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Modelling the Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Women, at Work and at Home: IDS research proposal
Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998Researching the uneven impact of globalisation (mainly trade) on women and men in developing countries. It aims to construct and apply models to analyse the effects of trade liberalisation on the monetary economy, the household economy and the interactions between them.DocumentEngendering development
Gendernet, World Bank, 2000Draft Policy Research Report examines the conceptual and empirical links between gender, public policy, and development outcomes and demonstrates the value of applying a gender perspective to the design of development policies.The evidence presented shows that societies that discriminate by gender pay a high price in terms of their ability to develop and to reduce poverty.DocumentCrackdown or Pause: A Chance for Forestry Reform in Cambodia
Global Witness, 1999Brief analysis of the situation within Cambodia’s forestry sector, and a round up of information obtained during Global Witness’ investigations.DocumentThe untouchables: Forest crimes and the concessionaires - can Cambodia afford to keep them?
Global Witness, 1999An historical record of concessionaire activity in Cambodian forests since 1995, and a critique of the ADB-funded concession review carried out in late 1999.Available in Word and Text verisons and in Khmer at: http://www.fatbeehive.com/globalwitness/text/campaigns/forests/cambodia/reports.htmlDocumentAgriculture and the policy environment: Zambia and Zimbabwe: political dreams and policy nightmares
OECD Development Centre, 1992The paper examines the effect of differing policies in the post-independence period on the agricultural and overall economic performance of Zambia and Zimbabwe. It focuses on the interaction between macroeconomic and agricultural policy reforms. It shows that macro and micro reforms need to be closely linked and that both are critical to sectoral performance.DocumentPeople, Parks and Biodiversity: Issues in Population-Environment Dynamics
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995This overview paper broadly addresses the complex relationship between biodiversity, people and protected areas.DocumentIndustrial Reliance on Biodiversity
UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 1997Overview of the extent to which industry in the developed world relies on the biodiversity of the developing world. Primitive human societies rely almost entirely on wild species for food, draught, building materials and other products, and such direct use continues in modern society.DocumentGeneral equilibrium modelling of trade and the environment / John Beghin ...[et al.]
OECD Development Centre, 1996The environmental impacts of economic activity have become an increasingly urgent concern in both OECD Member countries, as well as in non-Member countries. Research in this area is still in its infancy, and the data required to buttress analytical studies is still sparse.DocumentTraditional forest-related knowledge and the Convention on Biological Diversity
Convention on Biological Diversity, 1996DocumentSkill, trade, and international inequality
Institute of Development Studies UK, 1996Heckscher-Ohlin trade theory suggests that greater openness tends to enlarge inter-country differences in stocks of skill (or human capital), which new growth theory suggests would cause inter-country divergence of per-capita incomes.Pages
