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access to telecommunications networks and a surge in the number of available services and applications. While many factors …
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and ongoing experiences with private provision of water services in Brazil and assesses their impact on access and … poor. It uses different estimation methods and datasets to determine whether or not there is any difference in access to … entail the conclusion that PSP in Brazil has delivered higher access to water services, benefiting mostly the poor. They are …
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This paper seeks to explore the issues of Internet governance from a development perspective. The WSIS process and the report of the UN Working group on Internet Governance provide an initial framework within which to develop the issues. These issues not only concern the equitable distribution...
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changes in inequality in access to higher education in Russia. While intuition points toward a positive effect of introduction … of the standardized tests and educational vouchers on the decrease in inequality in access to higher education and more … changes in inequalities in income distribution, concentration of wealth, or access to higher education more precisely than …
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Democratic decentralization in the state of West Bengal, of its own, are not producing systems that are more effective or more accountable to local needs and interests. The formal mechanisms matter less than the informal institutions that underpin local political economies. And the understanding...
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Abstract. The decisions in the cohesion policy have a significant impact upon the offer and supply, in a way that, under the influence of the multipliers, they constantly reconfigure the components of the internal consumption (such as investments, private consumption and imports), and the...
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hospital stays between migrants and natives in Spain. However, immigrants have a lower access to specialists and visit …
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According to Copenhagen criteria, any country formulating its option to adhere at the European Union has the obligation to meet a series of requirements: - the consolidation and the stability of the fundamental institutions that guarantee the lawful state and the human rights; - a functional and...
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Using India’s National Sample Survey data on consumption expenditure by households this paper examines how access to … access to electricity for the bottom 60 percent of the population has remained almost stagnant and the burden of electricity … electricity in Orissa by households having access to electricity clearly signifies that electricity reforms have led to …
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Although the International Regime on Access and Benefit-Sharing (IRABS) is a global legal instrument, the provisions of …, conservation, development and sustainable use and access to and benefit sharing. …
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