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  Uganda in Eastern DRC: fueling political and ethnic strife

  Human Rights Watch, 2001

  Paper asserts that Ugandan authorities have fuelled political and ethnic strife in eastern Congo with disastrous consequences for the local population. Paper documents how Ugandan authorities intervened in rivalries among factions of the rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD). Some of these quarrels degenerated into military skirmishes in which civilians have been killed and injured.
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  A question of principle: arms trade and human rights

  Human Rights Watch, 2000

  Paper asserts that the South African government must urgently address the inconsistencies that have emerged between its arms export policies and practices, and deny all human rights abusers its weapons, the tools with which such abuses have been committed. In particular, Human Rights Watch believes four areas need attention.
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  Refugees, displaced people and international migrants changing the face of development

  Centre for Developing-Area Studies, McGill University, 2000

  This presentation pursues two areas of reflection concerning the limitations of development strategies, both of which result from observations of armed conflicts: one is what happens to refugees, displaced persons and the diaspora (including, international migrants) and the other is what happens to the nation-state as it attempts to reconstruct and reconcile to prevent further conflict.
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  Human Development Report 2001: making new technologies work for human development

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2001

  This 2001 UNDP Human Development Report looks specifically at how new technologies will affect developing countries and poor people. Many people fear that these technologies may be of little use to the developing world - or that they might actually widen the already savage inequalities between North and South, rich and poor.
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  The impact of armed conflict on children

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2000

  This document reviews the wide-ranging series of actions taken in response to the recommendations of the 1996 Machel Report. Many of the significant achievements are woven into this text, which constitutes an early summary of a book that will be published in early 2001.
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  Moving the poverty reduction agenda forward in Asia and the Pacific: the long-term strategic framework of the Asian Development Bank (2001-2015)

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2001

  ADB has devised a long-term strategic framework (LTSF) to help realise this vision and mission. The LTSF sets out an agenda for carrying out the poverty reduction strategy in the next decade and a half.
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  Four simple principals for democratic governance of globalization

  Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., 2001

  Paper asserts that markets are straining to become global, while the institutions that are required for their effective functioning—legal, social, and political—remain largely parochial and national. Its presents four principals which aim to be widely accepted and act as a guide for reform efforts:1. Democracy, not markets, provides the proper discipline for public policy2.
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  Asian cities in the 21st Century: contemporary approaches to municipal management vol. 5 fighting urban poverty

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2001

  The present volume contains the proceedings of the third Asian Mayors’ Forum, which focused on the theme Fighting Urban Poverty and was held in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, on 26-29 June 2000.
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  Human rights, political instability and investment in South Africa: a note

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2001

  This paper extends the model of Fielding (1999), which is designed to explain changes in investment in South Africa during the Apartheid period, by allowing a role for indicators of political instability and political and civil rights, as measured by Fedderke et al. (1999).
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  Perspectives on Africa's development

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2000

  This book contains 42 speeches organised in six clusters. The speeches were delivered in the four-year period from February 1996 to February 2000 to disparate audiences in venues around the world. The first cluster deals with the dimensions of development and with the structural underpinnings of economic growth.

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