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  Population 12.33 mln
  
  Population growth 3%
  
  Life expectancy 54 years
  
  Net migration -134,204
  
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  GDP $6.86 bln
  
  - per capita $556
  
  - growth rate 3%
  
  FDI, net inflows $0.36 bln
  
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  Cellphone users 21%
  
  Internet users 1%
  
  High-tech exports 7%
  
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Top 10 Largest Recipients of U.S. Aid in 2011

In an effort to build Afghanistan’s economy and to establish security, the U.S. doles out more than $4 billion a year. About half of that is devoted only to training and equipping Afghan troops; another $1.5 billion comes from USAID programs.Israel collected $190 million from USAID in 2011. Israel is also the number one recipient of military aid, receiving a total of $2.75 billion in 2010. The country has received $17 billion from the U.S. over the past 10 years. The United States has given more...

Added by Zunia on February 08, 2012

Landscape, Process and Power: Re-evaluating Traditional Environmental Knowledge (paperback edition)

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Berghahn Books has announced the recent publication of a paperback edition of Landscape, Process and Power: Re-evaluating Traditional Environmental Knowledge, edited by Serena Heckler. In recent years, the field of study variously called local, indigenous or traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) has experienced a crisis brought about by the questioning of some of its basic assumptions. The contributors to this volume argue that to accurately and appropriately describe TEK, the more...

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Giacomo Rambaldi on February 08, 2012

Case studies of intermediary influence

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Based on interviews with intermediary service users, each case study highlights ways in which the information accessed from using intermediary services is applied and the outcomes of that information use. The case studies are unusual in that they focus on outcomes of the services, not the services themselves.The extracts featured on the following pages form part of a larger collection of evaluation data which is being collected by the I-K-Mediary Network to analyse the impact of intermediaries more...

Added by Zunia on February 08, 2012

Global Data Privacy Laws: 89 Countries, and Accelerating

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It is almost forty years since Sweden’s Data Act 1973 was the first comprehensive national data privacy law, and was the first to implement what we can now recognize as a basic set of data protection principles. How many countries now have data protection laws? This article surveys the forty years since then of global development of data privacy laws to the start of 2012. It expands and updates ‘Global data privacy laws: Accelerating after 40 years’ ((2011) Privacy Laws & Business more...

Added by Zunia on February 08, 2012

Climate-smart agriculture for food security in Africa

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Greenhouse agriculture and drip irrigation are examples of climate-smart agricultural innovations that will be increasingly necessary as the effects of climate change take hold in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa. Climate change and variability are likely to severely compromise agricultural production and food security in many African countries. Yields could fall by up to 50% by 2020, while net revenues from crops could drop by as much as 90% by 2100. Small-scale farmers will be most more...

Added by Zunia on February 08, 2012

Beyond Business as Usual: What Might 3-D Wellbeing Contribute to MDG Momentum?

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The Millennium Declaration provided considerable impetus to refocus the efforts of development agents around the world on the major ethical challenge of eradicating global poverty. The MDGs that followed have become an important mechanism for pursuing the agenda of the Millennium Declaration. We are now, however, at a point where reflection on the MDG framework is called for. This article explores what the contribution of a concept of (3-dimensional) wellbeing might bring to a revived MDG more...

Added by Zunia on February 08, 2012

Governance Model with Sole Focus on Shareholder Value Might Not Be the Optimal Way Forward

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CG Insights Series - Top corporate governance experts report on the latest research in emerging markets. Dr. Franklin Allen is a professor of finance and economics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, one of the leading business schools in the United States. He is an expert on corporate finance, asset pricing, and the economics of information, and the author of numerous scholarly works, including research on the role of corporate governance in building firm value.

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fe few on February 08, 2012

Harnessing core business for development impact

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The inclusive business concept contrasts with two previous ways of business thinking. One approach was that companies could deliver their social responsibilities through corporate philanthropy or isolated Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programmes alone. Core business delivered shareholder value, while corporate philanthropy delivered stakeholder value. The second focused on adapting core business, but to reduce negative impacts. Requirements for large investors, particularly extractive more...

Added by Zunia on February 08, 2012

Improved response to disasters and outbreaks by tracking population movements and mobile phone network data: A post earthquake geospatial study in Haiti

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Population movements following disasters can cause important increases in morbidity and mortality. Without knowledge of the locations of affected people, relief assistance is compromised. No rapid and accurate method exists to track population movements after disasters. We used position data of subscriber identity module (SIM) cards from the largest mobile phone company in Haiti (Digicel) to estimate the magnitude and trends of population movements following the Haiti 2010 earthquake and more...

Added by Zunia on February 08, 2012

Global Institutional Philanthropy: A Preliminary Status Report

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As a field of study – if indeed it is a “field” of study – global philanthropy is in its infancy. It defies definition at the same time that it provokes interest and inquiry. While many have contributed to our understanding of global giving, it is fair to say that there are no individual or institutional experts. Reliable giving data can be found in only a limited number of countries. Globally comparable data is non-existent. Careful analysis of philanthropic giving through a global lens is more...

Added by Zunia on February 08, 2012

The index of global philanthropy and remittances 2011

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Nearly 80% of the developed world’s total economic engagement with the developing world is through private financial flows, including investment, philanthropy, and remittances. Additionally, the stability of philanthropy and marginal declines in remittances and their steady return to growth reinforce their importance as a lifeline to the poor in tough economic times. In March 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the State Department would team up with Goldman Sachs to expand more...

Added by Zunia on February 08, 2012

Smarter economics: Investing in girls

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In the past two decades, we have seen remarkable strides in girls’ primary school attendance. But these advances are not yet universal. As highlighted in the 2012 WDR, the Adolescent Girls Initiative (AGI) promotes the transition of girls from school to productive employment using scalable models. Funded by the World Bank, the Nike Foundation, the governments of Australia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom, the AGI is proving the ripple effect starts with girls almost 20,000 more...

Added by Zunia on February 08, 2012

The capability approach and the politics of a social conception of wellbeing

bellagioinitiative.org –

The capability approach constitutes a significant contribution to social theory but its potential is diminished by its insufficient treatment of the social construction of meaning. Social meanings enable people to make value judgements about what they will do and be, and also to evaluate how satisfied they are about what they are able to achieve. From this viewpoint, a person’s state of wellbeing must be understood as being socially and psychologically co-constituted in specific social and more...

Added by Zunia on February 08, 2012

Global Philanthropists and European Development Cooperation

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Recent estimates of European foundation giving for global development have suggested that European foundations direct about one sixth of their funding to development, while American foundations distribute about one fifth of their resources internationally, only a portion of which reaches developing countries. While Gates Foundation giving has been an obvious focal point for interest in philanthropic engagement in development due to a scale putting it in financial terms in the league of smaller more...

Added by Zunia on February 08, 2012

Poverty, sustainability and human wellbeing: A social wellbeing approach to the global fisheries crisis

bellagioinitiative.org –

While the contribution of fisheries to food security and livelihoods is difficult to quantify at a global scale due to inadequate data, we do know that millions of people globally are directly dependent upon fishing for their livelihoods and many more depend on protein rich fish as a basis for their food security. The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent to which a social wellbeing approach can offer a useful way of addressing the policy challenge of reconciling poverty and more...

Added by Zunia on February 08, 2012

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