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  On the causes and consequences of globalisation: what are the implications for the Namibian labour market?

  Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit, 2002

  What has the impact in Namibia been to recent advances in technology and movements towards trade liberalisation, which has resulted in greater intensity in the movement of goods and services as well as factors of production?
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  What has China accomplished in its first year of WTO membership?

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2002

  The role of China has become more and more prominent in the last two decades: its export rose rapidly and its economic growth increased remarkably. On the 11th December 2001 China gained the WTO membership.This paper summarises China's WTO commitments and it attempts to establish its accomplishments in its first year of WTO membership.
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  Asymmetric globalization: global markets require good global politics

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2002

  This paper documents a speech examining the two opposing views on the impact of globalisation on the poor and concludes that globalisation is not the cause, but neither is it the solution to world poverty and inequality.
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  Human traffic, human rights: redefining victim protection

  Anti-Slavery International, 2002

  This paper is a culmination of a two year research study in 10 countries by Anti-Slavery International on how to ensure that governments place victim protection at the core of their anti-trafficking policies.
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  Global Civil Society 2002

  Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London, 2002

  In this publication the authors explore the relation between global civil society and globalisation, and between global civil society and the September 11 events, from different angles. They discuss the different meanings given to the attacks, and reactions to it, from above, but especially from below.
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  Globalization, trade, and development: Some lessons from history

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2002

  Recent research in international economic history has investigated on the origins of globalisation, its causes and consequences.
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  Trade and poverty: background briefing

  Department for International Development, UK, 2002

  The reduction in barriers to international trade can increase and create incomes for the poor and provide more resources to fight poverty.This paper:describes the impact of liberalisation on household and individual income levels identifies three channels through which trade reform affects poverty, that is prices, enterprise and government revenueanalyses how policy-making decis
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  Reflections on globalisation, security and 9/11

  Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, 2002

  This working paper argues that globalisation provides a number of conceptual insights to assist understanding of the contemporary security agenda following 9/11.
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  Does globalization hurt the poor?

  World Bank, 2002

  This paper is an attempt to examine analytically and empirically the extent to which globalisation affects the poor in low- and middle-income countries.The paper begins with a description of various channels through which trade openness and financial integration may have an adverse effect on poverty.
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  Inequalities in the light of globalization

  Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, 2002

  This paper explores the relationship between rising inequality and increasing globalisation. The author asserts that whilst inequality has always existed and is not a direct consequence of globalisation, globalisation is a fundamentally flawed vehicle for development.

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