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  Lessons learnt from new initiatives in forest management for bio-diversity enrichment, poverty reduction and sustainable livelihoods: case studies from India, China, Nepal and Laos

  Eldis Document Store, 2005

  This paper draws lessons from indigenous perspectives of forest communities in India, China and Nepal which are involved in relatively new initiatives in local forest management for over-arching goals such as enrichment of bio-diversity, poverty reduction and sustainable livelihoods.
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  What might the next emerging-market financial crisis look like?

  Institute for International Economics, USA, 2005

  This paper asks the hyphothetical questions: if a financial crisis affecting a group of emerging economies were to take place sometime over the next three years, where would the crisis likely originate, how could it be transmitted to other economies, and which economies would be most affected by particular transmission or contagion mechanisms?It presents set of indicators to gauge the vulnerab
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  Organic agriculture and poverty reduction in Asia: China and India focus

  International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2005

  The primary goal of this report is to enable a better understanding of organic agriculture in Asia, particularly India and China, and to clarify how organics can serve or hinder poor, small farmers and rural communities.
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  Inequality is bad for the poor

  World Bank, 2005

  This paper takes up an issue with the view that "the only thing that really matters to reducing absolute income poverty is the rate of economic growth." The authors argue that there are a number of ways in which inequality and its evolution can exert an influence over the extent of poverty and prospects for rapid poverty reduction in the future.In reviewing the literature that suggests that gr
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  China and climate change: the role of the energy sector

  SciDev.Net, 2005

  Climate change is affecting China and China is affecting climate change. Key to the relationship are the nation's booming economy and energy sector.With several climatic zones and sensitive physical environments, China is susceptible to the effects of climate change.
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  First language first: community-based literacy programmes for minority language contexts in Asia

  Education Sector, UNESCO, 2005

  This comprehensive report is the outcome of the Regional Workshop on Mother Tongue/Bilingual Literacy Programmes for Ethnic Minorities held in Kunming, China (May 2004). This workshop presented findings from UNESCOs action research on using the mother tongue/bilingual approach in pilot literacy projects for ethnic minority communities.
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  Corporate responsibility and business success in China

  World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 2004

  This presentation pack explores why sustainability should matter to the business world in China and what individual managers can do specifically in the Chinese context. In order to do so it examines sustainable development business drivers as well as their value. Furthermore it aims at helping China’s current and future business leaders incorporate sustainable development into their mindset.
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  Qualitative enhancement and quantitative growth

  Education Sector, UNESCO, 2004

  The paper, presented at the Colloquium on Research and Higher Education Policy (Paris, 2004) begins by identifying the international and domestic drivers of current changes in China's higher education. It then touches on the national agenda and policy concerning reforms in China’s higher education since the 1990s.
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  Beyond the baseline: large scale climate friendly development

  2005

  This article investigates two cases of large scale, development-neutral projects in China and South Africa that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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  The effect of China and India's growth and trade liberalisation on poverty in Africa

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005

  Despite the fact that trade between China, India (Asian Drivers) and Africa has grown significantly since 1990, it is only recently that attention has been paid to their impact on the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa.

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