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This paper focuses on the report of the third meeting of the joint intergovernmental regional committee on human settlements and environment. The meeting taken some main areas of action with respect to land for housing ...

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This report to the Conference of Ministers represents an important of a sequence of publications-under the collective topic: "Coal in Africa Basic Proposals for its- Development" and concentrates on the African

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In the final analysis, reducing fertilizer subsidies in Indonesia is a question of enlightened economic foresight, the right reform tiding (e.g., following a good production year), and ability to overcome the rent-seeking ...

As a result of the increasing deterioration in the state of the world's environment, the United Nations General Assembly, by resolution 38/161 adopted at its thirty-eighth session, decided to set up a World Commission on ...

This paper is a progress report on the establishment of the African center of meteorological applications for development (ACMAD).