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October 1999
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12 Oct 1999
Understanding Governance in Strong Aboriginal Communities
Publisher:
Institute on Governance (IOG)
International development agencies such as the World Bank have been struggling with the following conundrum: some countries have received substantial foreign aid and yet their incomes have fallen while others have received little assistance and their...
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Oct 1999
Secrecy and Knowledge Production
Author: Steven Aftergood, Keith C. Clarke, John G. Cloud, Michael Aaron Dennis, W. Mark Fruin, Hugh Gusterson, Francis B. Kapper, Alec Shuldiner, David A. Wallace, Susan Wright
Publisher:
Peace Studies Program (PSP)
This paper features chapters discussing the relationship of secrecy to the production of scientific and technical knowledge, the practice and consequences of secrecy in the national security arena, and the ways in which secrecy operates in private co...
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September 1999
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1 Sep 1999
The Government and the Social Sector: The Role of Private and Public Investment
Author: Manuel Gollás
Publisher:
MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies
This paper addresses the government's role in the national economy and the related costs and benefits, focusing on Mexico.
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1 Sep 1999
Growth and Human Development: Comparative Latin American Experience
Author: Gustav Ranis, Frances Stewart
Publisher:
MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies
This paper explores the link between economic growth and human development and presents related empirical findings from South America.
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Sep 1999
The Greening of Business in Mexico
Author: David Barkin
Publisher:
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
This paper describes how trends in the 1980s associated with economic liberalization, export-oriented growth and foreign direct investment stimulated a vigorous debate in Mexico about the effects of business on the environment.
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Sep 1999
Japan at the Crossroads
Author: Gerald L Curtis
Publisher:
East-West Center (EWC)
This paper analyzes Japan's modern history and the prospects for another round of reforms, which stagnant economic growth, pressures from an uneasy electorate, worried Asian neighbors and the US could make necessary.
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Sep 1999
Proceedings of the Conference on Russia and Asia–Pacific Security
Author: Vyacheslav B Amirov, Vladimir Baranovsky, Chen Qimao, Gennady Chufrin, Alexander Fedorovsky, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Vladimir I Ivanov, Joyce K Kallgren, Andrew C Kuchins, Mitsuo Mii, Satoshi Morimoto, Mikhail G Nosov, Jonathan Pollack, Sang-Woo Rhee, Motohide Saito, Tsuneaki Sato, Nobuo Shimotomai, Victor Sumsky, Yuri V Tsyganov, Yoshinobu Yamamoto
Publisher:
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
This volume is based on the papers presented at an international conference, ‘Russia and Asia–Pacific Security’, which was convened at the International House of Japan in Tokyo on 19–21 February 1999.
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