The United Nations University Center for Management and Social Research and Training Center on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) is a joint research and training centre of United Nations University (UNU) and Maastricht University, The Netherlands. The website makes reports from the Center available online.
Summary: 'Important gaps remain in delivering on the global commitments in the areas of aid, trade, debt relief, and access to new technologies and to affordable essential medicines. In the countdown to 2015, urgent responses are needed to bridge the existing implementation gaps to make good on the promises made to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
A recently released report by the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Gap Task Force identifies these gaps in detail and provides more...
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‘Functional or health-enhancing foods are food-type products that influence specific physiological functions in the body, thereby providing benefits to health, well-being or performance, beyond regular nutrition, and are marketed and consumed for this value added property. This review has indicated some critical success factors in the functional foods sector and suggested some of the common challenges faced by the sector in
developing countries.’(pdf:95pages)
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'Doing Business (DB), an annual World Bank-IFC publication launched in 2004, is one of the Bank Group's flagship knowledge products. It
measures the burden of selected business regulations in 178 countries and ranks the countries on 10 dimensions. The program's stated objective is to advance the World Bank Group's private sector development agenda in four ways: motivate reforms through country benchmarking; inform the design of reforms; enrich international initiatives on development effectiven more...
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This is an update of a previous study, ranking the states of the United States in terms of scientific and technological preparedness. The study may be of interest in developing nations for its methodology which might be adapted, or for those seeking guidance on the centers of scientific and technological excellence in the United States. by Ross DeVol and Anita Charuworn with Soojung Kim, The Milken Institute, June 19, 2008.
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The United Nations World Water Development Report, released every three years in conjunction with the World Water Forum, is the UN’s flagship report on water. It is a comprehensive review that gives an overall picture of the state of the world's freshwater resources and aims to provide decision-makers with the tools to implement sustainable use of our water. Reports for 2003, 2005 and 2009.
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The main aims of the IANIS+ program are:
A) to further develop inter-regional networking;
* providing more effective mechanisms to facilitate sharing information, experience and good practice between regions – both by face-to-face meetings and virtual exchanges;
* to build a bridge between EU-15 regions and regions of the NMS;
* undertaking analysis of regional good practices in terms of innovative projects, programming, processes and organisation. Regions in the new Member Sta more...
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