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  Trends and government policies: reducing irregular migration from China

  Global Development Network, 2005

  Since the 1980’s, an unprecedented form of Chinese migration has emerged giving rise to trafficking in human beings and irregular migration, which are at present serious human rights issues.
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  The political logic of fiscal transfers in China

  Global Development Network, 2005

  This paper examines the factors that are most influential in affecting the patterns of intergovernmental transfers in China using a set of newly released public finance data that covers all of China’s 31 provincial units for the period of 1997-99. The study indicates that the patterns of allocation of fiscal transfers between the center and the provinces follow a certain political logic.
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  Shifting strategies in the global climate negotiations

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2005

  This document focuses on four pivotal actors, which also are the four largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world: the United States, China, the European Union, and Russia.
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  Day and night at the factory: working conditions of temporary workers in the factories of Nokia and its suppliers in southern China

  Export Credit Agencies International NGO Campaign, 2005

  This report aims to summarise working conditions at Nokia’s joint venture in Dongguan and at the factories of Nokia’s subcontractors.
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  Development strategies and regional income disparities in China

  Center for Economic Research, Shandong University, China, 2005

  Since economic reforms began in 1978, China’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has grown at an average rate of 8.1% per annum. However, since 1990 the country has experienced widening disparities in income between regions.
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  Globalization and non-traditional security issues: a study of human and drug trafficking in East Asia

  Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, 2004

  One consequence of globalisation has been the increased cross-border flows of non-traditional threats. This paper focuses on illicit drug and human trafficking in China and Southeast Asian countries and examines these categories of transnational crime in the context of a globalising world.
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  Potential impacts of a warming climate on water availability in snow-dominated regions

  SciDev.Net, 2005

  Around one-sixth of the world’s population is dependant on glaciers and seasonal snow packs for their water supply. But climate change is disrupting the annual flow of water downstream from snowy mountainous regions, says this paper.
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  My Life

  Zi Teng Publications, 2005

  Sex workers are usually the object of other people's prying, but this book presents sex workers' own points of view. Zi Teng is an organization that works for the rights of women providing sexual services in the Hong Kong area, including those from the mainland.
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  An Investigative Analysis of the Labour Protection Expenses for Beijing's Women Workers

  2005

  An investigation into the cost of 'Labour protection expenses for women workers' in Beijing enterprises and public institutions reveals that such expenses per capita are higher than the 'reproductive insurance premium'.
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  Gender Blindnessand Gender Discrimination in the Law on Work-related Injuries

  2004

  Twenty years ago a woman in her seventh month of pregnancy received an electric shock during her job. Although her wound was insignificant, the fetus was diagnosed with mental retardation of a third grade level. The woman filed a request with her unit for compensation for her work-related injury but to no avail.

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