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  Population 61.71 mln
  
  Population growth 1%
  
  Life expectancy 81 years
  
  Net migration 721,750
  
  Economy
  
  GDP $2589.84 bln
  
  - per capita $41,970
  
  - growth rate 2%
  
  FDI, net inflows $159.46 bln
  
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  Cellphone users 90%
  
  Internet users 51%
  
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Patience and Care: Rebuilding nursing and midwifery in Somaliland

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Somaliland's maternal, infant, and child mortality rates are among the highest in the world. A rudimentary health system already beset by under-investment and neglect collapsed completely during the final years of a civil war which ended in 1991. Hospitals and clinics were looted or destroyed. Health professionals fled to refugee camps or overseas. In 2001, when Somaliland held a referendum which approved the adoption of a new constitution and confirmed the country’s independence from Somalia, more...

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Moushumi Biswas on February 20, 2012

Growing out of poverty

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In developing countries, focusing on smallholder agriculture is the most productive way to improve rural economies, provide long-term stable nutrition, help women in society and provide the means to educate the next generation, a new report from the UK Parliament has concluded. "By turning subsistence agriculture into a vibrant, profitable and sustainable rural sector, countries can make progress towards virtually all the Millennium Development Goals," says Lord Cameron in the foreword. more...

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Moushumi Biswas on February 20, 2012

Opportunities, Challenges and Good Practices in International Research Cooperation between Developed and Developing Countries

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The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Global Forum on Development has recently published a report looking at international research collaboration.Opportunities, Challenges and Good Practices in International Research Cooperation' (PDF 3601KB) looks at examples of good practice in research collaborations between developing and industrialised countries.The report was written due to the growing policy-level discussions both nationally and internationally of global more...

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John Daly on February 09, 2012

Complexity Science and International Development Report

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This report assesses the relevance and applications of 'complexity science' - a term that encompasses inter-relationships between different disciplines and objectives in international development projects. It provides a definition, gives examples of actual and potential applications, and identifies future possibilities and challenges.The report focuses on how to apply the methodologies of complexity science - such as nonlinear dynamics, stochastic processes, agent-based models and machine more...

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D C on October 23, 2011

Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for Capacity Strengthening in Health Research

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ESSENCE (Enhancing Support for Strengthening the Effectiveness of National Capacity Efforts) is an initiative between funding agencies to scale up coordination and harmonization of the research capacity investments. The group of funders has produced a framework for planning, monitoring and evaluating health research capacity strengthening activities. This is the first in a series of good practice documents that will incorporate knowledge and good practice on health research and development more...

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Moushumi Biswas on March 03, 2011

Science and Innovation for Development

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Scientific education, knowledge and research are crucial to solving development challenges. Science as a tool for providing evidence and discovering solutions has been neglected recently by many key decision makers, Science and Innovation for Development aims to play a part in changing that.

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D C on June 29, 2011

Engineering: Issues, challenges and opportunities for development

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Based on contributions by more than 120 experts around the world, the Report is intended as a platform for better understanding of engineering. It identifies more than 50 fields of engineering and looks at engineering around the world, giving regional and country perspectives. Focused on engineering’s contributions to sustainable human, social and economic development, it discusses issues, applications and innovation, infrastructure, capacity-building and education, illustrated through case more...

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Moushumi Biswas on November 08, 2010

Global Food and Farming Futures

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The Foresight project Global Food and Farming Futures explores the increasing pressures on the global food system between now and 2050. The Report highlights the decisions that policy makers need to take today, and in the years ahead, to ensure that a global population rising to nine billion or more can be fed sustainably and equitably.

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Moushumi Biswas on January 30, 2011

Banking on biodiversity

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The book shows how nature provides humanity with goods and services worth trillions of dollars. But it warns that these benefits are threatened by policies that fail to treat the environment and human wellbeing as two sides of the same coin.

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Moushumi Biswas on January 30, 2011

Knowledge, Networks and Nations: Global Scientific Collaboration in the 21st Century

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Knowledge, Networks and Nations, in co-operation with Elsevier, will offer a snapshot of where science is happening around the world in 2011, by whom it is being conducted, and the crucial role that international collaboration plays in strengthening the breadth and quality of research. It will also discuss the implications of these developments for addressing ‘global challenges’ such as climate change, food security and infectious diseases. The report will make high level, broad recommendations more...

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Moushumi Biswas on April 03, 2011

Building a collaborative platform for climate change: an action research approach

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This case study looks at an 'action research approach' to building a collaborative research platform for climate change in Bangladesh. It describess how scientists, policy makers and international development agencies working on different aspects of climate change adaptation could more effectively collaborate to enhance the contribution of research to addressing Bangladesh’s adaptation challenges. It presents the project as a pilot, with potential replicability in other developing countries or more...

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Moushumi Biswas on August 04, 2010

Universities and development: global cooperation

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This briefing originates from a seminar organized by the Universities UK International and European Policy Committee in February 2009 to discuss universities and international development. It considers the scope of international development and the policy landscape, and provides background information on development policies, initiatives and activities at an international, European and UK level.

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Moushumi Biswas on November 30, 2010

Health is Global: an outcomes framework for global health 2011-15

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This report will focus the UK Government’s efforts to drive forward the global health agenda by 2015. It defines twelve global health outcomes in three overarching areas for action: global health security, international development and trade.The outcomes framework builds on the very well received cross Government strategy for global health, Health is Global - a UK Government strategy 2008-2013. The strategy aimed to set out how government departments should work together coherently to improve more...

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Moushumi Biswas on April 03, 2011

The top 100 questions of importance to the future of global agriculture

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These are three of the 100 top agricultural questions compiled by experts and representative of major agricultural organizations worldwide.Divided into four categories: natural resource inputs; agronomic practice; agricultural development; and markets and consumption, the questions aim to stimulate debate and prompt answers to the challenge of food security and the need to produce 70–100 per cent more food to feed the world's growing population.The open access paper aims to guide policy makers more...

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Moushumi Biswas on January 23, 2011

Helping Africa to Feed Itself: Promoting Agriculture to Reduce Poverty and Hunger

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Food production is not the chief cause of hunger on the African continent, argue the authors of this report.They base their findings on interviews, statistical analysis and Africa’s food security record to show that poverty, not slow growth in food production, is the primary cause for nearly one-third of Africans being hungry and a quarter of infants being underweight.

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Moushumi Biswas on October 20, 2010

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