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DEBT SUSTAINABILITY FRAMEWORK FOR LOW INCOME COUNTRIES: POLICY AND RESOURCE IMPLICATIONS Paper submitted for the G-24 Technical Group Meeting (Washington, D.C. September 27-28 2004) Part 9 Nihal Kappagoda, Research Associate, The North-South Institute Nancy C. Alexander, Director,[r]

38. Buchan J, Calman L: Skill-Mix and policy change in the health workforce.OECD Health Working Papers 2005, 17.39. Viswanathan M, Kraschnewski JL, Nishikawa B, Morgan LC, Honeycutt AA,Thieda P, Lohr LN, Jonas DE: Outcomes and costs of community healthworker interventions: a systematic review. Medic[r]

DEBT SUSTAINABILITY FRAMEWORK FOR LOW INCOME COUNTRIES: POLICY AND RESOURCE IMPLICATIONS Paper submitted for the G-24 Technical Group Meeting (Washington, D.C. September 27-28 2004) Part 5 Nihal Kappagoda, Research Associate, The North-South Institute Nancy C. Alexander, Director,[r]

DEBT SUSTAINABILITY FRAMEWORK FOR LOW INCOME COUNTRIES: POLICY AND RESOURCE IMPLICATIONS Paper submitted for the G-24 Technical Group Meeting (Washington, D.C. September 27-28 2004) Part 7 Nihal Kappagoda, Research Associate, The North-South Institute Nancy C. Alexander, Director,[r]

DEBT SUSTAINABILITY FRAMEWORK FOR LOW INCOME COUNTRIES: POLICY AND RESOURCE IMPLICATIONS Paper submitted for the G-24 Technical Group Meeting (Washington, D.C. September 27-28 2004) Part 8 Nihal Kappagoda, Research Associate, The North-South Institute Nancy C. Alexander, Director,[r]

DEBT SUSTAINABILITY FRAMEWORK FOR LOW INCOME COUNTRIES: POLICY AND RESOURCE IMPLICATIONS Paper submitted for the G-24 Technical Group Meeting (Washington, D.C. September 27-28 2004) Part 10 Nihal Kappagoda, Research Associate, The North-South Institute Nancy C. Alexander, Director,[r]

4. Country performance is judged on the rating assigned to the criteria in the policy clusters, governance and portfolio performance. According to the Bank, the purpose of the CPIA is to measure a country’s policy and institutional development framework for poverty reduction, sustainable growth and[r]

experiencing debt distress that borrowers seem willing to tolerate was identified as 25 percent based on the experience of countries in their sample. Thereafter debt thresholds dependent on the country’s policies and institutions measured by the CPIA5 were derived. A distress probability of 2[r]

DEBT SUSTAINABILITY FRAMEWORK FOR LOW INCOME COUNTRIES: POLICY AND RESOURCE IMPLICATIONS Paper submitted for the G-24 Technical Group Meeting (Washington, D.C. September 27-28 2004) Part 6 Nihal Kappagoda, Research Associate, The North-South Institute Nancy C. Alexander, Director,[r]

• An analysis of the costs of scaling up a core intervention package in low- and middle-income countries by the World Health OrganizationThe economic consequences of NCDs are staggering. Under a “business as usual” scenario where intervention efforts remain static and rates of NCDs co[r]

Methods. We searched multiple databases for studies published through May 2010 that evaluated the diagnosticperformance of QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT-GIT) and T-SPOT.TB (T-SPOT) among adults withsuspected active pulmonary tuberculosis or patients with confirmed cases in low- and middle-incom[r]

collaborations and mutual expectations.Benefits for corporate partnersWhat did Pfizer get out of the program, and what benefitsmight other corporations obtain by adopting public-pri-vate partnerships based on corporate international volun-teering? In recent years, public expectations have grownregar[r]

Availability and affordability of anticancer medicines is a matter of great concern especially for low and middle income countries e.g., Pakistan. Prime focus of this study was to evaluate the availability of anticancer medicines in public and private sectors, and their affordability among patients[r]

5. Long-term prospects Future prospects may favour the importance of low-income countries in global fruit trade. Within the next five to ten years, CBI expects that: Arable land will become scarcer while world population grows and therefore the pressure on prices and margins will rel[r]

The global burden from cancer is rising, especially as low-income countries like Bangladesh observe rapid aging. So far, there are no comprehensive descriptions reporting diagnosed cancer group that include hematological malignancies in Bangladesh.

Breast cancer (BC) is the most frequent cancer occurring in women across the world. Its mortality rate in low-middle income countries (LMICs) is higher than in high-income countries (HICs), and in Indonesia BC is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women.

291trade openness lower than about 35 percent or higher than about 75 percent oftheir GDPs. Coefficient estimates of financial depth are found to be nonnegative for almost any degree of trade openness. Therefore, according to historical cross-country data, there is also evidence that optimal trade o[r]

While the world raw food index had dropped 20 percent in one year by early 2009, local food 3Economic Update: Countries’ Evolving Vulnerability from the Lens of Children(i.e. balance of payments) diculty is severe, causing local currency devaluations. The latest IMF projections show that, al[r]

Future prospects may favour the importance of low-income countries in global fruit trade. Within the next five to ten years, CBI expects that: Arable land will become scarcer while world population grows and therefore the pressure on prices and margins will relax. Michael Porter has w[r]

which parties can curb leader incentives to shirk on their responsibilities, leading the party to renegeon its commitments. Parties that cannot manage leader transitions are less likely to sanction leaderswho renege.Second, it is more costly for candidates to leave parties that have organizationalar[r]