[PDF] Top 20 Bahamas joint annual report 2003

... The Bahamas an attractive location in tourism, financial services, and other services, as well as in other focused industries that could contribute to diversification of the economy in a liberalised trade ... See full document

... December 2003, should provide the appropriate forum to discuss issues of concern, such as enhancing good governance (including budgetary transparency), commitment to poverty reduction and engagement of NSAs in the ... See full document

... There are however other elements distorting equity (or with the potential to distort equity in future) in the health sector: health centers circumventing exemption policies; elite departments being set up in the ... See full document

... 4.1.2 8th EDF-NIP € 7 million - Focal Sector 1: Human Resources Development Expansion of the Barbados Language Centre (EUR 3.95 million): The programme aims at the improvement of the quality of human resources in ... See full document

... in 2003 a second successful business forum in Port Vila aiming principally at bringing together Government and Private sector and thus create conditions that would facilitate the kick-start of the stagnant ... See full document

... Assessment Report. One of the priority thematic areas identified by the 1998-2003 National Poverty Elimination and Action Plan was that of undertaking interventions that support economic growth and income ... See full document

... To improve the economic performance, Tonga’s government set up a Strategic Development Plan 2001-2003, the objectives of which are to accomplish a stable economic and financial environment with less public and ... See full document

... The review has however stressed on some areas, where progress has been slow thus undermining the objective of quality improvement. For instance, the number of teachers recruited (9000 against 11651) has been inadequate ... See full document

... Tuvalu currently carries little external debt, only in the form of concessionary loans from the ADB, which partially endowed the Falekaupule Trust Fund (US$4 million, the first and second tranches were released in 1999 ... See full document

... Education is the government’s top priority. It has received the highest allocation in the national budget in the past years and this is again the case for the 2004 budget, which allocates 18.5% (up from 17% in ... See full document

... 11 projects are fully addressed. The reception and palletisation centre (RAPCEN) at Langley Park, is now playing an active role in an effort to improve post harvest handling of banana (and other agricultural) produce. A ... See full document

... May 2003 a Caribbean regional programme from a budget line B7-701 (Human Rights Development) to further restrict the implementation of the death penalty in the Commonwealth Caribbean, with a view to its eventual ... See full document

... Project 8 ACP PNG 005 – Eco-Forestry Programme: Six types of schemes were explored and designed although they were not “ground-truthed” in 2003. These schemes are Walindi (small community-based enterprises ... See full document

... According to the UNDP Human Development Report for 2003, St. Kitts and Nevis is ranked 51 among 175 countries on the basis of adult literacy, school enrollment, life expectancy at birth, and per capita ... See full document

... Joint Annual Report 2003 European Commission/ Republic of the Marshall Islands 1 Executive Summary Article 5, Annex IV of the Cotonou Agreement requires that the National Authorising Officer and Head[.] ... See full document

... Government of Sierra Leone European Union *** * * ** ** *** Cooperation between the European Union and the Republic of Sierra Leone Final Joint Annual Report 2003 Freetown, February 2005 Sierra Leone[.] ... See full document

... The Government of the Cook Islands has stated that the removal of the Cook Islands from the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) listing of the Cook Islands as a non-cooperative country is of the highest priority and its ... See full document

... The EC approved in May 2003 €1.1 million in favour of Penal Reform International (UK) from a budget line B7-701 (Human Rights Development) to further restrict the implementation of the death penalty in the ... See full document

... In 2003 priority was given to improving coordination in the social sector and implementing specially identified programmes to target highly vulnerable ...In 2003 this Committee (i) reviewed a number of on- ... See full document

... and on to 2001. This is well within the international standards (FTI benchmark is 40:1). However, the ratio varies considerably (high ratios of 1:45/70) depending on the school’s location. As for gender parity, ... See full document