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  Agriculture and poverty in South Africa: can agriculture reduce poverty?

  Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, 2004

  Poverty and income inequality persist in South Africa despite efforts to eliminate them. Poverty is more pervasive in rural areas, particularly in the former homelands: the majority (65 percent) of the poor are found in rural areas and 78 percent of those likely to be chronically poor are also in rural areas.
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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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  Comparing maternal health services in four countries

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  While the availability and use of trained midwives can shape the quality of care received in pregnancy and childbirth, a number of other underlying health systems structures and processes are important. The management of health workforces, the mix of public and private provision and the impact of reforms affect quality of care across countries.
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  The FDI – employment link in a globalizing world: the case of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  This study analyses the evolution of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and the increasing role of transnational companies (TNCs) in the domestic economies of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico and will then in a second part outline the motivations and the different forms of FDI.
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  Leasing in development: guidelines for emerging economies

  International Finance Corporation, 2005

  Leasing is a medium-term financial instrument for the procurement of machinery, equipment, vehicles, and/or properties.
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  Capital flows and macroeconomic policy in emerging economies

  Department of Economics, Universidad de Chile, 2005

  As a consequence of the foreign capital surge experienced by a number of developing countries since the early 1990s, a debate crystallised between economists around two opposite stances.
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  Down the plughole: why bringing water into WTO services negotiations would unleash a development disaster

  ActionAid International, 2005

  Poor countries are under intense pressure in the World Trade Organization's GATS negotiations to open their service markets and "progressively liberalise" key sectors – such as water delivery – to foreign corporations.
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  Three models of social protection

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2005

  This one-pager outlines three examples of social protecion programmes in India, South Africa, Colombia and Brazil.
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  Trade and foreign direct investment in services: a review

  Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2005

  The services sector has emerged as the largest and fastest-growing sector in the world economy in the last two decades, providing more than sixty percent of global output and, in many countries, an even larger share of employment.This paper undertakes a selective review of both theoretical as well as empirical studies on trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) in services.
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  Trade liberalisation, export orientation and employment in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico

  International Institute for Labour Studies, ILO, 2005

  This study describes the trade liberalisation process as well as the general patterns of trade and export performance of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico and attempts to assess sectoral labour market impacts.

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