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The Transition's Mortality Crisis in East Germany provides new empirical evidence on the first two years of reunification revealing the impact on health and mortality of middle-aged men, accidents and...

Selective Policies for Export Promotion: Lessons from the Asian Tigers assesses the efficacy of selective policies for the promotion of manufactured exports in East Asian Experience and draws lessons...

Humanitarian Emergencies and Warlord Economies in Liberia and Sierra Leone examines the correlations between humanitarian emergencies and political economies of these failing states. The publication...

Health Status and Health Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa discusses the main changes in infant, child and maternal mortality which have occurred over the period 1960-1995. It also analyses the main...

War, Hunger and Displacement uses econometric methods and case-study evidence to examine the political economy of complex humanitarian emergencies, multidimensional crises characterized by warfare...

This study re-examines the rationale for development aid; revisits the development debate that accompanied its growth; and draws conclusions for aids' performance which may influence the future. The...

This study looks at the performance of exports in Chile for the period 1960-1995. It identifies the main trends in the growth of exports and attempts to assign responsibility to various factors for...

South-North Challenges in Global Forestry addresses the types of transitions operating in global forestry and evaluates the significance of trends. The publication is part of an applied research and...

The present study examines privatization in transition economies of Eastern and Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. It addresses trade-offs in the choice of privatization methods, the choice...

This publication examines the impact of the transition to a market economy on health and education in transitional Asia, with particular focus on Vietnam. Several lessons emerge from the empirical...

A distinguished cast of contributors look at the systematic and cultural bias in underestimating women's real contribution to national produce and family welfare and explore the consequences of that...

This publication examines the common concerns of developing countries seeking just and fair growth and at the same time highlights their special regional needs. It addresses the following topics: the...

After almost thirty years of bloody conflict, the opposing parties in Northern Ireland eventually signed an agreement about how to share power, thus bringing to an end the conflict that had claimed...

This publication contains statements and other materials from the past two years, 1998-1999, of debate and dialogue in the Economic and Social Council. The aim is to bring the Organization's work to a...

This publication offers a wide-ranging analysis of changing world order at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The contributors to this volume discuss various aspects of this transformation...

This publication evaluates the institutional record on conflict prevention, identifies current trends in conflict prevention practice, and makes recommendations on improving organizational capacity...

In this publication, scholars from around the region analyze the impact of globalization on cities in Asia and the Pacific. This collection of essays forms a useful, comprehensive, and ambitious study...

(Re)democratization in much of Latin America has had to confront a legacy of civil war or political repression, as well as the social dilemmas inherent in the integration of the region into the global...

The new millennium sees humankind living in a vastly more complex, inter-linked, and mutually dependent world. There are increasing numbers of actors in world affairs today, as private and public non...