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Intellectual property rights and globalization: implications for developing countries
Center for International Development, Harvard University, 1999Reviews the implications of the agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) under the World Trade Organization (WTO). It focuses on the national implemention of the TRIPS agreement, technological development, plant variety protection, geopgraphical indications, and biological diversity and the associated indigenous knowledge.DocumentReaching out to children in poverty. The integrated child development servicesin Tamil Nadu, (ICDS)
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2000Programme has been offering a package of of services related to human resource development - health , nutrition, and education - for children, adolescent girls and and women.DocumentHuman resources in agricultural and rural development
Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2001Papers on several main developments and issues that either persist or are emerging in the area of human resources for agricultural and rural development.DocumentGrandmothers and granddaughters: old age pension and intra-household allocation in South Africa
National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2000This paper studies whether the impact of a cash transfer on child nutritional status is affected by the gender of its recipient. In the early 1990's, the benefits and coverage of the South African social pension program were expanded for the black population.DocumentWorld food aid needs: assessment and availabilities
Economics, Statistics and Market Information System, USDA Economics and Statistics System, 1999This full-text report is a study of world food aid needs, defined as amount of grain needed to fill the gap between what a country can produce plus its financial capacity to import commercially, and a targeted consumption level including emergency needs.DocumentGlobal hunger and food security after the World Food Summit (ODI)
Overseas Development Institute, 1999DocumentEstimated Mean per Capita Energy Requirements for Planning Emergency Food Aid Rations
National Academies Press, 1995DocumentEmpowering the rural disabled in Asia and the Pacific
People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions, 1997Asia and Pacific countries have designated 1993-2002 the "Decade for the Disabled" - ten years to raise awareness of the problems of millions of disabled men, women and children. Report is based on papers presented at a recent FAO Round Table on the Integration of Disabled People in Agricultural and Agro-industry Systems, held in Bangkok.DocumentIn sickness and in health... : risk-sharing within households in rural Ethiopia
Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997To investigate risk-sharing within the household, we model nutritional status as a durable good and we look at the consequences of individual health shocks. For household allocation to be pareto-efficient, households should pool shocks to income. We also investigate whether households can smooth nutritional levels over time.DocumentThe consequences of past agricultural outputs on the interacting nutrition and health of autarkic peasants : evidence from Rwanda
Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997In rural areas of LDC, because of the existence of market imperfections, health and nutrition status may depend on the levels of specific agricultural productions and not only on the income level. However, these specific impacts have never been studied.Pages
