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  People
  
  Population 2.01 mln
  
  Population growth 1%
  
  Life expectancy 43 years
  
  Net migration -36,000
  
  Economy
  
  GDP $1.6 bln
  
  - per capita $798
  
  - growth rate 5%
  
  FDI, net inflows $0.13 bln
  
  Infrastructure
  
  Cellphone users 23%
  
  Internet users 3%
  
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The Internet raised hopes that knowledge might become more accessible, reaching less affluent groups, as well as those farther away from the producers and sources of information. These early expectations remain largely unrealised. Knowledge institutions, including producers and distributors, around the world remain concentrated.“Who controls Wikipedia entries?” The good old times when anyone could intervene and share knowledge on this medium are long gone. Nowadays Wikipedia is based on a more...

Added by Zunia on January 24, 2012

Policy Brief: Corporate Governance for Banks in Southeast Europe

gcgf.org –

The recent financial crisis has presented an opportunity to reexamine corporate governance practices in banks and other financial institutions, and to learn from past mistakes. Banks in Southeast Europe (SEE), whose governance is seen as an important aspect of their successful integration into the European Union and the global family of banks, have also come under scrutiny. The Policy Brief aims to help apply international best practice to the specific circumstances and needs of SEE region.

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Alexey Volynets on January 27, 2012

Spatial knowledge management tools in urban development

hal.archives-ouvertes.fr –

The emergence and growth of urban areas can be seen as the consequence of a nodal development of many different processes, actors and organizations, and flows of goods, services and knowledge. Simultaneously, urban areas are places, which provide their residents with a certain quality of life in terms of housing, services, employment and consumption. This complexity makes spatial knowledge and exchange of knowledge in various forms an essential process in urban areas in order to move towards more...

Added by Zunia on January 24, 2012

New NATO LibGuide on 'Science and Technology to Combat Terrorism'

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Which are NATO’s key defences against bioterrorism threats? Take a look at the new NATO LibGuide on "Science & Technology to Combat Terrorism"!The full list of NATO LibGuides: at http://natolibguides.info

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Isabel Fernandez on January 27, 2012

Long-term fiscal sustainability in major economies

bis.org –

As the world economy slowly recovers from the very deep and widespread recession of recent years, many countries confront very serious fiscal imbalances.Most of the discussion in this paper will be about the measurement of fiscal imbalances and the size of necessary adjustments, rather than about the strength of fiscal institutions in different countries. The author will, however, comment on a variety of approaches that have been attempted and are currently being discussed for facilitating more...

Added by Zunia on January 26, 2012

Communicating research for evidence-based policymaking

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Evidence-based policymaking depends, first of all, on the existence and availability of reliable evidence. No less importantly, it requires that researchers and policymakers communicate with each other effectively. Without fresh, reliable evidence to base their decisions on, policymakers have only tradition and ideology to guide them. European Union policymakers have recognized that a massive research effort is required to accurately assess the bloc’s problems and propose coherent strategies more...

Added by Zunia on January 24, 2012

UNICEF warns on high rates of malnutrition among children in Yemen

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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that half a million children in Yemen could die or suffer physical and mental damage as a result of malnutrition, unless sufficient resources are made available to alleviate the effects of conflict, chronic poverty and drought.“Malnutrition is preventable… therefore, inaction is unconscionable,” Maria Calivis, UNICEF’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said in a statement yesterday after a two-day visit to more...

Added by Zunia on January 26, 2012

Making the EU's Common Agricultural Policy coherent with development goals

odi.org.uk –

This ODI Briefing Paper calls for a fresh look at the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy alongside development goals and the new global context.

Added by Zunia on September 04, 2011

The Economist: Which MBA

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Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business takes first place in The Economist's latest ranking of full-time MBA programmesFull rankingMethodologyPoll: Should rankings be taken seriously? more...

Added by Zunia on October 20, 2011

DermaVeratrol

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DermaVeratrol is a perfect anti aging solution for all those women who have been meekly fighting off signs of aging lurking on their skin. This anti aging formula contains moisturizing peptides that help soothe the dryness and fill in fine lines and wrinkles making you appear young and beautiful again.

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Donna young on January 27, 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.

Added by Zunia on January 19, 2012

Tax haven secrecy - Keeping the poor poor

christianaid.org.uk –

`There’s a building in the Cayman Islands that houses supposedly 12,000 US corporations. That’s either the biggest building in the world or the biggest tax scam in the world.’ - Barack Obama, US PresidentUS$160bn every year is the amount of revenue being denied to developing countries by unscrupulous multinational corporations that use tax haven secrecy to dodge taxes. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) – a body that brings together the world’s wealthiest nations more...

Added by Zunia on January 24, 2012

Social impact through satellite remote sensing – visualizing acute and chronic crises beyond the visible spectrum

unglobalpulse.org –

Many successful remote sensing projects have focused exclusively on the visible spectrum - what one would see of they looked down from an airplane at the ground surface. Yet in order to discern objects or patterns of interest (buildings, markets, roads, vehicles, etc.), high spatial resolution remote sensing data are necessary. After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, volunteers used released GeoEye imagery to digitize roads into OpenStreetMap. High resolution imagery was key to assessing the situation more...

Added by Zunia on January 19, 2012

One Laptop per Child (OLPC): A reality check with Satish Jha

In this interview, Mr. Satish Jha, founder and chairman of OLPC India Foundation discusses some of the hotly debated questions and controversies surrounding the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project – a foremost dream project of the ICT4D sector and the development sector as a whole. Zunia: It’s 2012, and the XO laptop still costs $199 - so far not down to the original $100 goal of the OLPC’s initiators. Since January 1995 when the OLPC was officially formed, the cost of technology has gone down more...

Added by Zunia on January 10, 2012

Global Employment Trends 2012: Preventing a deeper jobs crisis

ilo.org –

The annual Global Employment Trends report offers the latest global and regional information and projections on several indicators of the labour market, including employment, unemployment, working poverty and vulnerable employment. It also presents a number of policy considerations in light of the new challenges facing policy makers in the coming year.

Added by Zunia on January 26, 2012

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