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VIC-Tour
"VIC-Tour" organizes trips and excursions throughout Kyrgyzstan.
www.polynsky.com.kg
Visionlearning: New opportunities for education
The document is a description of new educational resource for faculty and students. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Visionlearning provides high-quality science learning modules that have been shown to be more effective than traditional textbooks in teaching science.
http://www.visionlearning.com/about_us.php
VPN, Virtual Private Network
This creates a secure tunnel between the points within the VPN. Only devices with the correct "key" will be able to work within the VPN. The VPN network can be residing within a normal company LAN (Local Area Network), and/or over public networks such as Internet. VPN also allow for different sites to be connected together over Internet in save and secure way.
Violence against women
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VIEW: Harmonizing development aid
The document advocates democratizing of harmonization through allowing more civil society involvement in setting and implementing development goals. The document was prepared by Syed Muhammad Ali, 2005.

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Voices of change: The people behind EBRD's projects
‘Know your client’ is a mantra of business and banking everywhere in the world. In the EBRD’s vast region of operations, getting to know clients is the best part of jobs. In this compilation of stories about EBRD's clients, you’ll meet Slovak aluminium visionaries, the Balkan juice king, central Asian bankers who like lending to the poor and Azeri doctors-turned-dairymen. Author/s: EBRD Communications Department, June 2005.

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Volatility and Comovement in a Globalized World Economy: An Empirical Exploration
This paper analyzes the evolution of volatility and cross-country comovement in output, consumption, and investment fluctuations using two distinct datasets. Kose, Ayhan, Washington 2003.
http://www.imf.org/extern…at/longres.cfm?sk=16979.0

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Voice and Participation of Developing and Transition Countries
This is a Progress Report of the World Bank and IMF. Prepared on April 4, 2005. The authors of the report attempted to find pragmatic ways to continue to enhance Voice and Participation of all Developing and Transition Countries (DTC) in their decision making.

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Vehicle fleet characterization in Central Asia and the Caucasus
The World Bank's program on "Clean Transportation Fuels for Air Quality Improvement in Central Asia and the Caucasus" was initiated to assess the changing transport situation in the states of the former Soviet Union, and arrive at recommendations for cost-effective actions on fuel quality improvement, emissions abatment, and air quality monitoring. The program, which builds on earlier work on phasing out lead in gasoline, has three components: petroleum sector analysis, vehicle fleet analysis, and air quality management. This report sums up the vehicle fleet analysis, covering Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, 2000.

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Volunteering in Kazakhstan. 2001
Òhe main purpose of this booklet are to raise awareness of the value and contribution of volunteerism to Kazakhstan's society and economy, to identify strengths and weakness of Kazakhstan's voluntary sector, and suggest some ways in which volunteerism can be further strengthened in Kazakhstan. Prepared by the UN Volunteers Programme in Kazakhstan. 2002

Introduction, part 1

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Annex 1

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Contents, parts 1, 2

Part 2/1

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Part 3/1

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Annex 1

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Voices of the poor in Uzbekistan, 1999
This is participatory poverty assessment in Uzbekistan for the World Development report 2000/01. This study is part of a global research effort entitled Consultations with the poor. This research is about problems of poor people in Uzbekistan. Prepared by "Expert" Center for Social Research.

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Voices of the poor in Kyrgyz Republic, 1999
The participatory poverty assessment in the Kyrgyz Republic, consultations with the poor is a part of a larger 23-country study initiated by the World Bank. The study was conducted in nine sites in the three poorest region of the country: Naryn, Jalal-Abad, Talas. The study gathered information on priority problems and concerns, institutional analysis and changes in gender relations. Prepared on 1999.

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