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  Globalisation, urbanisation and changing food systems in developing countries

  Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2004

  As part of the FAO ‘State of Food Insecurity in the World 2004’, this chapter explores how the profound demographic and economic changes are rapidly transforming food systems and the scope and nature of nutritional challenges in the developing world.Key findings of the study include:following rapid urbanisation, rising income and rapid growth in imports of wheat and other commodities, t
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  The macroeconomic impact of remittances in Ghana

  Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four, 2004

  This paper presents Balance of Payments (BOP) estimates of private remittances for Ghana.
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  Implications of the economic rise of the PRC for ASEAN and India: trade and foreign direct investment

  Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore, 2003

  The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has been opening up its economy to the outside world in a carefully managed and phased manner since 1979.
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  Bilateral investment treaties and development policy-making

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2004

  This paper examines the impacts of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) on development-oriented policy-making.
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  Workers' remittances: an important and stable source of external development finance

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper examines the relative importance of workers’ remittances as a source of development finance in developing countries and discusses measures that industrial and developing countries could take to increase remittances.The paper first analyses trends and cycles in workers’ remittances in developing countries and compares them to other sources of foreign exchange earnings, such as exports
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  The malaria gap

  American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2001

  This article, published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, examines the diverse mechanisms through which malaria can effect long-term economic development. It explores the significant gap between estimates of the economic impact of malaria derived from microeconomic and macroeconomic studies, and considers the implications of this for resource allocation.
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  Measuring competitiveness in the world’s smallest economies: introducing the SSMECI

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2004

  This paper seeks to contribute to the process of new policy development in small states by measuring their industrial competitiveness record using a composite index and benchmarking them against each other.Because of the lack of adequate indices, the paper constructs its own small states manufactured export competitiveness index (SSMECI), based on three subcomponents, namely manufactured export
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  South-South investment agreements profilerating - press release

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2004

  This document assesses recent trends in agreements on investments between developing countries.
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  Global partnerships for development: Millennium Development Goal No 8, progress report by Norway 2004

  Information from the Norwegian Government and the Ministries, 2004

  This paper examines how far Norway has come in its efforts to reach the seven targets of the eighth Millennium Development Goal (MDG), and target 9 of the seventh MDG.
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  Behind the shine : the other Shell Report 2003

  Friends of the Earth International, 2003

  Based on evidence from people around the world who live in the shadows of Shell’s various operations, this report assesses the company’s performance. It finds that Shells performs poorly as a leading corporate social responsibility advocate. In addition, the report highlights that Shell failed to address the concerns of Shell fenceline communities.

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