health International, 1996
    Profiles two programs in Bolivia: La Casa de la Mujer in Santa Cruz and the Kumar Warmi (Health Woman) clinic operated by the Centro de Informacion y Desarrollo de la Mujer (CIDEM) in El Alto. Both programs involve women in the design and delivery of health care, and both offer health care as one of an array of services designed to improve women's quality of life.
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    Economic reform and progress in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
    The paper examines the experience in structural reform in five areas—governance, international trade, financial markets, labor markets, and the generation and use of public resources—in countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. It develops quantitative indicators for the policy reforms and for their outcomes.
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    The limits and merits of participation

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
    Once a shout from the radical fringe, the call for participation has resurfaced as a dominant voice in development thinking. But the new truth may be flawed. The goal of economic development is to increase growth and eliminate poverty. Recently, the goal has been broadened to include promoting participatory governance.
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    Distinguishing between Types of Data and Methods of Collecting Them

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    In the "quantitative-qualitative" debate, analysts often fail to make a clear distinction between methods of data collection used and types of data generated.
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    Short - term stabilization versus long - term price stability : evaluating Namibia's membership of the Common Monetary Area

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995
    It was found in this paper that (i) because of the high degree of openness of the Namibian economy and its small size, the use of nominal exchange rate as an instrument of adjustment will have limited effects; (ii) that the costs associated with the loss of monetary autonomy are small; and (iii) that there exists a wide range of instruments to address the effects of asymmetric shocks, irrespective
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    The political economy of ethnicity

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998
    Paper investigates the effects of ethnic diversity on economic performance and the risk of violent conflict. Diversity has various detrimental microeconomic effects, tending to reduce public sector performance, increase patronage, and lower the level of trust among individuals. However, whether diversity adversely affects overall economic growth depends upon the political environment.
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    Building a Learning Network on Governance: The Experience of the Governance Cooperative

    Institute on Governance, 1998
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    Civil Society Bibliography

    North-South Institute, 1998
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    NAFTA Supplemental Agreements: Four Year Review

    Institute for International Economics, USA, 1998
    Examines the objectives and accomplishments to date of the NAAEC and the NAALC.1 It also includes a discussion of the USA-Mexico Border Environmental Cooperation Agreement (BECA) which was designed to address environmental infrastructure problems in the US-Mexican border region.

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