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Title ?' Growth and Poverty Reduction in Developing and Transition CountriesAbstract ?' The aim of the paper is to evaluate economic growth rates required indifferentes regions of the world to reach the millenium development goal of halvingglobal poverty rate by 2015. Current situation of...
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The Philippines is the fourth largest recipient of remittances in the world with booming information and communications …, remittances interaction with financial development and ICT, trade openness and overseas development assistance (ODA) vis …
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development aid in the long run, in contrast to numerous available evaluation reports on the short-run effects of development …
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The history of Japan’s official development assistance can be divided into four distinct periods in which objectives … have diversified and institutional arrangements have evolved. However, these objectives ranging, from Japan’s own economic … international cooperation. The diversity of the ODA goals has been perpetuated by the lack of a unified entity that manages ODA. At …
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vision, most noticeably in Asia, and has broadened the definition of its security interests. As a result, India-Japan … global partnership between them.India and Japan share a special relationship as fellow democracies without hegemonic … and future economic and population dynamics in both the countries mean that India-Japan relations will continue to improve …
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vision, most noticeably in Asia, and has broadened the definition of its security interests. As a result, India-Japan … two countries. India and Japan share a special relationship as fellow democracies without hegemonic interests and with a … population dynamics in both the countries mean that India-Japan relations will continue to improve not just politically but also …
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The Philippines is at par with developed economies in terms of creating and passing laws that protect and uphold the … participation of PWDs in discount privileges shows that lack of awareness is a major problem and that many PWDs have not been issued …
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This paper reviews recent approaches by developing country governments to include ordinary people, particularly the poor, in democratic processes so as to benefit the people and protect democracy itself. Three issues currently characterise all aspects of government: centrist approaches, fiscal...
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This paper is an attempt to explore the meaning and significance of political participation within (a) the conceptual … examines the idea of representative democracy and the manner in which democratic politics may be sought to be crafted as a … continuum between representation and participation; the second looks at the global experience and experiments in electoral …
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I believe that freedom of choice constitutes a pillar of rational choice in economic theory, regardless of the definition of rational choice one adopts. On the other hand, economics being socially embedded, free choice in economics seems senseless without political freedom of choice. Democracy,...
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