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  Availability, access and usability of land for urban agriculture

  RUAF Urban Agriculture Magazine, 2003

  The report by the Urban Agriculture Magazine draws on numerous case studies from around the world in discussing issues of availability, access and usability of land for urban agriculture.Rapid urbanisation has lead to an increasing demand for urban agricultural land.
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  Unemployment, Poverty and Gender in Urban China: Perceptions and Experiences of Laid Off Workers in Three Chinese Cities

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2000

  Economic reform in China in the 1990s has resulted in large numbers of workers being laid off from state-owned enterprises, particularly women and workers aged over forty. These people have moved from a position of relative privilege, with secure and well-respected jobs with good benefits, to a situation of unemployment, accompanied by loss of status and sometimes poverty.
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  China and South Asia: core interests and policies and their impact on the regional countries (a Nepalese perspective)

  Institute of Foreign Affairs, Nepal, 2003

  This paper aims to understand the impact of China’s increasing economic and military influence within the context of South Asia. China’s determined and sustained economic growth since the 1990s has not been reciprocated by its neighbours in South Asia, and this paper examines the possible causes why.
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  Attracting investment to China

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2003

  This paper examines China's progress to date in attracting foreign investment and in moving towards a more rules-based business environment.Highlights of the paper include:China has made significant progress in providing a business environment conducive to foreign direct investment (FDI) since the major shift to economic reform in 1978FDI has enabled China to establish new branches
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  Fifty years of regional inequality in China: a journey through central planning, reform, and openness

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This study makes an attempt at understanding the driving forces behind the changes in China’s regional inequality. It constructs and analyses a long-run time-series for regional inequality in China from the Communist Revolution to the present.
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  US monopoly on information technology triggers East Asian backlash

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Vigorous protection of intellectual property rights has become an important means of preserving a competitive advantage in international trade. Under pressure from the US, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has used the agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) to force the world to conform to US policy in this area.
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  The Interaction of the Alternative Website and Mass Media In China: Case Study of www.stopdv.org.cn (Symposium on Gender and ICT, Amsterdam, Jan 17, 2003)

  BRIDGE, 2003

  The 'stop domestic violence' website was set up in 2001 by the Chinese Law Society as part of the project Domestic Violence in China: Research, Intervention and Prevention. Currently only a tiny percentage of the Chinese population has access to Internet. Therefore this website focused on mass media as an important target group through which to reach the public more broadly.
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  Reducing maternal mortality: learning from Bolivia, China, Egypt, Honduras, Indonesia, Jamaica, and Zimbabwe

  World Bank, 2003

  This study, produced by the World Bank, reviews case studies of maternal health programmes in Bolivia, China, Egypt, Honduras, Indonesia, Jamaica and Zimbabwe. Research was prompted by the question of whether current programme strategies could reduce maternal mortality more quickly than the decades required in the historically successful countries of Malaysia and Sri Lanka.
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  Facilitating conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity

  Convention on Biological Diversity, 2003

  Science and technology have long been recognised as essential driving forces in the development process.
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  The role of education in promoting young people’s sexual and reproductive health

  Centre for Sexual Health Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, 2002

  This document outlines discussions from the Expert meeting for the Safe Passages to Adulthood programme, where researchers, practitioners and policy makers explored the potential of education to protect against HIV/AIDS, as well as the possible changes needed to enable the education system to respond more adequately.

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