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    <title><![CDATA[Best Sollution Anti Aging problem]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Astonishingly,  that is just a guess but it is the case if and when this works. There was a certain elegance regarding Dermapure. Of course, permit me ask you the question so that will be really dicey. Somehow or other, here's a DermaPure news break. I'm covering everything. Maybe you're considering this part of DermaPure. You expect this, correct? I will attempt to offer some insight into how to buy DermaPure. It is how to promote DermaPure. I know that you may be deep in thought on DermaPure. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 07:02:52 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Youth and the Labor Force: Background and Trends]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Congress has indicated a strong interest in ensuring that today’s young people—those ages 16 through 24—attain the education and employment experience necessary to make the transition to adulthood as skilled workers and taxpayers. This report provides context for policymakers on the youth employment situation. It includes data on labor force participation, employment, and unemployment in the post-World War II period, with a focus on trends since 2000. This discussion compares rates based on age,]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 05:21:27 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Gender Disparities in Africa's Labor Market]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The main aim of this book is to help fill the gap in current knowledge about the nature, the extent, and some of the root causes of gender disparities in Africa, showing what can be revealed about the application of standard and less standard tools and methods to existing survey and national account data. The analysis herein is novel in providing in-depth assessments of some of the sources of gender disparities in different labor market outcomes. A part of the book provides results on the basis ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 05:13:28 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Job Growth During the Recovery]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Congress in recent years passed a number of bills intended in part to jump-start a recovery in the labor market from the recession that began in December 2007. This report provides a snapshot of the current situation in the labor market to better inform policymakers with regard to further assisting the unemployed, such as workers laid off from industries that may have permanently downsized employment (e.g., construction).]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 05:12:59 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Trafficking in Persons in Latin America and the Caribbean]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Trafficking in persons (TIP) for the purpose of exploitation is a lucrative criminal activity that is of major concern to the United States and the international community. Countries in Latin America serve as source, transit, and destination countries for trafficking victims. This report describes the nature and scope of the problem of trafficking in persons in Latin America and the Caribbean.1 It then describes U.S. efforts to deal with trafficking in persons in the region, as well as discusses]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 05:05:56 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Accelerating Inclusive Business Opportunities: Business Models that Make a Difference]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The report, Accelerating Inclusive Business Opportunities: Business Models that Make a Difference, underscores IFC’s commitment to creating opportunity at the base of the economic pyramid. Its findings are based on an analysis of IFC’s portfolio, which found that mature investments in companies with inclusive business models show financial returns very similar to those of IFC’s portfolio as a whole, while having a larger impact on development. The report was released at IFC’s 2nd Annual Inclusiv]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 05:00:04 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[On currency misalignments within the euro area]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[In this paper, the authors assess real exchange rate misalignments for euro area countries by using a Behavioral Equilibrium Exchange Rate (BEER) approach on the period 1980-2010. The results show that the peripheral member countries have been suffering from increasingly overvalued exchange rates since the mid-2000s, as their real appreciation has not stemmed from improving fundamentals in terms of productivity or external position. In addition, currency misalignments have been increased on aver]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 04:54:12 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Biofuels goals 'may lead to food shortages']]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Parts of the developing world, particularly India and countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, will suffer food shortages if their planned biofuels targets are implemented by 2020, a study has warned. More than 40 countries have made commitments to meet at least ten per cent of their transportation fuel needs with biofuel by 2020. "Our results suggest that the impacts would be significant in developing countries like India and Sub-Saharan Africa," the researchers, based in Ethiopia, Italy and the United]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 04:42:02 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Great Shift: Macroeconomic projections for the world economy at the 2050 horizon]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[In this paper, the authors present growth scenarios for 147 countries to 2050, based on MaGE (Macroeconometrics of the Global Economy), a three-factor production function that includes capital, labor and energy. The results suggest that, accounting for relative price variations, China could account for 33% of the world economy in 2050, which would be much more than the United States (9%), India (8%), the European Union (12%) and Japan (5%). They suggest also that China would overtake the United ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 04:41:08 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Equal Rights, Unequal Opportunities]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Funded by UN Women, this paper sets out to explore some of the dynamics of women’s participation as candidates and voters in Afghanistan’s 2005 and 2009/10 parliamentary and PC elections, focusing on their personal experiences of taking part and how they compared across different elections, their perceptions on the importance and nature of the process, and the impact their participation had on their personal lives and their communities. In exploring the experiences of parliamentary and PC conten]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 04:31:53 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Open science, open access and open source software at Open Medicine]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Is access to the final polished version of research enough? Could we do more to encourage the collaborative reuse and reanalysis of existing data, or the verification of analyses? Could we move from open access to open science?As the name seems to imply, there is no strict definition of open science, but it is inextricably linked to the parallel movements of open access publication and open source software. Open Medicine itself is using open source software to underpin its journal management, bl]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 04:15:39 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Simple Truth about The Gender Pay Gap]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Did you know that in 2010, women working full time in the United States still earned just 77 percent, on average, of what men earn, a gap of 23 percent? This guide provides key facts about the gender pay gap in the United States, along with explanations and resources. Information is organized around six common questions:1. What is the pay gap?2. Is the pay gap really about women’s life choices?3. How does the pay gap affect women of different demographics?4. Is there a pay gap in all jobs?5. Wha]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 04:14:03 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Is Humanity Doomed? Insights from Astrobiology]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Astrobiology, the study of life in the universe, offers profound insights into human sustainability. However, astrobiology is commonly neglected in sustainability research. This paper develops three topics connecting astrobiology to sustainability: constraints on what zones in the universe are habitable, the absence of observations of extraterrestrial civilizations, and the physical fate of the&nbsp; universe. These topics have major implications for our thinking and action on sustainability. Wh]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 04:04:40 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Free Seeds, not Free Beer: Participatory Plant Breeding, Open Source Seeds, and Acknowledging User Innovation in Agriculture]]></title>
    <link>http://zunia.org/post/free-seeds-not-free-beer-participatory-plant-breeding-open-source-seeds-and-acknowledging-user-i/</link>
    <description><![CDATA[In the context of user-innovation, agriculture has been a field where farmers substantively contributed to developing and improving existing and new plant varieties. This essay looks at how the rise and expansion of intellectual property rights in plants and varieties during the twentieth century has significantl&nbsp; reduced the role of farmers in plant breeding, turning them into consumers providing labor to raise crops in which others hold the underlying intellectual property rights.This ess]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 03:56:09 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[The price of motherhood: women and part-time work]]></title>
    <link>http://zunia.org/post/the-price-of-motherhood-women-and-part-time-work/</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Over the last 30 years, female employment has become increasingly important in maintaining the living standards of households on low to middle incomes (LMIs). Female employment falls significantly behind some of our international competitors among women over 50 and women with children. To find out more about the nature of the choices women face when opting for part-time work, this report presents the results of a survey conducted by the Resolution Foundation in partnership with Netmums, the UK’s]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 03:56:05 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[What do HVAC installers think about the Polish market?]]></title>
    <link>http://zunia.org/post/what-do-hvac-installers-think-about-the-polish-market-1/</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Success in the HVAC industry in Poland is connected to the construction market, and even more dependent on a thorough knowledge of the products and producers that make up the required climate control solutions sought by customers. This knowledge, along with concise market data, insightful analysis and reliable forecasts, is available in a newly released market report from PMR Publishing. HVAC market in Poland, 2012, Development forecasts for 2012-2014 was created with input from 300 small and me]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 03:51:26 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Forgotten Workforce]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[This report highlights the main push factors driving the migration of women and girls from Burma, and exposed the situation they faced as migrant workers in Thailand, India and China. Burma’s continuing political repression and economic deterioration, coupled with China’s rapid growth, have caused a new phenomenon over the past few years: large-scale northward migration from Burma to China. The migrant women interviewed by BWU in Ruili revealed persistent patterns of work exploitation, occupatio]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 03:42:58 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Impact of Trade Facilitation on the Extensive and Intensive Margins of Trade]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Previous literature has looked merely into the effect of trade facilitation on aggregate trade, or analyzed trade growth using the extensive and intensive margins. This paper blends these two lines of research for a detailed analysis of the impact of trade facilitation on trade by using highly disaggregated trade data and a more composite index for measuring trade facilitation, also taking into account the export sectors and income levels of countries. As a result, this paper finds that developi]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 03:25:41 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Trade and Innovation]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Trade is one of the framework conditions that can strengthen innovation in the business sector, as set out in the OECD Innovation Strategy in 2010. This paper broadly sets out three channels through which trade affects innovation. First, imports and foreign direct investment (FDI) as well as trade in technology serve as channels of technology diffusion. Second, imports, FDI and technology licensing contribute to intensifying competition, which can affect incentives for innovation. Third, exports]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 03:16:03 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Trade Effects of Exchange Rates and their Volatility: Chile and New Zealand]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The impact of exchange rate levels on trade has been much debated but the large body of existing empirical literature does not suggest an unequivocally clear picture of the trade impacts of changes in exchange rates. This study examines the impact of exchange rates and their volatility on trade flows in two small, open economies – Chile and New Zealand – with three major trading partners, in two broadly defined sectors – agriculture on the one hand and manufacturing and mining on the other. It f]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 03:03:56 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Empowering Lives, Building Resilience]]></title>
    <link>http://zunia.org/post/empowering-lives-building-resilience-1/</link>
    <description><![CDATA[This publication features success stories from 16 countries where UNDP support has resulted in transformative changes, including by fostering the growth of institutional and human capacities. The success stories in this publication show how UND P has contributed to building the capabilities of government institutions, civil society and the private sector by providing seed funding, expertise and implementation support, and by bringing different parties together. Across the stories, several key fa]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 02:08:35 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Integrating Energy Access and Employment Creation to Accelerate Progress on the MDGs in Sub-Saharan Africa]]></title>
    <link>http://zunia.org/post/integrating-energy-access-and-employment-creation-to-accelerate-progress-on-the-mdgs-in-sub-saharan/</link>
    <description><![CDATA[About 380 million people still live under $1.25 a day in Sub-Saharan Africa. This report demonstrates through case studies from Burkina Faso, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, South Africa and South Sudan that complementary policies and programmes can greatly improve the beneficial impact of energy access on unemployment, economic growth, and progress towards the MDGs. The report identifies barriers and drivers of scaling up energy access, particularly via decentralized and renewable energy options; and it p]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 02:00:20 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Future of Gamification]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[While some people dismiss gamification as a fad, neuroscientists are discovering more and more about the ways in which humans react to such interactive design elements. They say such elements can cause feel-good chemical reactions, alter human responses to stimuli - increasing reaction times, for instance - and in certain situations can improve learning, participation, and motivation. Technology consultancy Gartner has projected 50% of corporate innovation will be “gamified” by 2015. Another con]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 01:57:32 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Output-based contracts in small-town water supply in Uganda]]></title>
    <link>http://zunia.org/post/output-based-contracts-in-small-town-water-supply-in-uganda/</link>
    <description><![CDATA[This report presents findings from a review of the role of the domestic private sector in the delivery of urban water in Uganda.  Since the introduction of the output-based aid (OBA) scheme in 2008, some towns have seen a relatively rapid increase in the number of connections, while using less public funding than under traditional management contracts. However, replication elsewhere is unlikely to be successful without consideration of the underlying structural and institutional reform condition]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 01:50:42 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Small-Scale Water Providers in Kenya: Pioneers or Predators?]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[In 2008, 83 percent of Kenyans living in urban areas, had access to safe drinking water – down from 91 percent in 1990. This gradual deterioration in urban water access is mainly due to growing demand caused by rapid population growth, especially in the informal settlements Small-scale private water providers have entered the market to fill the gap left in public service provision. This study examines what role they play in ensuring affordable, safe and reliable water supply. It finds that small]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 01:38:12 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Role of the Domestic Private Sector in Water Service Delivery in Tanzania]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[This report presents findings from a review of the service activities of informal private water vendors in Dar es Salaam. Tanzania’s capital is a rapidly growing city, and around 70 percent of the population lacks proper housing and lives in informal settlements. small-scale private water vendors provide an essential service for many, in particular low-income households in the city. Based on a small-sample survey of the operations of small-scale private vendors, the report finds that this segmen]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 01:27:13 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Global “No” To a Nuclear-Armed Iran]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[96% of the French and the Germans, 94% of Americans and 91% of the British oppose Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. Other Europeans have similar sentiments. Fully 95% in Spain, 94% in Czech Republic and 91% in Italy do not want Tehran to have an atomic bomb. Roughly three-in-four Russians (77%) are against Tehran acquiring nuclear armaments. In China, 54% oppose Tehran’s nuclear weapons ambitions, down 15 points from 2007.Iran’s regional neighbors generally would rather not see an Iranian nuclear arse]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 01:26:25 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Innovative Financing for Development]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[This Discussion Paper explores recent experiences with innovative sources of development finance in order to capture lessons learned for the more effective implementation of both current and future initiatives. The paper first looks at what is understood by the term ‘innovative financing for development’ since the term encompasses a heterogeneous mix of innovations both in fund-raising and in spending on the ground. It then summarizes some of the major schemes implemented so far and outline how ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 01:18:51 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Ecosystem services and agriculture: Tradeoffs and synergies]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Agricultural ecosystems provide humans with food, forage, bioenergy and pharmaceuticals and are essential to human wellbeing. These systems rely on ecosystem services provided by natural ecosystems, including pollination, biological pest control, maintenance of soil structure and fertility, nutrient cycling and hydrological services. Preliminary assessments indicate that the value of these ecosystem services to agriculture is enormous and often underappreciated.he tradeoffs that may occur betwee]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 01:18:09 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Egypt: 'Shouting slogans into the wind']]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[This briefing lists many of the human rights concerns that Amnesty International has documented since the beginning of 2010, including tightening restrictions on freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly in the run-up to the parliamentary elections. Amnesty International is concerned that the pattern being established is one that is already familiar from previous elections which were carried out amid, and marred by, serious human rights violations.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 01:01:22 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Mobilizing Knowledge Networks for Development Conference]]></title>
    <link>http://zunia.org/post/mobilizing-knowledge-networks-for-development-conference/</link>
    <description><![CDATA[June 19 - 20, 2012Location: The World Bank Group1818 H Street NW, Washington DC 20433The goal of the workshop is to explore ways to become better providers and connectors of knowledge in a world where the sources of knowledge are increasingly diverse and disbursed. The goal is to find better ways to connect those that have the development knowledge with those that need it, when they need it.The Conference and Knowledge fair will provide an opportunity for knowledge organizations working in devel]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 00:59:42 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Climate Change, the Clean Air Act, and Industrial Pollution]]></title>
    <link>http://zunia.org/post/climate-change-the-clean-air-act-and-industrial-pollution/</link>
    <description><![CDATA[This article, prepared for UCLA Law’s spring 2011 symposium entitled “Perspectives on Climate Change, Pollution, and the Clean Air Act,” begins by addressing an interesting but narrow question: what are the co-pollutant implications of applying the Clean Air Act (CAA) to stationary source greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions? Part I of this article begins by exploring the threshold issue of why co-pollutant consequences should be an important parameter for evaluating and designing climate policies. It]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 00:51:27 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Wasting Our Waterways 2012]]></title>
    <link>http://zunia.org/post/wasting-our-waterways-2012/</link>
    <description><![CDATA[According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), pollution from industrial facilities is responsible for threatening or fouling water quality in more than 14,000 miles of rivers and streams, more than 220,000 acres of lakes, ponds and estuaries nationwide. This report uses data from the federal government’s Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) to estimate releases of toxic chemicals to American waterways in 2010. In this report, the authors examine data on toxic discharges through several ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 00:39:02 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Millennium villages project 'a success']]></title>
    <link>http://zunia.org/post/millennium-villages-project-a-success/</link>
    <description><![CDATA["The Millennium Villages Project (MVP) has significantly reduced infant mortality at sites across Sub-Saharan Africa, according to a study published this week (8 May) and reported on in Nature News."The project, which is spearheaded by the Earth Institute at Columbia University in the United States, aims to boost the health and food security of the poorest people in Africa, through investments in fields such as agriculture, the environment, education and health, in partnership with local governm]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 08:45:00 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Empowering Women for Stronger Political Parties]]></title>
    <link>http://zunia.org/post/empowering-women-for-stronger-political-parties-2/</link>
    <description><![CDATA[This publication identifies targeted interventions for promoting the stronger presence and influence of women in political parties as well as advancing gender equality issues in party policies and platforms. The lessons learned and common strategies in this Guide are drawn mainly, but not exclusively, from 20 case studies that were commissioned by UNDP and conducted by NDI during 2009-2010. The entry points identified are designed to provide ideas for action for political parties, development as]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 05:27:09 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[World Economic Situation and Prospects 2012]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Following two years of anaemic and uneven recovery from the global financial crisis, the world economy is teetering on the brink of another major downturn. Output growth has already slowed considerably during 2011, especially in the developed countries. the global crisis and the recent financial turmoil have highlighted the need for very large liquidity buffers to deal with sudden, large capital market shocks. Many developing countries have continued to accumulate vast amounts of reserves($1.1 t]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Intellectual Property Rights and International Trade: An Overview]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[There have been extraordinary changes in intellectual property (commonly referred to as IP) law and policy over the last 20 years, many as the result of their intersection with international trade and the numerous international trade agreements brought into force during this period. The increase in cross-border exchanges of goods, services, capital and knowledge is one reason for this shift; structural changes in all economies — with knowledge emerging as society’s most important tradable econom]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 04:52:18 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Cost effectiveness of strategies to combat cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and tobacco use in sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The objective of this study is to determine the relative costs and health effects of interventions to combat cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and tobacco related disease in order to guide the allocation of resources in developing countries. This comparative economic assessment has identified a set of population-wide and individual strategies for prevention and control of cardiovascular disease that are inexpensive and cost effective in low resource settings.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 04:44:55 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Key issues in Uganda's energy sector]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Uganda has abundant energy resources, especially renewable resources, yet there is widespread energy poverty throughout the country. The country’s energy sector faces considerable challenges including high costs for renewable energy technologies, rising international oil prices and an increased demand for power. The report explores key issues in each of the sub-sectors, the potential for renewable energies, and gives an overview of the legal and institutional frameworks for the sector. Despite t]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 04:34:23 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Resource Needs for Addressing Noncommunicable Disease in Low- and Middle-Income Countries]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Low and middle income countries are faced with a range of challenges related to providing efficient and affordable health care. With non-communicable diseases (NCD) on the rise, there is a growing need to be able to estimate resource requirements, costs and expected impact associated with various investment strategies related to prevention and control of NCD. In this article, recently developed costing and health impact models for non-communicable disease are reviewed, with a view to drawing out]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 04:31:56 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Green China : Chinese insights on environment and development]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[China has been criticised, even vilified, for failing to support international protocols, such as Kyoto despite the environmental consequences of its rapid industrial expansion: the air in many of China's larger cities is the most polluted in the world, the water in many major rivers is unfit even for irrigation, and soil in key agricultural regions is contaminated by heavy metals. Arable land, water resources and biodiversity are being lost and the country's carbon and nitrous oxide emissions a]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 04:24:38 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Socioeconomic Implications of Tobacco Use in Ghana]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Country-level evidence from Africa on the prevalence of tobacco use and the role played by both demographic and socioeconomic factors, as influences on the use of tobacco products, is sparse. This paper analyzes the determinants of tobacco use in Ghana and explores the association between tobacco use and poverty in the country.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 04:24:26 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Developing an Indicator-Based Approach to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Urban Regeneration for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation]]></title>
    <link>http://zunia.org/post/developing-an-indicator-based-approach-to-evaluate-the-effectiveness-of-urban-regeneration-for-clima/</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Urban regeneration policy and practices can be an opportunity to take actions to make cities more climate-friendly and less vulnerable. Considering this assumption, this research aims to evaluate the role of urban regeneration in developing climate resilient and low-carbon urban environments. The paper comprises four major sections. In the first section, the conceptual framework of the research is explained through a discussion on the linkages between urban development (with a special emphasis o]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 04:18:12 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Social determinants of health and well-being among young people : Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study]]></title>
    <link>http://zunia.org/post/social-determinants-of-health-and-well-being-among-young-people-health-behaviour-in-school-aged-ch/</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Through this international report on the results of its most recent survey, the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study supplies the up-to-date information needed by policy-makers at various levels of government, nongovernmental organizations, and professionals in sectors such as health, education, social services, justice and recreation.The latest addition to a series of HBSC reports on young people’s health, this report presents findings from the 2009/2010 survey on the demograph]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 04:14:52 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Tobacco Use in Canada: 2012 edition]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The 2012 edition of Tobacco Use in Canada: Patterns and Trends updates the previous (2011) edition with estimates from the CTUMS annual 2010 dataset. For the first time, the report includes a supplement outlining key tobacco control policy developments in Canada, at both the federal and provincial levels over the past decade. This paper provides “big picture” overview that will give the tobacco control community ready‐access data and important trend information to help us deal with tobacco’s cor]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 04:10:31 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Noncommunicable diseases prevention and control in the South-eastern Europe Health Network]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The greatest burden of disease, at both the global and the European levels, is attributable to noncommunicable diseases. Health-promotion and disease-prevention activities aimed at reducing this burden need to involve non-health sectors and actors. This publication provides an overview of the existing tools for implementing such intersectoral action and highlights the developments in the fields of tobacco and nutrition in south-eastern Europe.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 03:59:28 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Policy Elements to Upscale the Contribution of Urban Transit Initiatives on Sustainable Urban Transport]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Promoting public transport use is one of the entry points towards sustainable urban transport, on the condition that the public transport system is planned and developed in a sustainable manner. This study develops a conceptual framework, based on a critical review of transit policy elements, to ensure sustainable urban transit projects. The framework is applied to review the progress of bus improvement initiatives in Indonesia, by looking at four cities as case studies. The analysis suggests th]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 03:58:27 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Transport Outlook 2012 : Seamless Transport for Greener Growth]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The mobility projections in this Transport Outlook indicate that global passenger transport volumes in 2050 could be up to 2.5 times as large as in 2010, and freight volumes could grow by a factor of four. Emissions of CO2 grow more slowly because of increasing energy efficiency, but may nevertheless more than double.The projected evolution of mobility depends on income and population growth, and on urbanization. The relation between framework conditions and mobility is uncertain and not immutab]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 03:54:19 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Climate Change Adaptation and Vulnerability Assessment of Water Resources Systems in Developing Countries]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Water is the primary medium through which climate change influences the Earth’s ecosystems and therefore people’s livelihoods and wellbeing. In this study, the authors review the evolution of approaches to vulnerability assessment related to water resources. From the current practices, the authors identify research gaps, and approaches to overcome these gaps a generalized assessment framework is developed. A feasibility study is then presented in the context of the Lower Brahmaputra River Basin ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 03:49:44 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Key Transport Statistics 2012]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Based on the International Transport Forum’s (ITF) quarterly transport database this leaflet is published each year in May. It provides the reader with preliminary 2011 data for more than a dozen selected transport indicators as well as total import and export values for ITF member countries. It also presents graphs and a short analysis of the transport activity in the global economic context highlighting the main changes over the previous year.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 03:47:44 -0400</pubDate>
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