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| | International development - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | International development is a multidisciplinary field that may impact poverty reduction, governance, healthcare, education, crisis prevention and recovery, and economic restructuring. | | | Institute of Development Management and Governance at UPLB (IDMG)[1] | | | Poverty reduction rejects this notion, consisting instead of direct budget support for social welfare programs that create macroeconomic stability, leading to an increase in economic growth. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_development
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| | Research and development - encyclopedia article about Research and development. |
| | It is the revenue that remains once one deducts the costs that arise only from the generation of that revenue. | | | In the U.S., a typical ratio of research and development for an industrial company is about 3.5% of revenues. | | | Research and Development Obligation and Expenditure Phasing Plan |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/research+and+development
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| | WTO Development - Trade and development gateway |
| | WTO work related to trade and development takes place mostly in the Committee on Trade and Development, the Sub-Committee on Least-Developed Countries and the two working parties created at the Doha Ministerial Conference in 2001, the Working Group on Trade, Debt and Finance and the Working Group on Trade and Transfer of Technology. | | | Ministers in Doha, in the Decision on Implementation-Related Issues and Concerns mandated the Committee on Trade and Development to identify which Special and Differential Provisions are mandatory, and to consider the implications of making mandatory those which are currently non-binding. | | | With this Agenda, WTO Members have placed development issues and the interests of poorer members at the heart of the WTO’s work. |
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http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/devel_e/devel_e.htm
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| | id21 - communicating development research |
| | health, education, urban development, rural development, natural resources and global issues policy in developing countries. | | | Developing countries cannot achieve sustainable growth and poverty reduction unless they integrate into the world economy. | | | Adequate housing and tenure security are proving elusive for poor people in developing country cities. |
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http://www.id21.org
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| | UNDP Newsroom |
| | Developed countries focus on trade, aid, technology and other support needed to reach the MDGs, while in developing countries, the aim is to build coalitions for action and help governments set priorities and use resources more effectively. | | | For more than 70 of the poorest countries, the main strategic tool is a nationally-owned poverty reduction strategy, which relates to national budgets, development activities and other assistance frameworks. | | | Countries &; UNDP assists developing countries in preparing MDG reports that chart progress towards the goals, in cooperation with other UN agencies, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, civil society and other partners. |
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http://www.undp.org/mdg
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| | Development:Topic |
| | The OECD's Development Assistance Committee welcomed the new German government's affirmation that it will increase aid from the present 0.28% of Gross National Income to 0.51% by 2010 and 0.7% by 2015. | | | Africa’s major development challenges are the acceleration of economic growth and the reduction of poverty. | | | The amount of trade-related technical assistance and capacity building — to help developing and least-developed countries to participate more efficiently in international trade — has increased by 50% since the Doha Ministerial Declaration in November 2001, according to a joint report by the WTO and the OECD. |
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http://www.oecd.org/topic/0,2686,en_2649_37413_1_1_1_1_37413,00.html
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| | African Studies Center Africa: Development |
| | The African Development Foundation is established by the US Congress as a federal agency and a public corporation to promote broad-based, sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa. | | | The main organ of ECA is the Conference of Ministers responsible for Economic Development and Planning supported by the Technical Preparatory Committee of the Whole (TEPCOW). | | | World Bank project resources on Africa in areas of: gender, poverty, human development, AIDS/HIV, finance, education, and the Internet. |
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http://www.africa.upenn.edu/About_African/ww_dev.html
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| | Africa Development - Africa Economy |
| | Has a Development Co-operation component; most of its publications must be purchased. | | | The IFC is "the largest multilateral source of loan and equity financing for private sector projects in the developing world." Assists small and medium African business. | | | Publishes a quarterly, Debt and Development in Africa. |
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http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/devel.html
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| | United Nations Statistics Division - Millennium Indicators |
| | Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system. | | | Proportion of total developed country imports (by value and excluding arms) from developing countries and from LDCs, admitted free of duty (UNCTAD, WTO, WB) | | | Includes: tariff and quota-free access for least developed countries' exports; enhanced programme of debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) and cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous ODA for countries committed to poverty reduction |
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http://millenniumindicators.un.org/unsd/mi/mi_goals.asp
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| | EUROPA - Development - Homepage |
| | DG Development mandate is to enhance the development policies in all developing countries world-wide. | | | The Cotonou Agreement provides the framework for a 20-year partnership for development aid to 77 ACP countries, funded mainly by the European Development Fund. | | | The package makes proposals in the areas of Finance for development, Coherence for Development and Focus on Africa |
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http://europa.eu.int/comm/development/index_en.htm
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| | Software Development>www.sdmagazine.com |
| | Ada is another language that has benefitted from grassroots-level development. | | | Software Development interviews Annrái O'Toole, CEO of Cape Clear, on service-oriented architectures, the enterprise service bus and open standards. | | | Yahoo reports revenues were up more than a third in the fourth quarter, but its profits failed to meet Wall Street expectations and shares fell in after-hours trading. |
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http://www.sdmagazine.com
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| | Global Development Network: Generating, sharing and applying knowledge for development |
| | The two-day conference will examine the crucial role of institutions in the development process. | | | ‘Institutions and Development: At the Nexus of Global Change,’ GDN's annual conference will be held in St. Petersburg, Russia from January 19-21, 2006. | | | The winners will present their papers/ projects at the Seventh Annual Global Development Conference in St. Petersburg, Russia in January 2006. |
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http://www.gdnet.org
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| | The Development Group for Alternative Policies |
| | Mexico has paid back its short-term debt to the United States by incurring more debt and squeezing the Mexican economy to the point of repression, said Mexican and U.S. economic analysts today. | | | News Release issued on the date of the presentation to Congress of the report of the International Financial Institutions Advisory Commission on the future of the IFIs | | | The Development GAP replies to Jim Wolfensohn in the Financial Times |
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http://www.developmentgap.org
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| | IDA - Background |
| | The International Development Association (IDA) is the part of the World Bank that helps the earth’s poorest countries reduce poverty by providing interest-free loans and some grants for programs aimed at boosting economic growth and improving living conditions. | | | IDA funds help these countries deal with the complex challenges they face in striving to meet the Millennium Development Goals. | | | The World's Fund to Help the Poorest People |
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http://www.worldbank.org/ida
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| | Welcome to the International Institute for Sustainable Development |
| | These seven country scoping studies set out to provide a preliminary overview of ecosystem services in each country and the corresponding issues of well-being related to the availability of these services. | | | IISD's Climate Change and Energy Team looks at some of the key issues in developing an effective climate regime after the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. | | | László Pintér, Director of IISD's Measurement and Assessment program presented a paper entitled "Indicators for Sustainable Development: Proposal for a Way Forward" at the United Nations Division for Sustainable Development Expert Group Meeting, December 13-15, 2005, in New York. |
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http://www.iisd.org
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| | Asian Development Bank (ADB) - Fighting Poverty in Asia and the Pacific - ADB.org |
| | He told delegates that the region recognizes there will be serious global environmental and economic consequences if a business as usual approach is taken that steadily increases the consumption of fossil fuel-based energy. | | | A clearinghouse of information on regional cooperation and integration focusing on infrastructure and software, trade and investment, money and finance, and regional public goods. | | | Policy Reform in Indonesia and the Asian Development Bank's Financial Sector Governance Reforms Program Loan |
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http://www.adb.org
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| | Dev Shed Forums - Programming Help and Tutorials for all development technologies |
| | Javascript Development forum discussing Javascript and DHTML, AJAX, as well as issues such as coding cross-browser Javascript. | | | Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) forum discussing all levels of CSS, including CSS1, CSS2 and CSS Positioning. | | | XML Programming forum discussing XML and related technologies, including XUL and XSL. |
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http://forums.devshed.com
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| | Overseas Development Institute homepage |
| | To mark the publication of this new book, the meeting will examine the likely impact of trade liberalisation and the Doha Round on individual countries, focusing on poverty. | | | Prepared for the OECD DAC Network on Governance, the paper reviews the current situation in bilateral and multilateral agencies, and identifies a number of forward looking recommendations. | | | Lunchtime Meeting: Poverty and The WTO: Impacts of the Doha Development Agenda |
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http://www.odi.org.uk
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| | Institute of Development Studies - research and teaching on international development |
| | User fees for health services in developing countries are widespread, despite growing opposition. | | | IDS Fellow, Christopher Stevens argues that despite the lack of progress at the recent WTO meeting in Hong Kong, 2006 will be a crucial year for negotiating a fair deal for developing countries on trade More>> | | | New key issues guide on health care user fees |
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http://www.ids.ac.uk
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| | Intranet Development Software and Features from Intranet Journal |
| | Is AJAX simply a development technique that combines "Asynchronous JavaScript + XML," or can AJAX include something else, such as "Asynchronous Java + XML?" | | | See how converging your traditional voice and data networks can save money and increase efficiency and productivity. | | | Can Alfresco do for enterprise content repositories what Apache did for Web servers? |
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http://www.intranetjournal.com/dev
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| | Policy Development: Improving Social Policy and Strengthening NGOs |
| | Policy Development is also helping NEON plan increased institutional capacity that is needed to keep pace with additional programmatic activities. | | | Tracking developments in Corporate Social Responsibility, Philanthropy, and Social Sector Reform, the Social Edge Policy Portal considers the social impact implications of policy and decision-making. | | | A non-profit, mission-driven organization, Policy Development brings the first-hand experience of direct service organizations to high-level policy debate, while bringing greater policy awareness to direct service program planning. |
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http://www.policydevelopment.org
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| | DevX |
| | StAX (the Streaming API for XML) is a memory-efficient, simple, and convenient way to process XML while retaining control over the parsing and writing process. | | | Microsoft: XML Onboard--The Developer Potential of Office 12 for Commercial Enterprise Software | | | Do customers care that SourceForge Enterprise isn't open source? |
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http://www.devx.com
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| | Design and Development for Internet and Software Solutions |
| | Our development process is a business tool to enable small or large businesses to grow and plan for the future. | | | They need agile applications allowing them to quickly transform operations to meet the needs of preferred clients or business partners. | | | Design and Development for Internet and Software Solutions |
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http://www.solutionconscious.com
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| | Data |
| | The Bank’s annual compendium of economic, social, environmental, business, and technology indicators, the WDI, reports that only 33 countries are on track to reach the 2015 goal of reducing child mortality by two-thirds from its 1990 level. | | | The World Bank offers technical assistance to member countries in need to create an adequate statistical base for the analysis of economic, financial and social developments necessary to guide policy making. | | | The Millennium Development Goalsset targets for reductions in poverty, improvements in health and education and protection of the environment. |
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http://www.worldbank.org/data
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| | Developer.com: An EarthWeb site |
| | Developing J2EE Applications Using Hibernate Annotations and Spring MVC | | | Whitepaper: CFO's Rising to the Challenge of Performance Management--This paper summarizes the results of the IBM Business Consulting Services CFO Survey and presents a set of best practices. | | | The great thing about this category is that, unlike the tools or some of the more specific categories, development utility of the year can encompass many options, large and small, from any source. |
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http://www.developer.com
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| | International Finance Corporation - IFC Home |
| | IFC's SouthAsia Enterprise Development Facility helps Bangladesh's financial institutions find profitable ways to provide funding to small and midsized companies. | | | Major challenges remain on macroeconomic stability, corporate governance, and environmental and social issues. | | | This winter edition of Outcomes highlights how IFC’s is using regulatory reform to strengthen the private sector in developing countries more |
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http://www.ifc.org
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| | Caribbean Export Development Agency Home Page |
| | The financial assistance of this Competitiveness Grant Fund will be provided under the 9th EDF Caribbean Trade and Private Sector Development Programme of the European Communities. | | | Caribbean Export invites proposals for activities to increase the competitiveness of groups of firms in any Cariforum country or at a regional level. | | | The deadline for submission of proposal for this first call is February 24th 2006 at 4.00 p.m. |
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http://www.carib-export.com
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| | MIGA - Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency |
| | Talk about a "win-win" situation: a small telecom company seizes on an opportunity to step into a perfect business void, developing a broadband network where none exists, and where customer demand is on the rise. | | | MIGA is a multilateral risk mitigator, promoting foreign direct investment into developing countries by | | | Antigua and Barbuda Becomes 166th Member of MIGA - Press Release, September 27 |
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http://www.miga.org
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| | The Communication Initiative - Communication Interventions for Sustainable Development |
| | It is part of a Department for International Development (DFID) effort to improve the quality and impact of government and media relations and media effectiveness in serving the economically poor, worldwide. | | | The Media in Governance - A Guide to Assistance: Developing Free and Effective Media to Serve the Interests of the Poor | | | This free guidance paper is designed to help governments and development agencies decide whether - and how - to support the development of the media in economically depressed areas. |
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http://www.comminit.com
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| | Computerworld Development |
| | Are you wondering whether investments in best practice processes and tools will really pay off? | | | > Development XML Feed > XML Feed FAQ | | | Read up on the latest ideas and technologies from companies that sell hardware, software and services. |
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http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/development
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| | Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) |
| | Deadline for submitting a proposal is October 21, 2004. | | | Meeting our global responsibilities:Budget 2005 & the Canadian International Development Agency | | | Interested in increasing Canadian public awareness of international development? |
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http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/index-e.htm
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| | ei: Development |
| | EI's Development section offers news and reports about the status of key development issues on the ground and the work of international and local aid agencies. | | | Please enable Javascript in your browser and reload this page. | | | Jerusalem voters mount pressure on PA and Israel to allow free elections |
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http://electronicintifada.net/v2/developmentwire.shtml
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| | The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Group |
| | The Board of Executive Directors of The Islamic Development Bank, which concluded its 234th session at the Bank's Headquarters approved more than US$ 942,8 million towards project financing and trade operations. | | | Welcome to the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Group, a multilateral development financing institution, established to foster social and economic development of it's | | | The Islamic Development Bank conducts a regional vision workshop for member countries in Africa |
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http://www.isdb.org
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| | Apple Developer Connection |
| | Your customers will be looking for products that are Universal. | | | Online and retail channel programs to help you reach Mac customers worldwide. | | | Services to help cost-effectively develop, test and support your Mac products. |
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http://developer.apple.com
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| | Section 508: The Road to Accessibility |
| | THE NEW BUY ACCESSIBLE DATA CENTER is now available FOR VENDORS to register, manage their accounts and register their products and services at http://emgbaw.altarum.org/bad/. | | | GOVERNMENT PURCHASING AND PROCUREMENT OFFICIALS should refer to the Buy Accessible Wizard to conduct your market research, such as to locate products and services that support your requirements development and procurement selection processes. | | | This is also the web-based tool to help users determine and document Section 508 requirements that apply to a particular E&IT acquisition. |
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http://www.section508.gov
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| | UNCTAD.ORG >> Home |
| | A meeting on capacity building in foreign direct investment (Geneva, 12-14 December) addressed these issues. | | | Public-private Sector Dialogue on Responsible Competitiveness: Enhancing Enterprise Development through Responsible Business Practices, Geneva | | | 16 December - Many developing countries have limited capacity to collect and compile reliable investment data - a major obstacle when defining investment policies. |
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http://www.unctad.org
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| | Ohio Department of Development |
| | Working with communities and businesses, the Department of Development promotes economic opportunities to improve the profits and prosperity of Ohio's citizens. | | | © 2004 State of Ohio Department of Development. |
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http://www.odod.state.oh.us
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| | Millennium Campaign |
| | Highlighting the role of parliaments in relation to MDGs, poverty alleviation and the financing of development the publication is useful for anyone working with parliamentarians. | | | An initiative of the United Nations, the Campaign supports citizens’ efforts to hold their government to account for the Millennium promise. | | | A new report entitled “Engaging Parliaments in the Millennium Development Goals: a key part of National MDG strategies” aims to promote the Millennium Goals among Vietnamese MPs. |
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http://www.millenniumcampaign.org
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| | UNDP United Nations Development Programme |
| | With the nomination deadline extended to 20 January, companies and business associations around the world have an extra few weeks to enter projects for the 2006 World Business Awards in support of the Millennium Development Goals. | | | United Nations, New York, 29 December — Kofi Annan has appointed three UNDP regional directors: Gilbert Fossoun Houngbo of Togo (Regional Bureau for Africa), Amat Al Aleem Ali Alsoswa of Yemen (Arab States) and Rebeca Grynspan of Costa Rica (Latin America and the Caribbean). |
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http://www.undp.org
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| | UN Millennium Project © 2005 Homepage |
| | The final Summit outcome document provided a global endorsement of the Millennium Development Goals, and built on the major international agreements of recent years, including: | | | the 2002 International Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico | | | By outlining practical investment strategies and approaches to financing them, the report presents an operational framework that will allow even the poorest countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. |
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http://www.unmillenniumproject.org
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| | Link Building Strategies - Eric Ward |
| | My 90 minute session will include a Competitive Link Audit and a Strategy Report created just for your site. | | | $500 Link Development Strategy Session and Competitive Link Audit from Eric Ward | | | I offer several types of link building and link development training services, from one-to-one to group sessions, in-person and web based. |
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http://www.ericward.com
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| | Development |
| | tackles the hard hitting issues of today, listening to the oppositional voices and bringing in local and innovative perspectives from the margins to the global development discourse. | | | Launched in 1957, Development, is the flagship journal of the Society for International Development. | | | Volume 45.4 – Creating Global Communication: Development and the New Information and Communication Strategies. |
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http://www.sidint.org/publications/development.htm
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| | development: OpenOffice.org for Developers |
| | More and more companies and individuals are integrating OpenOffice.org, or OpenOffice.org derivatives like StarOffice into their products and solutions. | | | Also more and more developers are creating new add-ons for OpenOffice.org by using the SDK. | | | Created and hosted by Erwin Tenhumberg and Cristian Driga with the help of other community members, the survey is designed to give the Community a better understanding of its developer members. |
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http://development.openoffice.org
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| | Debian Developers' Corner |
| | Note that the old Packaging Manual has mostly been integrated into the recent versions of the Policy Manual. | | | Using the database, you can see the list of project machines, get any developer's GPG key, change your password or learn how to set up mail forwarding for your Debian account. | | | The Debian Project consists of volunteers, and we are generally looking for new developers who have some technical knowledge, an interest in free software, and some free time. |
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http://www.us.debian.org/devel
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| | Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) - home page |
| | "Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization" describes the social, technical, financial, and legal and policy factors relevant to developing a customized business case for Web accessibility for a specific organization. | | | It leads to more effective accessibility solutions, developed more efficiently. | | | Including people with disabilities in the Web development process helps to understand the "why" behind accessibility. |
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http://www.w3.org/WAI
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| | World Institute on Disability - Home Page |
| | Blind since birth, Martinez, 47, is an internationally recognized disability rights leader specializing in employment, asset building, independent living, international development, diversity and gender issues. | | | She is one of 15 Presidentially appointed members of the National Council on Disability, an independent federal agency, and has just been appointed one of eight public members on the State Department's Committee on Disability and Foreign Policy. | | | In 2004-2005 Martinez gave testimony and presentations to the U.S. Congress, the UN Committee on a disability rights convention, business leadership groups, diversity officers at Fortune 500 companies, a National Organization on Women's conference, disabled students, asset development specialists and independent living leaders. |
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http://www.wid.org
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