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  How social networks enable new agricultural developments in rural China

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  China’s achievements in poverty reduction are impressive, but extreme poverty is still widespread in remote rural areas. One solution is to promote new agricultural practices and technologies. This is not an easy task, as poor and marginalised people are often difficult to reach. Systems to communicate new practices and ideas are often ineffective in remote areas.
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  Behind the brand names: working conditions and labour rights in export processing zones

  International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 2004

  The report explores the realties of working conditions in export prcessing zones (EPZs). It points out that EPZs are costly in terms of the infrastructure they require, use few local inputs, and provide little or no tax revenue for their host countries.
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  Tracking progress: implementing sustainable consumption policies

  UNEP Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, 2004

  This report presents the findings of an UNEP and Consumers International (CI) global governmental survey of the status of implementation of the sustainable consumption section of the United Nations Guidelines for Consumer Protection.
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  Water management in the Yellow River Basin

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Management of China’s Yellow River Basin is at a critical stage. Decreasing water supplies, increasing demand for water and a rapidly growing economy have added new challenges to a management agenda that has traditionally focussed on flood control and irrigation development.
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  Natural resource conflict management case studies: an analysis of power, participation and protected areas

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003

  This report presents a collection of case studies which focus on processes of conflict management and resolution and the different ways and means that conflicts are addressed.
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  Shrimp farming at the cross roads

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  The growth of the shrimp industry in many developing countries has generated considerable international debate about the environmental and social costs and benefits of previous practices. Problems have been linked to poor management practices, planning and governance.
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  Implications of the economic rise of the PRC for ASEAN and India: trade and foreign direct investment

  Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore, 2003

  The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has been opening up its economy to the outside world in a carefully managed and phased manner since 1979.
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  Global reporting initiative: HIV/AIDS program

  Ford Motor Company, 2004

  This report, from the Ford Motor Company, details how the HIV/AIDS epidemic is affecting the corporation under the terms of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). The GRI is a multi-stakeholder process whose mission is to develop and disseminate globally applicable Sustainability Reporting Guidelines.
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  Influential evaluations: detailed case studies

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 2005

  This volume is intended to illustrate the potential benefits from evaluation. It presents eight case studies where evaluations were highly cost-effective and of considerable practical utility to the intended users.
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  Business groups in China compared with Korean chaebols

  School of Economics, Seoul National University, 2002

  This paper examines and compares the characteristics of business groups and non-group firms in China and Korea, focusing on relative size, ownership structure, debt structure, profitability and growth propensity.

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