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		<title>Growth for Low-Income Countries?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 18:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even the most optimistic analyses accept that many low-income countries (LICs) will remain low income for some time to come. Consequently, when assessing the policy options available to LICs, it is important to take a long-term view. In the WIDER Working Paper “Aid, Fiscal Policy, Climate Change, and Growth”, David Bevan highlights some important considerations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Adult Literacy Learning Sustainable in Rural Communities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 15:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former UNU Institute for Sustainability and Peace researcher Sarah Hasaba looked at adult literacy learning programmes provided by government and local, national and international organizations operating within rural communities in Uganda, Kenya and Vietnam. The aim was to map out alternative approaches to help ensure these opportunities are sustainable for adult learners in their communities, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Aid, or Not to Aid? The Case of Rwanda</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What should donors do when confronted with regimes that violate important normative standards of state behavior and commit human rights abuses, war crimes or other grave ethical transgressions?  During the cold war, instrumental use of aid to support strategic foreign policy objectives provoked little controversy if it supported allies whose behaviour affronted morally. Today, however, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assessing and Improving China’s E-waste Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Waste not want not. Unfortunately, this old adage has been overshadowed by a growing torrent of global demand for the latest and greatest consumer gadgets. Rapid technological advances, expanding product lines and planned obsolescence are pressuring consumers to opt for “out with the not-so-old and in with the new”. So what happens to the growing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gross Domestic Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lorenzo Fioramonti is a political scientist and specialist on governance issues who teaches at the University of Pretoria, where he directs the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation. His work on global and supranational governance with a focus on regional integration brought him to the attention of the United Nations University Institute on Comparative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aid, Poverty and the Working Poor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 01:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most pressing goals of development aid is the alleviation of poverty. In the UNU-WIDER Working Paper &#8220;Aid, Growth, and Jobs&#8220;, Gary Fields suggests that one key way in which poverty reduction can be achieved is by helping the poor to earn more in the labour market. He argues that this method of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainable Development Goals and Our Fascination with Mega-targets</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gender and Transitional Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the recent uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, women were at the forefront of the protests. However, once the struggle was over, women were generally expected to return to their normal roles. Very few were present at the negotiations about new political orders, and it now seems likely that women will make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Skolt Sámi’s Path to Climate Change Resilience</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 02:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This photo essay by the UNU Institute of Advanced Studies&#8217; Traditional Knowledge Initiative (TKI) Research Fellow Gleb Raygorodetsky offers a glimpse of the challenges that climate change presents for indigenous and local communities in northern Europe. An Arctic people of northern Finland whose livelihoods depend largely on their environment, the Skolt Sámi are searching for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rebuilding Democracy after Japan&#8217;s &#8220;Triple Disasters&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 02:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years after the earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands and triggered a nuclear meltdown, it is intriguing to observe how the &#8220;triple disasters&#8221; might have reinvigorated civic participation and activism in an otherwise politically apathetic society. What does this mean for the future of Japanese democracy? • ♦ • Two years after Japan’s &#8220;triple [...]]]></description>
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