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Surveying recently arrived immigrants in countries lacking a population register poses many challenges. We describe our adaptation of Respondent Driven Sampling, a chain-referral technique, to sample migrants from Pakistan and Poland who had arrived in the UK within the previous 18 months....
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Although science has unlocked the secrets of the human genome, the causes of social and economic development remain stubbornly enigmatic. Why do some countries adopt new technologies more readily than others? Why does income inequality persist in some regions--even in the face of rapid economic...
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This book is based on a conference entitled "Regional Public Goods and Regional Development Assistance", held in Washington, D.C. on November 6-7, 2002. It examines how the IDB and the ADB support the provision of regional public goods (RPGs) in Latin America and Asia, respectively. RPGs are...
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The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...
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This book presents the proceedings of a seminar on the need for administrative, judicial and legislative reform in Latin American and the Caribbean, held in San José, Costa Rica, February 4-6,1993. Issues addressed include judicial management, training, and administration.Abstract: Esta...
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accessions (by Hermine Vidovic; pp. 5 7) Keywords Integration, EU Countries covered Croatia Topics Macroeconomic Analysis and …
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experiences (by H. Vidovic; pp. 5-14) Keywords migration, EU, integration Countries covered European Union, New EU Member States … International Trade and Competitiveness; Industry; Economic Integration Statistical Annex Selected monthly data on the economic …
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, Azerbaijan, and Turkey. Their economies differ in their size, institutional characteristics and integration perspectives, are … rather low level of their regional integration the latter generally proceeds only to the extent to which it is compatible … with the (very unequal) format of these countries' relations with the EU. At the same time, multilateral integration under …
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The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the …, which implies that the outcomes of the social integration process are inherited. Inherited integration has a particularly …
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have shaped Argentina's income distribution: deep macroeconomic crisis and periods of openness and integration. The sizable … integration. The depth and speed of the reforms and the absence of public policies to ease the transition contributed to the …
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