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People

Population	10.63 mln
Population growth	1%
Life expectancy	80 years
Net migration	179,925

Economy

GDP	$452.75 bln
- per capita	$42,609
- growth rate	3%
FDI, net inflows	$72.19 bln

Infrastructure

Cellphone users	101%
Internet users	66%
High-tech exports	7%

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International Technology Agreements for Climate Change

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This paper examines the effect of multilateral energy technology initiatives, so called "Implementing Agreements", on international research collaboration in seven important climate change mitigation technologies. The analysis is conducted using patent data on 33 OECD countries during the period 1970- 2009. It was found that co-invention is significantly affected by the membership in the Implementing Agreement. Extending adherence to other countries would increase co-invention by about 90% in more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 13, 2012

The Child Health Implications of Privatizing Africa's Urban Water Supply

stanford.edu –

Can private sector participation (PSP) in the urban piped water sector improve child health? Allowing the private sector to provide basic infrastructure such as water is politically controversial, with some arguing that the private sector is more efficient and will improve access and quality, and others arguing that they will suffer. The author uses child-level data from 39 African countries during 1986-2010 to show that the introduction of PSP in the water sector decreases diarrhea among more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 08, 2012

CO2 Abatement from Renewable Energy Injections in the German Electricity Sector

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The overlapping impact of the Emission Trading System (ETS) and renewable energy (RE) deployment targets creates a classic case of interaction effects. Whereas the price interaction is widely recognized and has been thoroughly discussed, the effect of an overlapping instrument on the abatement attributable to an instrument has gained little attention. This paper estimates the actual reduction in demand for European Union Allowances that has occurred due to RE deployment focusing on the German more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 03, 2012

Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) Conference

cpdpconferences.org –

(Brussels, Belgium) The conference aims to create a bridge between policy makers, academics, practitioners and activists. It is neither a purely academic conference nor a business or activist conference. It is a privacy stakeholder conference set up by five academic institutes with the aim to bring together academics, practitioners, policy-makers and civil society so they can meet, exchange ideas and discuss emerging issues of information technology, privacy, data protection and law.

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D C on January 19, 2012

Young people and recession. A lost generation?

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This article reviews the effects of the Great Recession on youth labor markets. The authors argue that young people aged 16-24 continue to suffer suffered disproportionately. Using the USA and UK as case studies, they analyze youth unemployment using micro-data. The authors argue that there is convincing evidence that the young are particularly susceptible to the negative effects of spells of unemployment well after their initial experience of worklessness. Because the current youth cohort is more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 26, 2012

Optimal public investment, growth and consumption

bwpi.manchester.ac.uk –

How much does public capital matter for economic growth? How large should it be? This paper attempts to answer these questions, taking the case of Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. It develops and estimates a model that posits a non-linear relationship between public investment and growth, to determine the growth-maximizing public investment GDP share. It empirically also accounts for the crowding-in and crowding-out effects between public and private investment, with equations estimated more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 11, 2012

Civil Society Participation in EPA Implementation

acp-eu-trade.org –

While civil society participation in decision-making processes is not an entirely new phenomenon, in the past decade, there have been new developments both in the degree of citizen participation and the realms in which they participate. The paper aims to raise key questions and issues pertinent to the effective functioning of the Consultative Committee and to provide preliminary recommendations for its effective functioning. The paper therefore poses the following questions: What are the more...

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Sonia Hossain on March 29, 2012

Value for money?

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A significant amount of money is spent on programs to stimulate innovative activities. In this paper, the authors review the effects of a specific government-sponsored commercial R&D program from various angles. The paper starts by evaluating whether we find positive effects of subsidies on R&D investment and R&D employment. Then, it analyzes how the observed effects of subsidies on R&D intensity and employment vary over time, vary if the firm receives also support from other more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 09, 2012

Health Data in Civil Conflicts

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The objective of this study is to summarize the knowledge and knowledge gaps on the public health situation in South Sudan and to give recommendations for programme planning in this region for the near future. The authors present a picture of the current public health situation in South Sudan and show trends over time, taking underlying factors into account where possible.

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Sonia Hossain on March 07, 2012

Impact of economic crises on mental health

euro.who.int –

The economic crisis is expected to produce secondary mental health effects that may increase suicide and alcohol death rates. However, the mental health effects of the economic crisis can be offset by social welfare and other policy measures. For example, active labor market programmes aimed at helping people retain or regain jobs counteract the mental health effects of the economic crisis. Family support programmes contribute to counteracting the mental health effects of the crisis. Increasing more...

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Sonia Hossain on January 29, 2012

Last week in ACP-EU news

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[January 2012]. Last week, key issues caught the attention of the development community. Stunning seemed to be the declarations of Ambassador Rahamatullah Osman, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who shed light on some key questions regarding Sudan-EU relations. Speaking of the COTONOU Agreement, he underlined that Sudan did not sign amendments to this, as these clashed with the Sudan policy. “Our relations with Europe follow two tracks. Collective, that is more...

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CTA Brussels office on January 23, 2012

Intellectual Property Rights and South- North Formation of Global Innovation Networks

recent.unimore.it –

With the rise of the knowledge economy, delivering sound innovation policies requires a thoroughunderstanding of how knowledge is produced and diffused. This paper takes a step to analyze a new form of globalization, the so-called system of Global Innovation Networks (GINs), to shed light on how the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) influences their creation and development. The authors focus on the role of IPR protection in fostering international innovative activities in more...

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Sonia Hossain on September 25, 2011

Sustained, high joblessness causes lasting damage

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This paper explains that the monthly unemployment and underemployment rates do not capture the full picture of how many U.S. workers experience labor market distress. The authors highlight racial and ethnic labor market disparities throughout the paper. Though roughly 31% of all U.S. workers experienced unemployment or underemployment at some point in 2009—the rates were higher for African-American and Hispanic workers, at 36% and 41%, respectively. To portray the many dimensions of the economy more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 01, 2012

Last week in ACP-EU news

brussels.cta.int –

[January 2012] Last week several issues caught the attention of the Development Community. LDCs accession process guidelines are set to improve: As called for in a decision by the Eighth WTO Ministerial Conference, the accession process of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) is expected to be improved: The Sub-Committee on LDCs recently agreed to start work on developing recommendations to “further strengthen, streamline and operationalise” the current guidelines. Some of the LDCs in the more...

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CTA Brussels office on January 30, 2012

Mobile Phone Use and Driver Distraction

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Driver distraction is an important risk factor for road traffic injuries. This document focuses on the use of mobile phones while driving, in response to concern among policy-makers that this potential risk to road safety is increasing rapidly as a result of the exponential growth in the use of mobile phones more generally in society. It aims to raise awareness about the risks of distracted driving associated with mobile phone use, and to present countermeasures that are being used around the more...

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Sonia Hossain on February 09, 2012

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