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International development assistance for health generates an emergent social network in which policy makers in recipient countries are connected to numerous bilateral and multilateral aid agencies and to other aid recipients. Ties in this global network are channels for the transmission of knowledge, norms and influence in addition to material resources, and policy makers in centrally situated governments receive information faster and are exposed to a more diverse range of sources and perspectives. Since diversity of perspectives improves problem-solving capacity, the structural position of aid-receiving governments in the health aid network can affect the health outcomes that those governments are able to attain. We apply a recently developed Social Network Analysis measure to health aid data for 1990-2010 to investigate the relationship between country centrality in the health aid network and improvements in child health. A generalized method of moments (GMM) analysis indicates that, controlling for the volume of health aid and other factors, higher centrality in the health aid network is associated with better child survival rates in a sample of 110 low and middle income countries.

This report is on the Anti-Corruption Standards of the International Financial Institutions.

The ESA INTEGRAL satellite, launched in October 2002, is the first astrophysical satellite of the European Space Agency ESA with Czech participation. The results of the first 7 years of investigations of various scientific targets e.g. cataclysmic variables, blazars, X-ray sources, and GRBs with the ESA INTEGRAL satellite with Czech participation are briefly presented and discussed.

"Ein Großteil der durchschnittlich 4,86 Millionen Personen, die 2005 als arbeitslos registriert waren, ist in die Arbeitsmarkt- und Sozialpolitik des 'Förderns und Forderns' einbezogen. Ein Blick über die Grenzen auf die 'beschäftigungspolitisch erfolgreichen' Länder Dänemark, Niederlande, Großbritannien und Schweden zeigt, dass dort ein weitaus geringerer Anteil der erwerbsfähigen Transferempfänger arbeitslos gemeldet ist - und bislang auch nicht in eine aktivierende Arbeitsmarkt- und Sozialpolitik einbezogen wurde." (Textauszug)