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Carbon in Drylands: Desertification, Climate Change and Carbon Finance a Unep-undp-unccd Technical Note for Prepared on Behalf of Unep by Unep-wcmc Technical Note: Carbon in Drylands -desertification, Climate Change and Carbon Finance

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After attending the sarcoma session of the 1990 meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology, one might be forgiven for wondering if chemotherapy for metastatic soft tissue sarcoma (STS) has come a full circle. It is 18 years since the South West Oncology Group (SWOG) published results of the first large scale study of doxorubicin (ADR) (O'Bryan et al., 1973). In 45 evaluable patients ...

The Malaysian Private Finance Initiative and Value for Money

The concept of value for money (VFM) is the fundamental reason for most PFI projects to be attractive in many developed and developing countries. The concept encourages governments to deliver Mega projects by using PFI procurement method. The aims of this paper are to investigate the notion of VFM for PFI projects by different countries (i.e. UK, Australia and Japan) and to discover the detaile...

The Acceptability of Private Finance Initiative (PFI) Scheme in Malaysia

Today’s competitive global environment has led governments around the world to seek new ways to finance projects, build infrastructure and deliver services. Private Finance Initiative (PFI) is increasingly being used as a tool to bring together the strengths of both sectors, public and private to facilitate the delivery of projects and services. However, the new PFI Scheme introduced by the Gov...