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  Population 6.16 mln
  
  Population growth 2%
  
  Life expectancy 74 years
  
  Net migration 10,000
  
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  GDP $58.33 bln
  
  - per capita $9,475
  
  - growth rate 7%
  
  FDI, net inflows $4.69 bln
  
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While some people dismiss gamification as a fad, neuroscientists are discovering more and more about the ways in which humans react to such interactive design elements. They say such elements can cause feel-good chemical reactions, alter human responses to stimuli - increasing reaction times, for instance - and in certain situations can improve learning, participation, and motivation. Technology consultancy Gartner has projected 50% of corporate innovation will be “gamified” by 2015. Another more...

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D C on May 21, 2012

Open science, open access and open source software at Open Medicine

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov –

Is access to the final polished version of research enough? Could we do more to encourage the collaborative reuse and reanalysis of existing data, or the verification of analyses? Could we move from open access to open science?As the name seems to imply, there is no strict definition of open science, but it is inextricably linked to the parallel movements of open access publication and open source software. Open Medicine itself is using open source software to underpin its journal management, more...

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D C on May 21, 2012

Gender Disparities in Africa's Labor Market

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The main aim of this book is to help fill the gap in current knowledge about the nature, the extent, and some of the root causes of gender disparities in Africa, showing what can be revealed about the application of standard and less standard tools and methods to existing survey and national account data. The analysis herein is novel in providing in-depth assessments of some of the sources of gender disparities in different labor market outcomes. A part of the book provides results on the basis more...

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D C on May 21, 2012

Bulgarian construction market stabilizes; begins road to recovery

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Although home prices continued to fall in 2011 and the FDI level remained disappointing through much of the year, the construction market in Bulgaria has also shown promising signs of stability and the first stages of recovery on the whole, as well as in its three major market sectors – residential, non-residential and civil engineering. Permits for the construction of new office buildings remained constant from the year before, while the overall number of projects has increased during 2011 more...

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Justyna Król on May 21, 2012

Accelerating Inclusive Business Opportunities: Business Models that Make a Difference

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The report, Accelerating Inclusive Business Opportunities: Business Models that Make a Difference, underscores IFC’s commitment to creating opportunity at the base of the economic pyramid. Its findings are based on an analysis of IFC’s portfolio, which found that mature investments in companies with inclusive business models show financial returns very similar to those of IFC’s portfolio as a whole, while having a larger impact on development. The report was released at IFC’s 2nd Annual more...

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D C on May 21, 2012

Is Humanity Doomed? Insights from Astrobiology

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Astrobiology, the study of life in the universe, offers profound insights into human sustainability. However, astrobiology is commonly neglected in sustainability research. This paper develops three topics connecting astrobiology to sustainability: constraints on what zones in the universe are habitable, the absence of observations of extraterrestrial civilizations, and the physical fate of the universe. These topics have major implications for our thinking and action on sustainability. more...

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D C on May 21, 2012

Free Seeds, not Free Beer: Participatory Plant Breeding, Open Source Seeds, and Acknowledging User Innovation in Agriculture

law2.fordham.edu –

In the context of user-innovation, agriculture has been a field where farmers substantively contributed to developing and improving existing and new plant varieties. This essay looks at how the rise and expansion of intellectual property rights in plants and varieties during the twentieth century has significantl reduced the role of farmers in plant breeding, turning them into consumers providing labor to raise crops in which others hold the underlying intellectual property rights.This more...

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D C on May 21, 2012

Best Sollution Anti Aging problem

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Astonishingly, that is just a guess but it is the case if and when this works. There was a certain elegance regarding Dermapure. Of course, permit me ask you the question so that will be really dicey. Somehow or other, here's a DermaPure news break. I'm covering everything. Maybe you're considering this part of DermaPure. You expect this, correct? I will attempt to offer some insight into how to buy DermaPure. It is how to promote DermaPure. I know that you may be deep in thought on DermaPure. more...

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nillelin sim on May 21, 2012

Youth and the Labor Force: Background and Trends

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Congress has indicated a strong interest in ensuring that today’s young people—those ages 16 through 24—attain the education and employment experience necessary to make the transition to adulthood as skilled workers and taxpayers. This report provides context for policymakers on the youth employment situation. It includes data on labor force participation, employment, and unemployment in the post-World War II period, with a focus on trends since 2000. This discussion compares rates based on more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 21, 2012

A Global “No” To a Nuclear-Armed Iran

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96% of the French and the Germans, 94% of Americans and 91% of the British oppose Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. Other Europeans have similar sentiments. Fully 95% in Spain, 94% in Czech Republic and 91% in Italy do not want Tehran to have an atomic bomb. Roughly three-in-four Russians (77%) are against Tehran acquiring nuclear armaments. In China, 54% oppose Tehran’s nuclear weapons ambitions, down 15 points from 2007.Iran’s regional neighbors generally would rather not see an Iranian nuclear more...

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D C on May 21, 2012

Biofuels goals 'may lead to food shortages'

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Parts of the developing world, particularly India and countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, will suffer food shortages if their planned biofuels targets are implemented by 2020, a study has warned. More than 40 countries have made commitments to meet at least ten per cent of their transportation fuel needs with biofuel by 2020. "Our results suggest that the impacts would be significant in developing countries like India and Sub-Saharan Africa," the researchers, based in Ethiopia, Italy and the more...

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D C on May 21, 2012

Trafficking in Persons in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Trafficking in persons (TIP) for the purpose of exploitation is a lucrative criminal activity that is of major concern to the United States and the international community. Countries in Latin America serve as source, transit, and destination countries for trafficking victims. This report describes the nature and scope of the problem of trafficking in persons in Latin America and the Caribbean.1 It then describes U.S. efforts to deal with trafficking in persons in the region, as well as more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 21, 2012

Mobilizing Knowledge Networks for Development Conference

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June 19 - 20, 2012Location: The World Bank Group1818 H Street NW, Washington DC 20433The goal of the workshop is to explore ways to become better providers and connectors of knowledge in a world where the sources of knowledge are increasingly diverse and disbursed. The goal is to find better ways to connect those that have the development knowledge with those that need it, when they need it.The Conference and Knowledge fair will provide an opportunity for knowledge organizations working in more...

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D C on May 21, 2012

The Great Shift: Macroeconomic projections for the world economy at the 2050 horizon

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In this paper, the authors present growth scenarios for 147 countries to 2050, based on MaGE (Macroeconometrics of the Global Economy), a three-factor production function that includes capital, labor and energy. The results suggest that, accounting for relative price variations, China could account for 33% of the world economy in 2050, which would be much more than the United States (9%), India (8%), the European Union (12%) and Japan (5%). They suggest also that China would overtake the United more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 21, 2012

Trade Effects of Exchange Rates and their Volatility: Chile and New Zealand

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The impact of exchange rate levels on trade has been much debated but the large body of existing empirical literature does not suggest an unequivocally clear picture of the trade impacts of changes in exchange rates. This study examines the impact of exchange rates and their volatility on trade flows in two small, open economies – Chile and New Zealand – with three major trading partners, in two broadly defined sectors – agriculture on the one hand and manufacturing and mining on the other. It more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 21, 2012

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