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- Key Issues of Governance and Finance of Kyrgyz Education
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May 15, 2007 09:53
The paper analyzes the governance structure and the financing of Kyrgyz education, with special emphasis on the general secondary education system.
- The Financing of Georgian Education
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May 15, 2007 09:53
The paper analyzes Georgian education finance and show that it is embedded in the overall structure of Georgian rayon finances, reflecting all their weaknesses: inequalities, lack of transparency, unmanageability, room for corruption.
- Tajikistan: Teenage Girls Dropping Out of School
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May 15, 2007 09:54
The article focuses on the issue of teenage girls dropping out of schools in Tajikistan. Parents of the girls ensure that “tradition” dictates they don’t need education.
- Times of the Technoculture: from the information society to the virtual life
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May 15, 2007 09:54
The book answers the question wheather at today's computer technology it is cyber-revolution-or information capitalism. The authors trace the information age from the Industrial Revolution to the silicon chip and the Internet.
- Information society - 2001, Issue 2
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May 15, 2007 09:54
This scientific-analytical journal is a Russian publication that systematically and step by step considers the government policy in this field. This issue has the following table of content:
- Technologies of information society – internet and modern society 2000
- All-Russian conference “Future of Russia – creating information society of XXI century”
- Social, political and legal aspects of transition of Russia into information society
- Foreign experience
- Information, consultations, advertisement
- Information society - 2000, Issue 5
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May 15, 2007 09:54
This scientific-analytical journal is a Russian publication that systematically and step by step considers the government policy in this field. This issue has the following table of content:
- Information society and government
- Education in information society
- Information society and modern city
- Foreign experience. International cooperation
- Information, consultations, advertisement
- Moldova - Opportunities for accelerated growth - a Country Economic Memorandum for the Republic of Moldova
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November 23, 2007 12:47
This Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) explores how Moldova can confront its emerging challenges to growth, and position itself strategically to take advantage of opportunities, by using its strengths more effectively.
- Kyrgyz Republic - Country Economic Memorandum - Enhancing the prospects for growth and trade (Vol. 1 of 2) : Main report (Russian)
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November 23, 2007 12:48
This Country Economic Memorandum is aimed at helping the authorities in the Kyrgyz Republic identify factors explaining the apparent divergence between policies and outcomes, with a view to determining priorities for reform in the coming period.
- Kyrgyz Republic - Country Economic Memorandum - Enhancing the prospects for growth and trade (Vol. 2 of 2) : Annexes (Russian)
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November 23, 2007 12:49
This Country Economic Memorandum is aimed at helping the authorities in the Kyrgyz Republic identify factors explaining the apparent divergence between policies and outcomes, with a view to determining priorities for reform in the coming period.
- Kyrgyz Republic - Country Economic Memorandum - Enhancing the prospects for growth and trade (Vol. 1 of 2)
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November 23, 2007 12:50
This Country Economic Memorandum is aimed at helping the authorities in the Kyrgyz Republic identify factors explaining the apparent divergence between policies and outcomes, with a view to determining priorities for reform in the coming period.
- Enhancing women's participation in economic development
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November 23, 2007 14:29
This paper points to actions that can help to turn around this inequitable situation. Evidence of what works is particularly strong in five areas: education, health, wage labor, agriculture and natural resource management, and financial services. The paper also suggests a broadening of the women in development approach toward a gender in development strategy that takes into account the relative roles and responsibilities of women and men and recognizes that, of effect long-term change in the conditions of women, the actions and attitudes of men must change.
- Migration and remittances : causes and linkages
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November 23, 2007 14:44
The authors empirically examine the determinants of remittance flows at the cross-country level. They consider, among other things, the significance of the level of migration, the education level of migrants, and financial sector development in determining remittances.
- Brain gain : claims about its size and impact on welfare and growth are greatly exaggerated
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November 23, 2007 14:48
Based on static partial equilibrium analysis, the "new brain drain" literature argues that, by raising the return to education, a brain drain generates a brain gain that is, under certain conditions, larger than the brain drain itself, and that such a net brain gain results in an increase in welfare and growth due to education's positive externalities. This paper argues that these claims are exaggerated.
- Unemployment and the earnings structure in Latvia
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November 23, 2007 15:10
The paper explores the mysteries of unemployment in Latvia. It analyzes labor flows between employment, unemployment, and nonparticipation and finds the following results: The type of education and the region of residence appear to be the most important determinants of success in finding jobs by the unemployed.
- Kazakhstan - Reforming intergovernmental fiscal relations
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November 23, 2007 16:00
The report makes two major recommendations. First, it recommends that the Government of Kazakhstan provide separate, earmarked funding for functions with critical distributional implications. This would include primary education and primary health. These services would be financed on a capitation basis (i.e., an equal amount per pupil and registered patient, respectively.) The remaining subnational functions would be financed from an annually-determined share of the budget.
- Tajikistan : Public expenditure and institutional review
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November 23, 2007 16:10
This Public Expenditure and Institutional Review is part of a package of analytical and advisory service products aimed at assisting the government and Tajikistan's other development partners to develop a medium- to long-term strategy for public sector reform to support the government's poverty reduction objectives.
- Belarus - Window of opportunity to enhance competitiveness and sustain economic growth - a Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) for the Republic of Belarus (Vol. 1 of 2)
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November 23, 2007 16:15
This Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) for the Republic of Belarus takes stock of the growth trends in the country's economy since 1996, reviews the evidence of the accumulated challenges and risks within the existing growth patterns, and provides recommendations aimed at strengthening growth sustainability.
- Belarus - Window of opportunity to enhance competitiveness and sustain economic growth - a Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) for the Republic of Belarus (Vol. 1 of 2)
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November 23, 2007 16:16
This Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) for the Republic of Belarus takes stock of the growth trends in the country's economy since 1996, reviews the evidence of the accumulated challenges and risks within the existing growth patterns, and provides recommendations aimed at strengthening growth sustainability.
- Russian Federation - From transition to development : a country economic memorandum for the Russian Federation
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November 23, 2007 16:21
The purpose of this Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) is to assess the extent of structural change in the Russian Federation, and its contribution to long-term growth - a prerequisite for meeting the government's ambitious economic objectives.
- Uzbekistan - Public Expenditure Review
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November 23, 2007 16:23
This Public Expenditure Review (PER) is Uzbekistan's first one, prepared as part of the Bank's effort to establish a multiyear program of public expenditure work with the Government.

