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  People
  
  Population 10.76 mln
  
  Population growth 3%
  
  Life expectancy 51 years
  
  Net migration 218,966
  
  Economy
  
  GDP $7.08 bln
  
  - per capita $658
  
  - growth rate 1%
  
  FDI, net inflows $0.6 bln
  
  Infrastructure
  
  Cellphone users 9%
  
  Internet users 1%
  
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Prohibiting corporal punishment of children in the Caribbean - Progress report 2012

This 64-page report "Prohibiting corporal punishment of children in the Caribbean: Progress report 2012" – charts progress and delay in prohibiting and eliminating this form of violence against children in the region. It describes research showing the nature and extent of corporal punishment in Caribbean countries and reveals the high level of support among faith groups and others for its abolition. The report sets out the human rights obligation to protect children from all forms of corporal more...

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Moushumi Biswas on May 16, 2012

Are Banks and Microfinance Institutions Natural Partners in Financial Inclusion?

microsave.org –

This paper explores how Banks and MFIs in partnership can achieve financial inclusion in the long run while working on the business correspondents (BC) model. In 2006, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) permitted banks to use services of third parties as BCs to increase its outreach beyond its branches.This paper identifies banks, BCs, agent network managers (ANMs), customer service points (CSPs) or agents and technology service providers (TSPs) as distinct players in this model. The BC channel more...

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D C on May 10, 2012

The effect of an integrated multisector model for achieving the MDGs and improving child survival in rural sub-Saharan Africa

download.thelancet.com –

Simultaneously addressing multiple Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has the potential to complement essential health interventions to accelerate gains in child survival. The Millennium Villages project is an integrated multisector approach to rural development operating across diverse sub-Saharan African sites. Our aim was to assess the effects of the project on MDG-related outcomes including child mortality 3 years after implementation and compare these changes to local and national more...

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D C on May 14, 2012

Urban adaptation to climate change in Europe

eea.europa.eu –

This report provides a European overview of the challenges and opportunities of urban adaptation to climate change and links them with these other initiatives that provide more detailed information on local climate change impacts, and good practice guidance. As such it facilitates the debate on European and national support for urban adaptation, feeds into the European Climate Adaptation Platform Climate‑ADAPT, and supports an effective participation of local governments in the development and more...

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Moushumi Biswas on May 16, 2012

A Community for All: Implementing Article 19

soros.org –

The Community for All guide and checklist offers a detailed look at the rights identified in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), especially Article 19 of the CRPD which provides for the right to live independently and be included in the community. The guide and checklist are intended to help advocates and program implementers identify the obligations on States to realize these rights. Community for All promotes the right of all people with disabilities to live more...

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D C on May 15, 2012

How is the biggest ecosystem on Earth faring in the lead up to Rio+20

medsea-project.eu –

The ocean covers nearly three quarters of the Earth’s surface, contains 96% of its living space, provides around half of the oxygen we breathe and is an increasing source of protein for a rapidly growing world population. It is imperative that international decision-makers understand the enormous role the ocean plays in sustaining life on Earth, and the consequences of a high CO2 world for the ocean and society.In the future many parts of the ocean are likely to experience more than one of more...

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D C on May 15, 2012

Women and the city: Examining the gender impact of violence and urbanisation

actionaid.org –

The research explores the ways violence and insecurity limit poor urban women’s mobility and their participation in society. Urbanisation can bring new opportunities, particularly in relation to employment and participation in organised groups. However, it also brings many challenges. Across the world, women experience violence or the fear of violence on a daily basis, travelling to and from work, taking their children to schools and travelling to and from markets. Moreover, urban men and women more...

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D C on May 14, 2012

Civil engineering to be a driving force of the Romanian construction industry

pmrcorporate.com –

Romanian civil engineering construction has registered considerably better performance in 2011 compared to the residential and non-residential segments, which posted decreases. The reason behind this is increased capital expenditure on infrastructure projects, particularly road and railway construction.Despite the strong economic downturn Romania experienced in 2009 and 2010, the value of civil engineering works has not decreased greatly, compared to the decreases in non-residential and more...

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Justyna Król on May 16, 2012

Ripe for Innovation: Democratized Diagnostics for the bottom of pyramid

nextbillion.net –

Take Diagnostics for All, a social enterprise innovating point-of-care (PoC) diagnostics. Its new liver-health test in India is the size of a postage stamp and free of equipment, allowing providers to perform tests just about anywhere, in under 15 minutes, and for less than one cent. As the enterprise reminds us, “in resource-poor countries, where roughly 20 percent of TB patients and 25 percent of HIV patients, lacking access to diagnostic tools, succumb to liver complications,” this is no more...

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D C on May 10, 2012

No More "Green Capitalism"

cadtm.org –

We will save the markets, not the climate. That is how we can summarize the outcome of the 17th Conference of Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCC) which took place in Durban, South Africa between 28 November and 10 December 2011. With regard to the Green Climate Fund, as a first step, rich countries pledged to contribute up to $ 30 billion in 2012 and 100 billion per year until 2020. In the first place these amounts are insufficient. Further, no source of more...

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D C on May 14, 2012

Defining and Measuring Green FDI

oecd-ilibrary.org –

This paper was developed at the request of the OECD Working Party of the Investment Committee to document efforts to date to define and measure green FDI and to investigate the practicability of various possible definitions, as well as to identify investment policy restrictions to green FDI. It does so by reviewing the literature and existing work on the contributions of FDI to the environment; by providing a two-part definition of green FDI; and by discussing various assumptions necessary to more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 13, 2012

Guidance for operational risk management in government debt management

www-wds.worldbank.org –

Operational risk is defined as the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems or from external events. In debt management operations, the categories of risks, such as market risk, credit risk, refinancing risk and liquidity risk, are relatively well known; however operational risk is not. The area has not been given due attention to by government debt managers in developing a risk management framework. A similar conclusion on aspects pertaining to more...

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D C on May 10, 2012

Fighting Maternal and Child Malnutrition

ids.ac.uk –

This report proposes a framework to understand how good nutrition governance can contribute to positive changes directly related to nutrition outcomes Existing works around nutrition have acknowledged the importance of governance organisations and institutions to improve the quality of nutritional outcomes (Pelletier 2002, 2011; Natalicchio 2002; REACH 2009; WHO 2009). This paper makes two contributions to existing approaches:It provides a qualitative account of how formal political more...

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Moushumi Biswas on May 16, 2012

Education reform in Mozambique : Lessons and Challenges

openknowledge.worldbank.org –

The report opens with a brief description of the conceptual framework that guided the analysis as well as the data used. The next chapter presents the analysis of changes in household behavior and educational outcomes related to the implementation of the reforms, at both the primary and secondary levels. The descriptive nature of this analysis does not allow for inferences regarding the effects of the reforms on enrollment and demand for education. The following chapter presents the results of more...

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D C on May 08, 2012

Climate Investment Funds Monitor

brettonwoodsproject.org –

The World Bank-housed CIFs are financing instruments designed to pilot low-carbon and climate-resilient development through the multilateral development banks (MDBs). They are comprised of two trust funds – the CTF and the SCF. The SCF is an overarching fund aimed at piloting new development approaches. It consists of three targeted programmes: PPCR, FIP and SREP. So far donors have pledged $4.3 billion to the CTF and $1.9 billion to the SCF.The Clean Technology Fund (CTF) approved India’s more...

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D C on May 14, 2012

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