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Searching with a thematic focus on Globalisation, Governance, Poverty

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  Religion, politics and development: lessons from the lands of Islam

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2008

  What role has Islam historically played to promote or inhibit development?
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  The new social and economic order in 21st century China: can the government bring a kinder, gentler mode of development?

  Oxford University Library, 2008

  This paper addresses the new turn in China‘s development paradigm and assesses its prospects, focusing particularly on whether the government will be able to improve rural public services, and reverse the trend of growing inequality. This assessment is done through the lens of fiscal policies, the primary instrument for the government in implementing the new paradigm.
• Organisation

  Global Union Research Network (GURN)

  The GURN is a cooperation project of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC) , the Global Union Federations (GUFs), the ILO's Internat
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  Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania

  The Advanced Study of India is the only research institution in the United States dedicated to the study of contemporary India.
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  Environment, Politics and Development Group (King's College, London) (EPD)

  The EPD Group constitutes one of the largest groups of researchers working on globalisation, development and the environment in the UK.
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  The equality predicament: report on the world social situation 2005

  UN, 2005

  This report traces the trends and patterns in economic and non-economic aspects of inequality and examines their causes and consequences across and within regions and countries.
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  Gender and labour market liberalisation in Africa

  African Labour Research Network, 2004

  This report examines the liberalisation of the labour market in Africa from a gender perspective. It analyses current economic and labour policies of seven African countries to see their impact on the labour force and the organised labour movement in general, and women in particular.
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  Migration and pro-poor policy in Africa

  Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2004

  This paper reports on the findings of a survey on migration and pro-poor policy in Africa.
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  Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2002: toward pro-poor policies: aid, institutions and globalization

  Adapting to Change [The World Bank Group], 2004

  This report presents numerous papers from the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, held in June 2002, in Oslo, Norway.The report contains papers on aid, institutions and globalization, providing a general overview of links between poverty, inequality and growth.
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  Economic security for a better world

  International Labour Organization, 2004

  This report is the first attempt to measure global economic security as perceived by ordinary people and was based on detailed household and workplace surveys covering over 48,000 workers and more than 10,000 workplaces worldwide. Economic security is measured on the basis of seven forms of work-related security including income, labour markets, employment, skills, work, jobs and representation.

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