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    The impact of globalisation and liberalisation on agriculture and small farmers in developing countries: the case of the Philippines

    Third World Network, 2006
    This report uses case studies from the Philippines’ vegetable and poultry sector to illustrate the social effects of globalisation and trade liberalisation on rural producers, and on the International Fund for Agricultural Development’s (IFAD’s) involvement in the Cordillera Highland Agricultural Resource Management (CHARM) project.The authors find that trade liberalisation has increased import
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    Corporate governance: observance of standards and codes

    World Bank, 2006
    As part of the Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC) programme by the World Bank and IMF, this internet resource brings together country by country implementation assessments. The goal of the ROSC initiative is to identify weaknesses that may contribute to a country’s economic and financial vulnerability.
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    Making city growth work for poor people

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Do poor people benefit from urban economic growth and if so, how? Conventional theory suggests that almost everyone should gain from economic growth. Eventually that growth should trickle down even to very poor people. In practice, however, the process has brought mixed results. The relationship between growth and poverty reduction is more complex.
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    CDM country guides

    Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan, 2006
    Many developing countries are faced with a lack of consolidated information on the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), and this information has never been put together before in a comprehensive form.
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    Child domestic labour in South-East and East Asia: emerging good practices to combat it

    International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2006
    This report explores the recent situation of child domestic labour in the South-East and East Asia and the actions that are being taken to combat it in the region.Part I of the report provides an overview of child domestic labour in the region, based on existing publications and documentation.
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    Children and household savings in the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2006
    Understanding the role of children and family size on household savings behaviour is an important step in understanding the relationship between poverty, vulnerability and family size.Household savings are important indicators of family welfare on a number of levels including investment and income generation prospects and the protection these savings provide from income shortfalls.
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    Fighting illegal activities in Asian forests

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Logging is only one of many illegal activities in South-East Asia’s forests. There are further activities that should be considered illegal because they create human insecurity and threaten sustainable forest management. The complexity of these activities, which always involve poor people, poses a challenge to effective preventative policies.
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    International nurse mobility: trends and policy implications

    World Health Organization, 2003
    This report from the World Health Organization (WHO) examines the trends and policy implications of nurses moving from the developing world to work in wealthier countries.
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    Linking aid assistance to poverty reduction in middle-income countries

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Six hundred million of the world’s poorest people, surviving on less than US$2 a day, live in middle-income countries (MICs). In 2002, the European Commission and European Union member states provided nearly a third of its development assistance to these countries. But how much of this aid is focused on poverty reduction?
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    Powering the MDGs: development targets unattainable without energy

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    A third of humanity – some 2.4 billion people – still rely on biomass (wood, charcoal or dung) as their primary source of energy.  1.6 billion people have no access to electricity. Without major improvements in the quality and quantity of energy services in developing countries the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will not be achieved.

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