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  Real wages and the demand for skilled and unskilled male labour in Ghana's manufacturing sector : 1991-1995

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997

  Real wage rates in Ghana have fallen substantially over the last twenty years. In this paper survey data for the years 1991-1996 is used to assess whether this fall has continued in the 1990s.
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  Rates of return on physical and human capital in Africa's manufacturing sector

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998

  In this paper two sets of issues are addressed using panel data from the manufacturing sector of five African countries. First, how high are the returns to human relative to physical capital. Second, what is the relative importance of technology and endowments of human and physical capital in determining differences in earnings and productivity across the countries.
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  NAFTA Supplemental Agreements: Four Year Review

  Institute for International Economics, USA, 1998

  Examines the objectives and accomplishments to date of the NAAEC and the NAALC.1 It also includes a discussion of the USA-Mexico Border Environmental Cooperation Agreement (BECA) which was designed to address environmental infrastructure problems in the US-Mexican border region.
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  Financial Flows and the Environmental Strategy in Indonesia in the 1990s

  World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 1998

  Examination of the rises and falls in international public financial flows to Indonesia; the re-emergence of the International Monetary Fund as a major investor in the economy; and a proposed agenda for Indonesia's environmental movement.
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  Who owns the ecosystem?

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999

  Paper is about how human society organizes its proprietary relationship to the biosphere and, in particular, the property implications of ecosystem management. Our premise is that ecosystem management is endangered by its "bigger-is-better" bias, the potential source of public backlash among landowners.
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  The economics of biosafety: implications for biotechnology in developing countries

  The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 1998

  There is a growing body of literature on the safe use of biotechnology and the need for an international biosafety protocol and national regulations to facilitate the safe development and transfer of biotechnology. Most of these studies, however, address the issue of biosafety from a scientific, legal, environmental and organizational perspective.
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  Assessing the economic impacts of integrated pest management: lessons from the past, directions for the future

  The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 1998

  Paper reviews the literature assessing the economic impacts of integrated pest management (IPM). Definitions of IPM are categorized as input- or outcome-oriented, and an outcome- oriented definition is recommended for public program assessment. The literature on economic impact assessment of IPM is divided according to focus on expected profit, profitability risk, environment, and health.
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  Tree Conservation Information Service

  UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 1999

  Data on over 7000 tree species of global conservation concern, including IUCN red list category and supporting information, gathered using many sources: literature, journals, floras and most importantly contributions from over 300 botanists. The database is being continually updated.
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  Forced labour in Myanmar (Burma)

  International Labour Organization, 1998

  Report finds evidence of the pervasive use of forced labour imposed on the civilian population throughout Myanmar by the authorities and the military for portering, the construction, maintenance and servicing of military camps, other work in support of the military, work on agriculture, logging and other production projects undertaken by the authorities or the military, sometimes for the profit
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  NFTPs, Institutions, and Income Generation in Nepal: Lessons for Community Forestry [non-timber forest products]

  NepalNet, 1998

  This study documents four different institutional mechanisms that promote non-wood forest products to generate income. The objective is to highlight some of the institutional guidelines that are relevant to community forestry. The four institutional approaches documented in this paper are listed below. 1.

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