Archive for June, 2006
links for 2006-06-29
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Secrets of “the ’stans,” lands of raw beauty and uninspiring governments, revealed with help from a Kyrgyz novelist and an expert on militant Islam.(tags: Central_Asia)
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(tags: Literature)
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Know When to Buy – Airfare Predictions: We help you decide if you should buy now or wait.(tags: Travel)
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It’s been suggested to us that we post ten simple switches you can make from Red to Blue. With the emphasis on “simple” or “easy,” a lot of categories are left out. It’s not easy to find Blue gas stations - Amerada Hess and Citgo are not everywhere. And y(tags: Leftism)
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Sacred sites are the most loved and visited places on planet earth. Since prehistoric times they have exerted a mysterious attraction on billions of pilgrims from every region and religion. These holy places have the power to heal the body, enlighten the(tags: Religion)
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Using information the government has collected on noise levels within London, a map has
been plotted of the capitals most silent spaces. The map intends to reveal a hidden
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Hedonists, rejoice! A couple of Columbia University researchers have found that in the long run, people tend to regret having missed out on opportunities for pleasure — and they wish they hadn’t been so diligent about working. What’s more, our attitudes(tags: Psychology)
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(tags: Photography Meteorology)
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A Moore’s law for razor blades?(tags: Fashion)
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Will Shortz’s crosswords are about to make him a word-nerd movie star. But Sudoku is making him rich.(tags: People)
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The appointment of the notoriously repressive judge Saeed Mortazavi to the United Nations’s new Human Rights Council is an international scandal, says Nasrin Alavi.(tags: Iran)
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New graduates of elite MBA programs flock to Wall Street during bull markets and start
their careers elsewhere when the stock market is weak. Given the transferability of MBA skills,
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The standard neo-classical model of wage setting predicts short-term effects of temporary labor
market shocks on careers and low costs of recessions for both more and less advantaged workers. In
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The e-Parliament is the first world institution whose members are elected by the people. It links democratic members of parliament and congress into a global forum, combining meetings and electronic communication. Organizations, companies, journalists and(tags: Democracy)
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Everyday, when Tehran wakes up.(tags: Iran)
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The European Coffee Resource
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Benjamin Disraeli and the politics of performance.(tags: UK Leadership_Studies)
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While dieters are accustomed to exercises of will, a new English translation of Germany’s most popular diet book takes the concept to a new philosophical level. The Nietzschean diet, which commands its adherents to eat superhuman amounts of whatever they(tags: Gastronomy)
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(tags: Musicians)
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What goes into the luggage of some of the world’s most peripatetic travelers?(tags: Travel)
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A fascination with bookshops leads Sarah Anderson to this invigorating city to start her promotional tour in search of the best way to explore a country - through the literature it inspired.(tags: Thailand)
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Elizabeth Gould overturned one of the central tenets of neuroscience. Now she’s building on her discovery to show that poverty and stress may not just be symptoms of society, but bound to our anatomy.(tags: Psychology)
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Below is a ranking of the most courteous to the least courteous — 35 major cities included in RD’s Global Courtesy Test. Figures reflect the percentage of people who passed in each city. When multiple cities had identical scores, they are listed in alpha(tags: Cities)
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Most travel magazines focus on destinations, offering tips on where to go, where to stay, what to do. We started World Hum in May 2001 because we wanted to focus not on destinations but on the journey, on travel in the broadest sense of the word.(tags: Travel)
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Inside Beijing’s global campaign to make Chinese the number one language in the world.
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Welcome to Marjorie Chan’s ChinaLinks at The Ohio State University! Online since 24 April 1996, we have, as of 12 May 2004, moved to the current site, ChinaLinks.osu.edu! When time permits, this site will be restructured, but for now, the structure from t
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The genre of “strategic studies”—the name given by jihadi ideologues to their books and articles on the strengths and weakness of the jihadi movement and those of its enemies—had, until recently, been neglected by Western governments and analysts(tags: Security)
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Every evening, as many as 40,000 children in northern Uganda hike for miles from their rural villages to shelters in town. These so-called night commuters are hiding from the Lord’s Resistance Army, a radical, religious paramilitary group that seeks to
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(tags: Middle_East Institutions)
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The U.S. Global Leadership Campaign is a broad-based coalition of nearly 400 businesses and organizations representing millions of Americans whose mission is to ensure continued global engagement and a robust U.S. International Affairs Budget.(tags: Lobbying Foreign_Policy)
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Andrew Sullivan on the harrowing new book “Oath Betrayed”, in which a medical ethicist documents how members of his profession got caught up in the abuse of prisoners.(tags: Human_Rights)
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The New Democrat Network wants to harness an “efficient market for progressive politics” to launch a new kind of political venture. But could progressive politics prevail in such a market?(tags: Leftism)
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If you want to know how the conservative message machine was built and what progressives can do to respond, just ask Rob Stein.(tags: Right_Wing)
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Conservatives begin to infiltrate the left’s last redoubt.(tags: Higher_Education Right_Wing)
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Info for over 2000 places in the UK covering Hook-up Spots, Skateboard Shops, Skateboard Spots, Record Shops, Musical Instrument Shops, Clothes Shops, Clubs (Dance Music), Music Venues, Cinemas, Arts Crafts & Head Shops, Games Shops, Bike Shops, Magazine(tags: UK)
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ChangeThis is creating a new kind of media. A form of media that uses existing tools (like PDFs, blogs and the web) to challenge the way ideas are created and spread.(tags: Ideas)
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Chicago Professionals for Youth (CPY) supports non-profit organizations throughout Chicago working with underprivileged youth. CPY makes direct contributions and outreach support to organizations and initiatives which service children and youth in the fol
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Jobs For Youth/Chicago helps young men and women from low-income families become a part of the economic mainstream; and, in the process, provides the business community with motivated job-ready workers. Jobs For Youth is a free program for teens and young(tags: Inequality Illinois)
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Urban Students Empowered Foundation (USEF) seeks to provide urban students with the resources and support to make higher education a real possibility.
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We examined the effect of an image of a pair of eyes on contributions to an honesty box used to collect money for drinks in a university coffee room. People paid nearly three times as much for their drinks when eyes were displayed rather than a control im(tags: Psychology)
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I have always liked Star Trek. I watched the original show in the 60’s, waited eagerly for the first movie in the 70’s, and then later in the 80’s got hooked all over again on Star Trek: The Next Generation. It has been good television, good science ficti(tags: Star_Trek)
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As older Seattle churches struggle to stay afloat, new churches are attracting urban hipsters with club-like venues, punk rock, and joke-filled sermons—and a social agenda that would make Jerry Falwell proud.(tags: PNW_Politics Christianity)
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It was all such fun until we realized that no business really uses game theory.(tags: Macroeconomics)
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Standpedia is wiki-style encyclopedia of controversy. It’s a place where tough questions are answered from a variety of perspectives, instead of a single ‘neutral point of view’. Standpedia users work together to build maps of controversial issues that e(tags: Ideas)
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60 years ago a Kiev’s area witnessed some of the most severe battles of WW2. Covered with earth from explosions the humans, arms and ammunitions were left on the battlefields. With entering this site, you will join me and my friends for visiting a histo(tags: Ukraine)
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On this website you can follow the debate that followed the paper presenting the Simulation argument. The original paper is here, as are popular synopses, and scholarly papers commenting on the first paper, and a reply to these comments.(tags: Philosophy)
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The page is scaled so that the smallest thing on it, the electron, is one pixel. That makes the proton, this big ball right next to us, a thousand pixels across, and the distance between them is… yep, fifty million pixels (not a hundred million, because(tags: Physics)
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The best comments ever seen on Slashdot.(tags: Communication)
links for 2006-06-28
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Since his election last year, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has become the public face of the Islamic Republic’s growing conservatism. But he’s not the only policymaker in the country. Around him, a sometimes fractious collection of leaders is(tags: Iran)
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Moscow surpasses Tokyo as priciest metropolis. Asuncion, on the other hand, is still a big bargain.(tags: Cities)
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Diggtrends is not a “digg clone” but it complements digg.com. Our main goal is to provide more insight of what & how we are digging.(tags: Research)
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You probably use Google everyday, but do you know… the Google Snake Game? Googledromes? Memecodes? Googlesport? The Google Calculator? Googlepark and Google Weddings? Google hacking, fighting and rhyming? In this book, you’ll find Google-related games(tags: Search)
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Librarians’ Internet Index (LII) is a publicly-funded website and weekly newsletter serving California, Washington state, the nation, and the world.(tags: Research)
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CREATE Foundation has been building philanthropy in Northeast Mississippi through its work with donors, nonprofits, and communities for more than 32 years, and possesses a distinguished history of highly effective community engagement. Within Northeast M(tags: Mississippi)
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Welcome to the Energizing Entrepreneurs website – home of the RUPRI Center for Rural Entrepreneurship and companion site for our book, Energizing Entrepreneurs: Charting a Course for Rural Communities, created in partnership with the Heartland Center fo(tags: Social_Entrepreneurship)
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The Government Innovators Network is a marketplace of ideas and examples of government innovation for policy makers, policy advisors, and practitioners. Through our content – news, documents, descriptions of award-winning innovative programs, and events(tags: Social_Entrepreneurship)
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The Roy and Lila Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation fosters excellence in government around the world in order to generate and strengthen democracy. Through its research, publications, curriculum support, global network, and awards pro(tags: Democracy)
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Since the mutual community problems of employment, education, health, housing, and transportation prevail throughout Northeast Mississippi, the Institute promotes area cooperation through a network of problem-solving activities. It sponsors seminars, symp(tags: Mississippi)
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How faith and a newspaper transformed a Mississippi community.(tags: Mississippi)
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BetterTogether is an initiative of the Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America at Harvard University. The Saguaro Seminar issued the report Better Together, in December of 2000, calling for a nationwide campaign to redirect a downward spiral of civic(tags: Social_Capital)
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The Saguaro Seminar strives to develop a handful of far-reaching, actionable ideas to significantly increase Americans’ connectedness to one another and to community institutions. The Saguaro Seminar is explicitly neither developing a civic engagement blu(tags: Civic_Engagement Social_Capital)
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World Education contributes to individual growth, strengthens the capacity of local partner institutions, catalyzes community and national development. World Education’s approach is characterized by a commitment to meaningful and equal partnership that is(tags: Education)
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An emotional debate about those untouched by the economic recovery.(tags: Japan)
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Process mapping is a workflow diagram to bring forth a clearer understanding of a process or series of parallel processes.(tags: Leadership_Studies)
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This topic in the Library provides comprehensive advice and materials for anyone who is considering starting a nonprofit organization. The reader can use the free information in this Library topic, along with other Library topics that are referenced later(tags: NGO)
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links for 2006-06-27
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Eldar left his native Kyrgystan for the United States in 1998, a boy of 11 with a slight grasp of English but an astonishing natural talent that immediately captured the attention of the jazz world. In the last seven years, with the support of his family,(tags: Musicians)
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Asharq Al-Awsat is the world’s premier pan-Arab daily newspaper, Printed simultaneously on four continents in 12 cities. Launched in London in 1978, Asharq Al-Awsat has established itself as the decisive publication on pan- Arab and international affairs,(tags: Media:Middle_East)
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A few places in Greater Boston and New York with a good reputation and an espresso focus.
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Welcome to the University of Mauritius. Your time at university will be one of the most exciting experiences of your life - a unique opportunity for in-depth studies into subjects that interest you and a chance to acquire knowledge and skills that are val(tags: Mauritius Universities:Foreign)
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The Government Web Portal is a one-stop-shop providing comprehensive information and delivering integrated services round-the-clock. It is made up of four sub-portals, namely, Citizen, Government, Non-citizen and Business.(tags: Mauritius)
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(tags: Jamaica Media:Caribbean)
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(tags: Yemen Media:Middle_East)
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MapAction specialises in the mapping of disaster areas and supplying geographical information for humanitarian relief operations. Using the latest geographical information system (GIS) technology we aim to produce instant, real-time maps of a disaster -(tags: Relief Asset_Mapping)
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(tags: Haiti Media:Caribbean)
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Prague Watchdog is an on-line service that collects and disseminates information on the conflict in Chechnya, focusing on human rights, humanitarian aid conditions, media access and coverage, and the local political situation.(tags: Chechnya)
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(tags: Media:Middle_East Morocco)
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ABC Asia Pacific is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s free to air international satellite television and online service, offering a rich and diverse range of information and general programming. ABC Asia Pacific is currently available in 10.2 mi(tags: Media:East_Asia Australia)
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BakuToday.Net is the Caucasus’ award-winning worldwide news site, providing readers in Azerbaijan and outside of the country with breaking Azerbaijan and Eurasia news coverage, as well as world, sports, entertainment and technology news.(tags: Azerbaijan Media:Central_Asia)
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The AGI exists to represent the interests of the UK’s geographic information (GI) industry; a wide-ranging group of public and private sector organisations, suppliers of GI software, hardware, data and services, consultants, academics and interested indiv(tags: Geography)
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The Czech News Agency (CTK) is the Czech national news and information agency trusted with providing objective and complex information for the free formation of opinions. The service is provided to other media, companies and individuals.(tags: Czech_Republic Media:Europe)
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The mission of Colombia Journal is to promote political, social and economic justice in Colombia by creating a greater awareness and understanding of U.S. foreign policy. To this end, Colombia Journal provides editorial analysis and investigative reports(tags: Colombia)
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The objectives of the ACS are enshrined in the Convention and are based on the following: the strengthening of the regional co-operation and integration process, with a view to creating an enhanced economic space in the region; preserving the environmenta(tags: Caribbean)
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Studies Without Borders is a non-profit organization. It was founded by a group of French students in 2003 in order to help their counterparts from war-torn societies come and study in western universities.(tags: NGO Higher_Education)
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The eXile is a Moscow, Russia-based English-language bi-weekly newspaper that was launched in 1997 by American journalist Mark Ames. He was joined soon after by Matt Taibbi. The newspaper quickly gained fame and notoriety, including a 4-page spread in Rol(tags: Russia Media:Europe)
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The aim of the FIDH is to obtain effective improvements in the protection of victims, the prevention of Human Rights abuse and the prosecution of those responsible.(tags: Human_Rights)
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The Chechnya Advocacy Network is a volunteer organization with a horizontal structure based on network groups and partner organizations in locations all over the US (see Our Structure). We are non-denominational, non-partisan and as an organization do not(tags: Chechnya)
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The Chechnya Justice Project is a groundbreaking initiative that utilizes domestic and international legal mechanisms to seek redress for ongoing human rights violations in Chechnya.(tags: Chechnya)
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The Forum unites representatives of civil society whose activities are directed toward assisting in the peaceful regulation of the situation in the Chechen Republic. Due to a certain fragmentation of these local forces, it is essential to work with a wide(tags: Chechnya)
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The Caucasus Times Agency is an independent, free and objective source of news and information with special focus on human rights and the rule of law in Caucasus Region. Network of correspondents embraces all regions of Southern Russia (Chechnya, Ingushet
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Chechnya Weekly is the foundation’s special coverage of the crisis in the breakaway republic. Its mission is to inform policymakers, the media, and the public of developments in Chechnya, discuss the origins of the conflict and explore the possibilities f(tags: Chechnya)
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Wrangling with customer service representatives is an art form, but you can do it successfully with a little knowledge and a stubborn streak.(tags: Business)
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A small but highly efficient killing machine lurks in the mountains of Japan—the Japanese giant hornet. The voracious predator pumps out a dose of venom with an enzyme so strong it can dissolve human tissue. Just a handful of these hornets can kill 30,0
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Saudia Arabia loosens press shackles, but religion and politics are still perilous topics.(tags: Saudi_Arabia)
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The last half-century was the age of the megacity. The next will belong to their smaller, humbler urban relations.(tags: Cities)
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The Inter-American Foundation (IAF) is an independent agency of the United States government that provides grants to nongovernmental and community-based organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean for innovative, sustainable and participatory self-he(tags: Latin_America)
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LatinFocus is the first stop for professionals seeking reliable business research information on Latin American economies. Since its conception in 1998, the LatinFocus website has become one of the fastest growing and most essential economic and financi(tags: Latin_America)
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The Latin American Venture Capital Association (LAVCA) is a not-for-profit membership organization dedicated to promoting the growth of the private equity and venture capital industry in Latin America and the Caribbean.(tags: Economic_Development Latin_America)
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(tags: Media:Latin_America Argentina)
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In this paper I sketch some sociological arguments about corruption. Recent literature is dominated by economic treatments that focus on identifying structures of incentives that make corruption more likely, and on assessing the impact of corruption on ec(tags: Corruption)
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The University of Minnesota’s Thomas Holmes Movie of Wal-Mart Store Openings, illustrating each store opening in the United States from 1962 to 2004.(tags: Geography:American Macroeconomics)
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Keith Ferrazzi needs two PalmPilots to keep track of all his contacts, people like Bill Clinton and Michael Milken. But there’s far more to cracking the inner circle of the power elite than just taking names.(tags: Social_Networking)
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This summary guide will help anyone build relationships and motivate others. My reinterpretations of the ideas in the book have eliminated redundancies and only presented the main ideas so that modern readers can better retain the information. I’ve also(tags: Psychology Communication)
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Today, the White House released its long-overdue National Security Strategy (NSS). Like the National Strategy for Victory in Iraq before it, the NSS is a pure public relations stunt that has little basis in reality.(tags: Security)
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China’s revitalization shouldn’t be understood as returning to the time centuries back when China was the dominant power in East Asia. Chinese people can be proud of their revitalization process, but shouldn’t have sentiments of ‘historical nationalism’.(tags: China)
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There is an informal and anecdotal belief among Americans that if you dig a hole deep enough, eventually you would come out in China. This is theoretically possible if the hole is angled in the right way, but if you dig straight down and through the exact(tags: Geography)
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The Earth’s Leading Authority on Conveying Coffee by Bicycle–Since 1996(tags: Coffee)
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Welcome to MyPyramid.org! USDA hopes the updated food pyramid, MyPyramid, will help to ease much of the confusion that has come from so-called “doctors” and “scientists” claiming that their independent, repeatable experimentation has shown red meat, proce(tags: Health)
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Because David Horowitz’s Guide to the Left is Just About the Frozen Limits of Silly(tags: Right_Wing)
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Movie Trailer Spoof of V for Vendetta. What happens in a futuristic world where the consumption of cookies is controlled by the government?(tags: Movies Television)
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Uncommon Business is a blog about people who make money online selling unusual, strange and sometimes bizarre things or provide curious services. This isn’t “One Hundred And One Ideas For Your Homebased Business” – only real, working businesses wi(tags: Business)
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The Soviet cartoon I watched in Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
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The Soviet animation series that I watched in Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
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The Arabist is dedicated to covering the politics and culture of the Arab world. It is published and maintained by Issandr El Amrani, a Cairo-based journalist, with contributions from journalists and researchers working in the region.(tags: Middle_East)
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The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs is a 100-page magazine published 9 times per year in Washington, DC, that focuses on news and analysis from and about the Middle East and U.S. policy in that region.(tags: Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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Friends of Morocco is a organization of Americans, mostly returned Peace Corps volunteers, with experience in Morocco and Moroccans in America united with an interest in promoting educational, cultural, charitable, social, literary and scientific exchange(tags: Morocco)
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BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights takes a rights-based approach to the Palestinian refugee issue through research, advocacy and support of community participation in the search for durable solutions.(tags: Palestine)
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Arabs Against Discrimination is a non-governmental organization legally registered in France. AAD was established by a group of concerned Arabs with the aim of exposing and combating all forms of discrimination and racism which contravene human rights cov(tags: Civil_Rights Middle_East)
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The Arab Studies Journal is a peer-reviewed, independent, multi-disciplinary forum in the field of Arab and Middle Eastern studies. It is published by rising scholars affiliated with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University and t(tags: Middle_Eastern_Studies)
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AL JADID regularly publishes scores of reviews of the latest books on the Arab world and Arab America, across all scholastic disciplines. AL JADID’s book news and reviews extend also to books published in Arabic, as well as offering the latest overview of(tags: Media:Middle_East)
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The big hit in Kyrgyzstan in 2005.
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This video was played at the beginning of every bus trip leaving Mexico City.(tags: Mexico Spanish_Pop)
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The big hit in Mexico in 2005.(tags: Spanish_Pop)
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links for 2006-06-26
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Connecting experts to youth and youth to one another, worldwide.(tags: Education)
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This report describes the concepts and methods used to evaluate a regional capacity development project in Latin America, which aims to strengthen planning, monitoring, and evaluation in agricultural research organizations. The report outlines the procedu(tags: Monitoring Agriculture)
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This document, produced by the World Bank, presents checklists of key issues to consider in preparing an action plan for developing national/sectoral monitoring and evaluation capacities.(tags: Monitoring)
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The relationship between governance and development has risen up the international policy agenda. There is widespread agreement that governance matters - intrinsically and for improvements in economic and social outcomes. But what exactly is ‘good gove(tags: Donors)
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When working in relief and development projects, we often face situations others have encountered before us. Sometimes we ask around and consult a few colleagues for their opinions and advice. Other times we “jump in at the deep end” and do as best we can(tags: Relief)
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The Anguilla National Trust (ANT) Pelicans was established in 1993 to act as custodian of Anguilla’s heritage, preserving and promoting the island’s natural environment and its archaeological, historical and cultural resources for present and future gen(tags: Anguilla)
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The Ark offers to marginalized, abused, and victimized women, and children, a refuge of safety from where the individual may realize their own strength to face again the challenges of this world. The Ark strives to enable and empower individuals to live t(tags: Human_Rights Ghana)
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The Asian Business Coalition on AIDS (ABC on AIDS) is a regional partnership between companies that aim to prevent and control HIV/AIDS in the workplace and not-for-profit organizations that provide technical services on HIV/AIDS, such as training.
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The Basic Income Grant Coalition was formed in mid-2001 to develop a common platform among advocates of a universal income support grant and to mobilise popular support for the introduction of the grant.(tags: South_Africa)
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Supporting individuals and organizations in Armenia as they endeavor to construct the basic building blocks of democracy is the work of the Assembly’s NGO Training and Resource Center (NGOC). By serving vulnerable populations and advocating for citize
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The Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) was established in 1994 to protect and foster the rights to freedom of expression and access to information, and to oppose censorship. The Institute was formed from a merger of three organisations: The Campaign fo(tags: South_Africa)
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GEM is committed to social justice in the environmental sphere of society’s relations with and impact on the natural resource base.(tags: South_Africa Environmentalism)
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The AIDS Law Project (ALP) is at Wits University Centre for Applied Legal Studies. It is an organisation that specialises in helping people with HIV/AIDS to deal with these problems. We also research many of the difficult social, legal and human rights is
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Idasa is an independent public interest organisation committed to promoting sustainable democracy based on active citizenship, democratic institutions, and social justice. It is a registered Section 21 company in South Africa, has a functioning Board of D(tags: South_Africa)
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The Government Accountability Project (GAP) is a 28-year-old nonprofit public interest group that promotes government and corporate accountability by advancing occupational free speech, defending whistleblowers, and empowering citizen activists. We pursue(tags: Activism Corruption)
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IATP works with organizations around the world to analyze how global trade agreements impact domestic farm and food policies. Alongside a global coalition, IATP advocates for fair trade policies that promote strong health standards, labor and human rights(tags: Trade Agriculture)
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An independent network for the creation of a humane, just, sustainable
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One of the critical challenges facing Africa is how to harness the potential of internal and international migration in the interests of development. The Southern African Migration Project (SAMP) is an international network of organizations founded in 199(tags: South_Africa Population)
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Equal Access, an international not-for-profit organization, creates positive change for large numbers of people in the developing world by providing information and education through targeted content, cost-effective technology and community engagement. He(tags: Inequality)
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IMPACS, the Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society, is a Canadian charitable organization committed to the protection and expansion of democracy and to strengthening civil society. IMPACS believes that a strong democracy requires three key elements(tags: Political_Development)
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World Resources Institute (WRI) is an environmental think tank that goes beyond research to find practical ways to protect the earth and improve people’s lives.(tags: Capacity_Building)
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The Study Circles Resource Center is the primary project of The Paul J. Aicher Foundation, a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization. We help communities develop their own ability to solve problems by bringing lots of people together in dialogue acr(tags: Community)
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The RCPLA network is an alliance of seventeen different organisations from around the world, that strives to promote the empowerment of the disadvantaged through participation in their own development. The Network helps researchers and practitioners
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NABUUR.COM’s mission is to give communities in developing countries access to their global Neighbours via the Internet. And through these Neighbours to the huge reservoir of resources (knowledge, solutions, energy, creativity) that is available elsewher(tags: Service:International)
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ICLEI—Local Governments for Sustainability is an international association of local governments and national and regional local government organizations that have made a commitment to sustainable development. More than 475 cities, towns, counties, and t(tags: Sustainability)
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Science Shops are not “shops” in the traditional sense of the word. They are small entities that carry out scientific research in a wide range of disciplines – usually free of charge and – on behalf of citizens and local civil society. The fact th(tags: Microeconomics Capacity_Building)
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As far as we know, this is the best quick guide to community organizing on the web. We’ve separated out local information so it will be useful to people living in other places.
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Civic Practices Network (CPN) is a collaborative and nonpartisan project bringing together a diverse array of organizations and perspectives within the civic renewal movement. We share a commitment to bring practical methods for public problem solving int(tags: Civic_Engagement Community)
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The National Rural Development Partnership acts as a non-partisan forum for identifying, discussing, and acting on issues affecting rural America. The NRDP does not supplant, duplicate, or compete with any program, but rather facilitates coordination and(tags: Rural)
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Water Infrastructure Network (WIN) is a broad-based coalition of local elected officials, drinking water and wastewater service providers, state environmental and health administrators, engineers and environmentalists dedicated to preserving and protectin(tags: Natural_Resources)
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Welcome to the Kansas City Neighborhood Alliance (KCNA), a non-profit community development corporation serving metropolitan Kansas City. KCNA’s vision is to build the capacity of neighborhoods to become safe, strong, stable and attractive places where pe(tags: Social_Capital Kansas)
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The World Conservation Union is the world’s largest and most important conservation network. The Union brings together 82 States, 111 government agencies, more than 800 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and some 10,000 scientists and experts from 1(tags: Environmentalism)
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ODI is Britain’s leading independent think-tank on international development and humanitarian issues.(tags: Relief Economic_Development)
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The Center for Civic Partnerships is a support organization that strengthens individuals, organizations, and communities by facilitating learning, leadership development, and networking. We envision a world where everyone can live a healthy, productive li(tags: Civic_Engagement)
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The quality of our work in the professions depends upon our willingness to ask questions of ourselves and others, and to explore challenging ideas and practices, including the values that underpin them. The Collaborative Action Research Network (CARN) is(tags: Action_Research)
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Developmental Idealism Studies examines developmental idealism, both descriptively and causally. The research agenda is motivated by the understanding that developmental idealism has been a powerful force for social change in both the West and non-West. O(tags: Economic_Development)
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The Center for Urban Ethnography (CUE) was founded in 1969 with a major grant from the Center for Studies of Metropolitan Problems of the National Institute of Mental Health. CUE moved to the Graduate School of Education in 1976, where it undertook a seri(tags: Urban_Studies)
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The College of Human Ecology is dedicated to improving the human condition, whether through policy, nutrition, shelter and clothing, medicine, or the legal system. Faculty have helped create the Head Start program, developed strategies for fighting diseas(tags: Psychology Sociology)
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In a living educational theory approach to action research, individuals produce accounts or explanations of their educational influence in their own learning in enquiries of the kind, ‘How am I improving what I am doing?’ in contexts where they are seekin(tags: Action_Research)
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In this important series of reports, the Progressive Policy Institute’s Technology & New Economy Project examines what’s actually new about the so-called “New Economy” and offers policy makers a framework for economic development strategies aimed at promo(tags: Macroeconomics)
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The Sloan Work and Family Research Network is designed to support research and teaching, promote best practices at the workplace, and inform state policy on issues that affect the lives of working families and the places where they work. Click here for mo(tags: Sociology)
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At 29, Rory Stewart was running a swathe of Iraq. He tells Jasper Gerard of being under fire both from likeable warlords and clueless western officials.(tags: Iraq)
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The mission of the Florida Center is to assist the citizens of Florida in the creation of more sustainable and livable communities(tags: Community)
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The Institute for Local Self Reliance (ILSR) is a small organization with a remarkable track record for breaking new ground in promoting sustainable communities. In 1978 RAIN magazine described ILSR as an organization that “puts hard numbers on soft dream(tags: Community Sustainability)
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Initiated through Impact Alliance, an international platform of NGOs involved in Governance and capacity building, the Local Governance Barometer aims to measure and compare performance of any governance system. Still under development, this tool should a(tags: Political_Development Monitoring)
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El Centro nuclea a un grupo de profesionales calificados de diversas ramas de las ciencias sociales (sociología, demografía, economía, educación, psicología social, geografía). Su programa de actividades comprende: investigación, asistencia técni(tags: Argentina)
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The scientific mission of the Institute for Social Research (ISR) includes the planning and conduct of high quality social science research, the dissemination of findings from this research, and the training of future generations of social scientists. We(tags: Sociology)
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Established in 1961, the Population Studies Center has a rich history as an interdisciplinary community of scholars in population research and training. PSC is one of five centers within the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research (ISR).(tags: Population)
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Praxis is a not-for-profit, autonomous, development support organization (set up by ActionAid India in 1997) seeking to facilitate the promotion of participatory practices in human development initiatives in an integral manner. In the relatively short pe(tags: India)
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IIED , an international policy research institute and non governmental body working for more sustainable and equitable global development. Although based in London we work globally through a wide range of long-standing relationships with partners across t(tags: Sustainability Economic_Development)
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IED Afrique est une nouvelle organisation basée au Sénégal qui intervient sur les problématiques de développement durable et de citoyenneté en Afrique en mettant l’accent sur les innovations méthodologiques et participatives.(tags: Senegal)
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Padma is a local non-government development organization signifying the name of most potential river of Bangladesh, set up in 2000 by a group of progressive dedicated youth of Jhenidah district. Moved by the sorrows and distress of the poor and oppressed(tags: Bangladesh)
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The website is an authoritative source of information about the departments and agencies of the Government, current information on policies and programmes and general information for prospective clients, visitors, students and investors. The information i(tags: Anguilla)
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Ours is a tiny island with a big reputation. With a population of some 12,000, Anguilla is a British Overseas Territory, 16 miles long, and 3 miles at her widest point. Boasting 33 white sand beaches with crystal clear waters, a contemporary international(tags: Anguilla)
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CPRC is an international partnership of universities, research institutes and NGOs established in 2000 with initial funding from the UK’s Department for International Development.(tags: Poverty)
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The Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA) is an international organization devoted to advancing theory, research, and social action. Its members are committed to promoting health and empowerment and to preventing problems in communities, groups(tags: Civic_Engagement)
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The distinct features of post-industrialism, such as the trends toward rising numbers of white-collar workers, decreasing numbers of blue-collar workers, a greater emphasis on information goods rather than industrial manufacturing, the mobilization of sci(tags: Sociology Social_Networking)
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IAIA is the International Association for Impact Assessment, organized in 1980 to bring together researchers, practitioners, and users of various types of impact assessment from all parts of the world. IAIA involves people from many disciplines and profes(tags: Public_Policy)
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Tools and expertise to build a better world - At Global Development Group (GDG) we have a head for business and a heart for humanity. We harness private-sector innovations and efficiencies in information technology, human-resource management and internati(tags: Economic_Development)
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This contribution outlines several variants of teacher / action research, describing some of the different “tools” and “intentions” of a number of prominent qualitative researchers.(tags: Action_Research)
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The International Finance Corporation is the private sector arm of the World Bank Group.(tags: Institutions Macroeconomics)
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Imp-Act is a global programme designed to improve the quality of microfinance services and their impact on poverty. Imp-Act supports microfinance institutions (MFIs) in developing their own social performance management (SPM) systems. These systems use a(tags: Poverty Microcredit)
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Welcome to the database of the Donor Committee’s Business Environment Working Group - for sharing documents and information about donor-supported work to enhance the business environment to achieve pro-poor growth. A unique feature of this site is a focus(tags: Donors)
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The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) research program is an annual assessment of the national level of entrepreneurial activity. Initiated in 1999 with 10 countries, expanded to 21 in the year 2000, with 29 countries in 2001 and 37 countries in 2002.
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The Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) is a multidonor technical assistance facility aimed at helping developing countries improve the quality of their infrastructure through private sector involvement. Launched in July 1999, PPIAF wa(tags: Capacity_Building)
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The Russian SME Resource Centre (RCSME), a non-commercial foundation initially established under Tacis program, performs research in SME development, provides policy advisory services and information support to small and medium business community.(tags: Microeconomics Russia)
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The SEEP Network is an organization of more than 60 international private and voluntary organizations that support micro and small business and microfinance institutions in the developing world. Its mission is to advance the practice of micro and small en(tags: Microcredit Microeconomics)
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We work with the private and public sectors to promote a policy, regulatory and operating environment conducive to business growth in Africa. This overarching objective is underpinned by our core work streams– research and policy advocacy, the promotio(tags: South_Africa)
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The primary purpose of this web site is to provide a central starting point for CARE staff - as well as staff of other international relief and development agencies to locate resources related to program Design, Monitoring and Evaluation. You will find h(tags: Monitoring)
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The CHANGE Project (1998-2005) provided leadership for behavior change innovation, tools and strategies. CHANGE focused on helping health and nutrition programs develop and apply practical solutions to behavior change problems. The CHANGE Project ended in
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Since 1975, research and evaluation has been an inextricable part of BRAC’s mission, providing an analytical basis for BRAC’s programmatic decisions, allowing BRAC to learn from its mistakes, and helping BRAC to share the impact and lessons from its work(tags: Monitoring Bangladesh)
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With a vision of “a just, enlightened, healthy and democratic Bangladesh free from hunger, poverty, environmental degradation and all forms of exploitation based on age, sex, religion and ethnicity,” BRAC started as an almost entirely donor funded, small-(tags: Bangladesh)
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GRI accomplishes this vision by developing, continuously improving and building capacity around the use of the GRI’s Sustainability Reporting Framework, the core of which b