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Gender mainstreaming strategy for the China-UK HIV/AIDS prevention and care project
Siyanda, 2003International experience has demonstrated that gender must be addressed if HIV/ AIDS prevention and care is to be effective. Overall, the China-UK HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Project is moving in the right direction on gender by aiming for participation and empowerment of primary stakeholders.DocumentNeither a borrower nor a lender: does China's zero net foreign asset position make economic sense?
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2005China in the past few years has emerged as a net foreign creditor on the international scene with net foreign assets slightly greater than zero percent of wealth. This paper starts from the fact that this is surprising given that China is a relatively poor country with a capital-labour ratio about one-fifth the world average and one-tenth the U.S. level.DocumentChina's fiscal system: a work in progress
International Studies Programmme, Georgia State University, 2005This paper argues that unless China begins to tackle more systematically the serious problems that have emerged in the finances of its various systems of sub-national government, the problems caused by the current unsatisfactory system will increasingly distort resource allocation, increase distributional tensions and slow down the growth of the Chinese economy.The paper:discusses the sDocumentSocial and gender analysis in natural resource management: learning studies and lessons from Asia
International Development Research Centre, 2006This on-line book documents and reflects on the steps that researchers are taking to implement social and gender analysis, including questions of class, caste, and ethnicity, into their everyday work.DocumentAcer: company profile
Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2005The company profile on Acer aims to identify critical issues in Acer’s supply chain from the perspective of poverty eradication and sustainable development. In order to identify the labour issues in Acer’s supply chain, research was undertaken on the working conditions in four factories in China and one in the Philippines.DocumentProblems and policy challenges faced by commodity-dependent developing countries (CDDCs)
South Centre, 2005The objective of the paper is to provide an overview of the problems and implications of heavy dependence on primary commodities.DocumentWhen in China: encounters with Human Rights
Amnesty International, 2006This paper provides guidance for companies doing business in China on how they can best avoid human rights violations. In order to do so, it provides an overview of the Chinese economy as well as the most frequent human rights violations.DocumentChina in the international politics of climate change: a foreign policy analysis
Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2005Expected to become the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases within a few decades, China is key to the the success of global efforts to combat climate change.DocumentLancet chronic diseases 4: preventing chronic diseases in China
The Lancet, 2005This article, the fourth in the Lancet series on chronic diseases, focuses on China. It reports that chronic diseases now account for an estimated 80 per cent of deaths and 70 per cent of disability-adjusted life-years lost in China.DocumentA decade on: what is the impact of China’s TB programme?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006550 million Chinese people are infected with tuberculosis (TB). About ten percent of them may go on to develop TB disease, which kills 130,000 people annually. In 1991 the National TB Control Programme launched a ten year strategy to tackle this huge problem. How effective has it been and what are the challenges for the future?Pages