BIRTH OF A NATION: POVERTY AND DEVELOPMENT IN TIMOR-LESTE [PDF]
Timor-Leste is among the world’s poorest countries and poverty reduction is high on the country’s policy agenda. The National Development Plan emphasizes a poverty reduction strategy based on economic growth and a focus on improvements in the health and ...
Lundahl, Mats, Sjöholm, Fredrik
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No. 04: Silenced by Nation-Building: African Immigrants and Language Policy in the New South Africa [PDF]
, 1998 All people in South Africa have constitutionallyguaranteed language rights. To what extent do these rights apply to non-citizens and are they actually observed by various state departments and officials?
Crawhall, Nigel, Reitzes, Maxine
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Considering a lexicographic plan for Gabon within the Gabonese language landscape [PDF]
, 2009 This article raises a number of questions that should be dealt with in drawing up a lexicographic plan for Gabon. For which of the Gabonese languages should lexicographic units be established? This question entrains the issue of inventorying the Gabonese
Ndinga-Koumba-Binza, Hugues Steve
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Providing Language Services in Small Health Care Provider Settings: Examples From the Field [PDF]
, 2005 Assesses recent innovations in language service programs and activities at healthcare provider settings with ten or fewer clinicians.
Jane Perkins, Mara Youdelman
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The Promise of Preschool in Africa: A Randomized Impact Evaluation of Early Childhood Development in Rural Mozambique [PDF]
, 2012 This report presents initial results of a community based preschool program implemented by Save the Children in the Gaza Province of ...
Sebastian Martinez +2 more
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, 2012 The current wide-ranging and complex relations in the international environment demand a comprehensive approach to challenges in world security. Regional organizations play a decisive role in the peaceful settlement of disputes and conflict prevention.
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Ethnic Concentration, Cultural Identity and Immigrant Self-Employment in Switzerland [PDF]
Immigrant self-employment rates vary considerably across regions in Switzerland. Business ownership provides an alternative to wage labour, where immigrants have to face structural barriers such as the limited knowledge of the local language, or ...
G. Guerra, R. Maggi, R. Patuelli
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Exchange Market Pressure in African Lusophone Countries [PDF]
This paper explores the credibility of exchange rate arrangements for the five African Portuguese-speaking (PALOP) countries. Our working hypothesis is that credibility necessarily implies low mean exchange market pressure (EMP), low EMP conditional ...
Macedo, Jorge Braga de +2 more
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Language matters: advancing linguistic equity in health research in the Americas. [PDF]
Lancet Reg Health AmConnors K, Lara-Arevalo J.
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Flows of educational knowledge. The space-time of Portuguese speaking countries [PDF]
, 2002 Carvalho, Luís Miguel +4 more
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