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"August 2005." ; Includes bibliographical references (p. 27-29) ; Stabilization and reconstruction: a strategic requirement -- The Army misreads the future landscape -- The consequence of rapid decisive force to promote stability -- The winds of change begin to blow -- Understanding stabilization versus reconstruction -- A closer look at stabilization -- Progressive stabilization concept: the missing link -- Implications for the Army's future expeditionary force -- Army modularity: right effort aimed at the wrong target -- Shift and adjust: bring modularity on target. ; Mode of access: Internet.

The questions of how to empower the Iraqis most effectively and then progressively withdraw non-Iraqi forces from that country is one of the most important policy problems currently facing the United States. The authors seek to present the U.S. situation in Iraq in all of its complexity and ambiguity, with policy recommendations for how that withdrawal strategy might be most effectively implemented. ; "October 2005." ; Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-60). ; The questions of how to empower the Iraqis most effectively and then progressively withdraw non-Iraqi forces from that country is one of the most important policy problems currently facing the United States. The authors seek to present the U.S. situation in Iraq in all of its complexity and ambiguity, with policy recommendations for how that withdrawal strategy might be most effectively implemented. ; Mode of access: Internet.

In the last weeks of the Second World War and the following months Sweden played a crucial role in saving more than 30.000 non-Jewish and Jewish prisoners from German concentration camps, carrying them with the White Buses to Sweden. One of the mayor reasons for this action was to regain the positive relations to the Allied powers which had been seriously damaged during the first years of the war. The Jewish group counted 11-12.000 persons, mostly young women. An analysis of the treatment of these Jewish displaced persons by the Swedish authorities and the Jewish community in Stockholm from 1945 to 1950 shows that the authorities conducted their policy according to national interests and that the Jewish community was characterized by caution to keep the benevolence of the authorities. It was not considered a Swedish interest that they would stay, but after a few months the authorities, influenced among others by the Jewish Community, realized that forced repatriation was neither feasible out of humanitarian nor international political considerations. There were no restrictions for giving them medical help, but the treatment of these persons did not pay much attention to their psychic condition. One example is the use of their working power soon after their arrival in Sweden. Together with other displaced persons and refugees they became an important working power in building the Swedish welfare state, folkhemmet. Therefore, their inability to repatriate never became a problem for Sweden.

Law and policy reform provides the fulcrum to achieve sustainable economic development. Investments in economic development or social progress are unlikely to be as effective or efficient or even enduring in the absence of an optimal mix of legal, institutional, and policy structures. Indeed, law and policy reform is now an integral part of ADB's poverty reduction approaches. ADB recognizes that no one prescribed path for law and policy reform exists. Each DMC needs to devise its own architecture of reform. ADB's experience in this sector, nevertheless, suggests that there are some general principles that transcend the particular. ADB remains committed to supporting this vital nexus to development in the most informed and intelligent manner.

This report is the second in a series. The first, published in 2003, was subtitled Meeting the Challenges of Poverty Reduction. It gave an initial picture of progress towards the goals, focusing particularly on national policies for poverty reduction and on the potential for partnerships at the global level. This Report updates and extends that analysis. Using the latest data, the Report tracks each country or territory's progress in each of the MDG targets and assesses whether it will achieve that target by 2015. The results reveal a mixed picture. Some countries are evidently making good progress on the poverty target, but many seem destined to miss other important targets related to health and the environment.

This report is the second in a series. The first, published in 2003, was subtitled Meeting the Challenges of Poverty Reduction. It gave an initial picture of progress towards the goals, focusing particularly on national policies for poverty reduction and on the potential for partnerships at the global level. This Report updates and extends that analysis. Using the latest data, the Report tracks each country or territory's progress in each of the MDG targets and assesses whether it will achieve that target by 2015. The results reveal a mixed picture. Some countries are evidently making good progress on the poverty target, but many seem destined to miss other important targets related to health and the environment.

Law and policy reform provides the fulcrum to achieve sustainable economic development. Investments in economic development or social progress are unlikely to be as effective or efficient or even enduring in the absence of an optimal mix of legal, institutional, and policy structures. Indeed, law and policy reform is now an integral part of ADB's poverty reduction approaches. ADB recognizes that no one prescribed path for law and policy reform exists. Each DMC needs to devise its own architecture of reform. ADB's experience in this sector, nevertheless, suggests that there are some general principles that transcend the particular. ADB remains committed to supporting this vital nexus to development in the most informed and intelligent manner.