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The European Perspective And Experience In Promoting Regional Development, Robert C. Shelburne Nov 2008

The European Perspective And Experience In Promoting Regional Development, Robert C. Shelburne

Robert C. Shelburne

A presentation in Doha, Qatar at the UN Follow-up Conference on Financing for Development which provides a European perspective on the Doha and Monterrey documents regarding financing for development. The European approach to cooperation and integration is based upon a similar set of principles. New developmental issues that need more attention include remittances, climate change, and the implications of the financial crisis for the European development model and the design of the international monetary system.

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The Economic Situation In Europe, North America And The Cis In 2007-2008, Robert C. Shelburne Apr 2008

The Economic Situation In Europe, North America And The Cis In 2007-2008, Robert C. Shelburne

Robert C. Shelburne

This document was prepared for the 2008 meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). It provides an analysis of the economic situation in Europe, North America, and the CIS during 2007 and 2008. It is also available in French, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, and Chinese on the UN ECOSOC web site.

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Words Leave No Fossils: Positing The Spread Of Indo-European Languages Across Neolithic Europe, Denice J. Szafran Mar 2008

Words Leave No Fossils: Positing The Spread Of Indo-European Languages Across Neolithic Europe, Denice J. Szafran

Denice J Szafran, Ph.D.

Various disciplines of anthropology generally accept that the Indo-European language spread throughout Europe some time after the Mesolithic era; how and when this happened is consistently debated, however. Archaeological and archaeogenetic theories on these details are wide and varied, including Gimbutas' kurgan invasions, Renfrew's peer polity, Renfrew and Bellwood's first farmers, Adams and Otte's climactic change, Robb's sociological and Cavalli-Sforza's genetic studies. Most of these give only cursory glances to linguistic theories of the methods of language diffusion and dispersal, or in the case of memetics, have attempted to combine the two divergent fields. An analysis of these theories leads …

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Financing Development In The Unece Emerging Markets, Robert C. Shelburne Jan 2008