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People

Population	8.32 mln
Life expectancy	80 years
Net migration	180,000

Economy

GDP	$373.19 bln
- per capita	$44,879
- growth rate	3%
FDI, net inflows	$30.72 bln

Infrastructure

Cellphone users	119%
Internet users	67%
High-tech exports	11%

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Climate change adaptation and the Australian urban water industry

wsaa.asn.au –

The purpose of this document is to highlight the impacts the Australian urban water industry are facing due to climate change and how the industry has adapted. It considers 'natural disasters' such as floods, droughts and bushfires, as well as changes to the average and extremes in temperatures and rainfall, sea level rise, and the risks to: (i) built and social environment, including urban planning, community well-being and economic considerations; (ii) biophysical environment, including more...

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Moushumi Biswas on April 22, 2012

Population Aging and the Generational Economy

idl-bnc.idrc.ca –

The goal of this study is to improve our understanding of how changes in population age structure are influencing national economies. Until recently changes in age structure were favorable for most countries as populations became increasingly concentrated in the working ages. Effectively addressing the economic challenges of population aging is especially difficult, for two reasons. The first is that countries cannot rely exclusively on their own experience because in any given country changes more...

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Sonia Hossain on March 19, 2012

Guide to children and young people’s participation in actions against corporal punishment

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Corporal punishment of children is painful, disrespectful and dangerous. The Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children aims to speed the end of corporal punishment of children across the world, through the provision of information and technical assistance on the prohibition and elimination of corporal and other cruel, humiliating and degrading punishment of children. The information about children’s actions against corporal punishment in this guide was gathered through more...

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Sonia Hossain on March 29, 2012

The relevance of CBNRM to the conservation and sustainable use of CITES-listed species in exporting countries

pubs.iied.org –

CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) provides a global regulatory system of permits and certificates for transboundary trade for over 34.000 species of animals and plants. A symposium on community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) for the conservation of CITES-listed species was organized by the Austrian Ministry of the Environment and the European Commission in Vienna, Austria, in May 2010. This document provides the proceedings of an more...

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Sonia Hossain on December 25, 2011

Migration, Trade and Unemployment

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This paper aims to identify the effects of immigration alongside trade on unemployment taking into account the substitutability of worker and goods flows. The authors use data from 24 OECD countries over the period from 1997 to 2007 and employ instrumental variables fixed effects and dynamic panel estimators in order to account for unobserved heterogeneity as well as the potential endogeneity of migration flows and the high persistence of unemployment. The authors find a significant negative more...

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Sonia Hossain on December 21, 2011

Migrants in an irregular situation employed in domestic work

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The report explores, through fieldwork, the situation of domestic work in 10 EU Member States, namely Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Spain and Sweden. These countries were selected to cover a cross-section of EU geographic regions, and welfare systems and provisions regulating the domestic work sector and the rights of this group. This report concentrates on five fundamental rights areas which emerged as the most relevant for migrant domestic workers in an more...

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Sonia Hossain on December 27, 2011

Explaining International IT Application Leadership

itif.org –

Identification is routinely used to help facilitate commercial and government transactions, such as taking out a loan or applying for government benefits. This report reviews the programs and practices of some of the countries with the most advanced and widely deployed national e-ID systems. It highlights the successes and failures of different approaches and focuses on the lessons that policymakers, particularly in the United States, can learn from nations that have begun adopting and using more...

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Sonia Hossain on October 10, 2011

Labor Market Policy in The Great Recession

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This paper reviews labor-market performance of Denmark and Germany during the Great Recession. From the mid-1990s through the onset of the Great Recession, Denmark had what were arguably the most successful labor-market outcomes in the OECD, but the country has suffered in recent years. Germany, on the other hand, struggled with high unemployment, slow job growth, and rising wage inequality through much of the period between unification and the onset of the Great Recession, but has outperformed more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 25, 2011

Social Climate

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This special Eurobarometer survey on the social climate gives answers to the following questions: how does this state of change affect the European public? How are European citizens responding to this changing economic situation? What is the impact on their daily lives? The Eurobarometer survey at hand intends to uncover these opinions and see whether or not there have been any changes since the last wave of analysis, in 2010. Around 1,000 people have been interviewed in each country. This more...

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Sonia Hossain on December 20, 2011

Public health in Austria. An analysis of the status of public health

euro.who.int –

This book explores the key challenges facing Austria’s public health system. Set firmly in the context of the history, scope, functions and responsibilities of public health in developed countries, it examines how the Austrian system has developed and adapted over the last 50 years to the benefit of the population. It also looks at the challenges presented by life in the 21st century.The book draws on both national research and expert interviews to present a fully-rounded picture. This shows more...

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Moushumi Biswas on November 22, 2011

Education against violence at school

assembly.coe.int –

Too many schools in Europe continue to be confronted with very serious acts of violence. Incidents include attacks by pupils with or without weapons, bullying and harassment among pupils, sexual violence, acts of hostility and even aggression against teachers by pupils, as well as the use of violence by teachers against pupils. To this end, the Parliamentary Assembly wishes to encourage the design and effective implementation of proactive educational policies against violence at school and in more...

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Sonia Hossain on August 01, 2011

Combating Trafficking in Human Beings for Labour Exploitation

ilo.org –

In this book, the results of the project ‘Combating trafficking in human beings (THB) for Labor Exploitation’ funded by the European Commission and commissioned to Tilburg University are presented.The overall aim of the project was to bring together the prosecution of traffickers and the protection of victims of THB as two aspects of the human rights based approach to THB for labor exploitation in an integrated and interrelated way, and to strengthen the operational response to this form of more...

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Sonia Hossain on June 01, 2011

Maximising the Development Impact of Migration-related Financial Flows and Investment from Austria

iomvienna.at –

The overall objective of this study is to provide related stakeholders with relevant data, information, conclusions and recommendations to support sustainable development within the South East Europe (SEE) regional context. It does so by examining innovative means of promoting the positive aspects of migration and development, especially as they are connected to migration‐related financial flows.

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Sonia Hossain on August 24, 2010

Agricultural Outlook 2009-2018

agri-outlook.org –

The annual Agricultural Outlook report is prepared jointly by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The Agricultural Outlook presents a consistent view on the evolution of global agricultural markets over the next decade and provides a baseline for further analysis of alternative economic or policy assumptions. This report covers biofuels, cereals, oilseeds, sugar, meats, and dairy products over more...

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Sonia Hossain on August 09, 2009

Austrian Research and Technology Report 2011

bmvit.gv.at –

The Austrian Research and Technology Report 2011 provides an overall perspective on the Austrian innovation system, including current research- and technology-related topics and an analysis of developments in the field. The information provided here is intended to help react adequately to long-term research- and technology-related policy challenges. The federal government’s strategy, approved in March 2011 and called “Tapping potentials, increasing dynamism, creating the future: Becoming an more...

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Sonia Hossain on November 01, 2011

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