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    Whose miracle?: how China's workers are paying the price for its economic boom

    International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 2005
    This report examines the rapid economic growth of China, and argues that this boom could only occur on the backs of the people it was supposed to benefit.
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    Rural and urban dynamics and poverty: evidence from China and India

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005
    In this paper, the authors examine the history of the relationship between the rural and urban sectors in China and India, including the development of policies that influenced this relationship and their impact on poverty in China and India.
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    Environmental policy and the location of foreign direct investment in China

    China Center for Economic Research, Beijing, 2005
    Since the inception of market orientated reforms in 1978, China has emerged as a major recipient of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Recent studies suggest that environmental regulations are an important factor in an investor’s choice of location. This is in accordance with the ‘pollution haven hypothesis’, which states that firms will set up in regions with relaxed environmental standards.
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    Stitched up! How those imposing unfair competition in the textiles and clothing industries are the only winners in this race to the bottom

    International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 2005
    This report tracks the short-term impacts of the ending of the Multifibre agreement, with a focus on six countries: the Philippines, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Lesotho and Kenya.
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    A briefing paper for DFID: update on China and India and access to medicines

    DFID Health Resource Centre (HRC), 2005
    This paper, from the DFID Health Resource Centre, examines how Intellectual Property (IP) agreements impact upon the pharmaceutical sector in China and India, and how this in turn affects access to medicines.
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    Does privatisation of plantations help poor people?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Forest plantations have many benefits. They provide wood and other forest products, contribute to biodiversity, improve landscapes and soils, play an important role in absorbing carbon and help to maintain water quality. Local and national economies also benefit as plantations provide employment, infrastructure and opportunities for small-scale enterprises.
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    Paying its way: can tourism generate funds for protected areas?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Tourism is continuing to grow rapidly. Regions in developing countries with high levels of biodiversity are seeing the greatest growth. Protected areas are increasingly attractive to tourists and some conservation areas, traditionally supported by government funding, are raising significant income through tourism.
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    The GM decision-making process: who decides?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Genetically modified (GM) crops are legally grown in over 17 countries worldwide. Three of the world’s five largest GM producers – Argentina, China and Brazil – are developing countries (the other two are USA and Canada). How do governments in developing countries make decisions concerning GM crops and who has access to these decision-makers?
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    Migrants lack information on UK banks’ remittance services

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Money sent by migrants to their families is the second largest financial flow to the developing world, after foreign direct investment. However, there is little information on remittance products and services available to migrants.  A new project ‘Sending Money Home?’ based in the UK, aims to fill this gap and make money transfers easier for those on a low income.
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    BRIDGE Report 68: Twenty Key Gender Websites in Chinese

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    What are the key gender websites in Chinese? This paper provides an initial selection of twenty sites, made by Beijing gender activist and journalist Feng Yuan. These include official, academic and activist sites from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong and the Chinese diaspora.

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