The management of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), or e-waste for short, has only fairly recently been added to the agendas of organisations responsible for waste management. Experiences around the globe have shown that the usual waste manager, the municipality, is not adequately equipped to handle this complex waste stream. Two new paradigms, however, are the principal drivers...

CAMBODIA NB: The National Indicative Programme (chapter 6) limits its scope to budget years 2005–2006. It is part of the Country Strategy Paper, which gives the framework for cooperation 2004–2006.

Country and HQ Contacts Aissata (Aida) Lo, Anita Gibson, Pat Taylor, Rebecca Levine, Erin Fleming, Alyssa Om’Iniabohs, Winnie Mwebesa, Karen Waltensperger, Eric Swedberg, Serge Raharison, Nefra Faltas, Soo Kim, Holly Blanchard, Anne Pfitzer, Tsigue Pleah, Devon Mackenzie, Bethany Arnold, Ian Moise, Aimee Dickerson Selected Health and Demographic Data for Mali Maternal mortality ratio (deaths/10...

This paper presents a general approximation method for characterizing timevarying equilibrium portfolios in a two-country dynamic general equilibrium model. The method can be easily adapted to most dynamic general equilibrium models, it applies to environments in which markets are complete or incomplete, and it can be used for models of any dimension. Moreover, the approximation provides simple...

so music must be a favourite, even therapeutic relaxation for many doctors. While immersed in the almost decadent high romanticism of Richard Strauss's music I thought of the music of one who has been described as "almost the only romantic composer left on these shores", and whose most recently premiered work had also been performed by the Welsh National Opera Orchestra and Chorus last November...

for the threat of pandemic infl uenza. He neglects the fact that most of the cases of human infection with infl uenza A (H5N1) have come from family farms in Asia, rather than the large commercial ventures. The science relating to the current subtype H6N1 is changing so rapidly that any book is out-of-date by the time it is published. The book contains 90 pages of references, mostly from the po...

The age structure of the population has changed recently, for example in 1966 46% were less than 15 and 8% over 64 whereas in 1984 the figures were 35% and 11%. Birth and death registers are complete from 1883 and I have analysed them by quinquennia. The infant mortality rate has fallen from 114 in 1945, at about which time the first community nurse was employed, to 32 in the last 5 years. Deat...

Firms increasingly rely upon external actors for their innovation process. Interaction with these actors may occur formally (i.e. through a collaboration agreement) or informally (i.e. external actors acts as sources of knowledge). This paper analyses the reasons why firms consider it to be important to develop formal and informal external linkages in the innovation process by looking at the ro...