World Development Indicators 2001
The book contains new tables on social indicators of poverty and global environmental issues. This year's edition retains the basic thematic presentation with six sections covering worldview, people, ...
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Poverty, Economic Indexes, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
Human capital convergence: International evidence
In the growth literature, evidence on income convergence is mixed. In the development literature, health and education indicators are also often used. This study examines whether health and education ...
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Education, Investments, Health Status Indicators, Measuring, Methods and Indicators, Equity, Living Conditions
Analyzing inequality - Resources and changes: exploitation and discrimination
Inequality is a theme that has been endlessly explored in areas from the Bible to modern-day economic analysis. But are we any closers to understanding the nature of inequality? This paper, provides a...
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Equity, Equity, Living Conditions
Diez falacias sobre los problemas sociales de América Latina
El análisis se basa en amplia data estadística reciente sobre la situación social de América Latina, y en "el estado del arte" a nivel internacional en la discusión sobre el desarrollo. La últim...
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23927, Economic Development, Statistical Data, Measuring, Methods and Indicators, Equity, Living Conditions
Health services under the General Agreement on Trade in Services
The present paper provides an overview of the basic structure of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and of the patterns of current commitments in health services and of limitations freq...
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Health Services, Health Policy, cemmerce, icesrvicesrvicesrvicesrvices, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
Under the Weather: Climate, Ecosystems, and Infectious Disease
Climate changes can clearly influence many infectious diseases, but it is not yet possible to determine whether global warming will cause diseases to spread. Although some studies have linked higher i...
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Communicable Diseases, Health Equity, Equity, Living Conditions
Critical choices: The United Nations, networks, and the future of global governance
Critical Choices outlines promising ways of how global public policy networks can help to meet the governance challenges of the 21st century and equips policymakers with a practical toolbox to manage ...
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Public Policy, Decision Making, Globalization, Advocacy
Ethics and human subjects research: US and international issues
This course will introduce students to ethical principles and formal codes of ethics, to key ethical issues that arise in international research and US and ultimately will be cased-based to enable stu...
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Research, Ethics, Advocacy
Fulbright New Century Scholars Program
The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs in the U.S. Department of State and the Council for International Exchange of Scholars are pleased to announce the launching of the Fulbright New Century...
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Fellowships and Scholarships, Workforce, Advocacy, Sistemas de financiamiento y de gestión de la investigación, Apoio a pesquisa - internacional
The Changing boundaries of citizenship: A review and a research agenda
The numerous political movements speaking in the name of "citizens" and demanding recognition and access to political influence are one reason the notion of "citizenship" is once more in vogue. Just a...
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Human Rights, Participatory Planning, Civil Rights, Advocacy
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