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  MIGA in Africa

  Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, 2005

  The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency is part of the World Bank Group, mitigating political risks to investments through:GuaranteesCurrency inconvertibility and transfer restrictionsExpropriationWar and civil disturbanceBreach of contractDispute mediation servicesMIGA also provides technical assistance to governments and online information on investment o
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  An overview of a new policy framework for higher education transformation in South Africa

  Policy and Law Online News [Polity.org.za], 1999
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  Social welfare in South Africa: Government White Paper

  African National Congress, 1999
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  Higher education transformation in South Africa: Government Green Paper

  African National Congress, 1999
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  Situation and prospects for forest conservation and development: FAO State of the World's Forests 1997: Part 1

  State of the World's Forests, FAO, 1999
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  Stock market development and financial intermediaries : stylized facts

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  The three most developed stock markets are in Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and the most underdeveloped markets are in Colombia, Nigeria, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe.
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  Environmental regulation and development : a cross - country empirical analysis

  New Ideas in Pollution Regulation, World Bank, 1995

  Paper develops comparative indices of environmental policy and performance for thirty-one countries, using a quantified analysis of reports prepared for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).
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  Urban Indicators Programme

  United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 1999

  The UNCHS Indicators Programme has developed key indicators concerning urban and housing conditions for the development of government policy and strategies, as well as monitoring and evaluation. These indicators, collected from over one hundred countries, provide a well developed and significant contribution to the World’s Cities and Housing assessment.
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  Ghana Country Assistance Review: A study in Development Effectiveness

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995

  Bank assistance was generally effective in helping Ghana make considerable economic progress over the past decade.
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  Political, economic and social institutions : a review of growth evidence

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998

  Integrates North's institutional framework with the notion of institutions in the augmented Solow growth model, to clarify the direct and indirect channels by which institutions influence growth. Four ways to extend the Solow model in order to incorporate a rôle for institutions are outlined; and growth regressions are reinterpreted in this light.

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