'For generations, poor people around the world have left their homes to seek better wages abroad. Today, the money they send home totals an estimated US$200 billion a year. In Latin America, remittances are worth more than direct foreign investment, official development assistance and foreign aid combined. They have a huge potential to reduce rural poverty. With this in mind, IFAD is exploring ways to lower the transaction costs of sending money home and is working with governments to make sure more...
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'Doing Business in South East Europe 2008 compares business regulations across seven economies (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo*, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia) in four key areas: starting a business, dealing with licenses, registering property, and enforcing contracts. The study provides comparable data for 22 cities that can inspire reforms at the national and local level and add to the reform momentum of the region. The report shows that di more...
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"Neglecting to provide for treatment for post-traumatic stress disorders can lead to new cycles of violence, says Joanne Sandler, Deputy Director of UNIFEM. In post conflict settings, where new constitutions are agreed upon, national development plans and budgets drawn up, new laws adopted and institutions rebuilt, there is often a unique window of opportunity to advance women’s rights and gender-equality.
At the same time, because conflict generally brings about changes in existing gender re more...
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Brief 12 from REPOA examines citizens’ perceptions of local taxation, investigating why residents do or do not pay local taxes, and their perceptions of misuse of tax revenue. Respondents’ opinions are given on: - why people pay local taxes; - their perception of the provision of public services which are financed by tax revenue collection; perceptions of misuse of tax revenues, and reporting corruption within local taxation systems.
The brief is based on the findings from two surveys co more...
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Newsline on corruption in Australia and New Zealand.
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'This publication presents the findings of the Initiative’s 2005-2006 thematic review on curbing corruption in public procurement. It highlights trends, approaches and achievements across 25 jurisdictions in Asia and the Pacific in a comparative overview that also presents a framework to guide policy development. It also contains reports on individual jurisdictions that provide details on existing policies in national contexts and on key elements of legal and institutional frameworks.'
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'Doing Business (DB), an annual World Bank-IFC publication launched in 2004, is one of the Bank Group's flagship knowledge products. It
measures the burden of selected business regulations in 178 countries and ranks the countries on 10 dimensions. The program's stated objective is to advance the World Bank Group's private sector development agenda in four ways: motivate reforms through country benchmarking; inform the design of reforms; enrich international initiatives on development effectiven more...
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