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  China's role in Asia and the world economy: fostering stability and growth

  Forum on Debt and Development, 2003

  This book presents the proceedings of a conference on “China’s Role in Fostering Financial Stability and Growth in the Asian Region and the World Economy”.
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  How have the world’s poorest fared since the early 1980s?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2004

  This report presents new estimates of the extent of the developing world’s progress against poverty. By the frugal $1 a day standard, they find that there were 1.1 billion poor in 2001: almost 400 million fewer than 20 years earlier.Over the same period, the number of poor declined by more than 400 million in China, though half of this decline was in the first few years of the 1980s.
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  Accessing modern science: policy and institutional options for agricultural biotechnology in developing countries

  Eldis Document Store, 2001

  The paper highlights the complexity of the challenge in developing new forms of collaboration between a variety of actors in the biotechnology area in developing countries, including, national research systems with very diverse capacities in biotechnology, international research centres, local private R&D companies, global life science companies, and advanced research institutes in both industrial
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  BT cotton in China

  Greenpeace International, 2002

  This paper discusses the issues surrounding BT cotton in China. BT cotton is the main genetically modified crop variety in large scale production in China. Recent research shows that BT cotton is effective in controlling the primary pest of cotton.
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  Participating for a change: how Plan is responding to children’s views and involving them in development

  Plan, 2003

  Plan has consulted with children in China, Kenya, Nepal, Philippines and Tanzania to identify the issues that children themselves feel are having a negative impact on their education and well-being. This document briefly reports the main findings in each country, and outlines the changes made by Plan in response to their views.
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  Chasing the dragon: accounting for the under performance of India by comparison with China in attracting foreign direct investment

  Development Studies Association, UK and Ireland, 2003

  This paper seeks to explain why, although both China and India had similar levels of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the late 1970s, China now attracts far more FDI than India.The analysis focuses on the way in which national and sub-national governments have gone about the task of promoting inward foreign direct investment, and also considers how the governments of the two countries have fa
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  Sources of possible crisis in East and South Asia

  International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2004

  This background paper outlines likely sources of conflict in East and South Asia, focussing on Korea, Taiwan, Kashmir and Pakistan.
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  Population movement and HIV/AIDS: the case of Ruili, Yunnan, China

  UNDP Sustainable Development Networking Programme, 2003

  Ruili is one of the cities in China where HIV was first detected. Located close to the Myanmar border in South West China, the town demonstrates the complexity of HIV/AIDS epidemics. A highly mobile migrant population interacts with the underlying poverty, geographic location and thriving trade system.
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  Unintended pregnancy and induced abortion among unmarried women in China: a systematic review

  Health Research Policy and Systems, 2004

  Published in Health Services Research by BioMed Central, this article reports on research into pregnancy and induced abortion among unmarried women in China. The focus of the research was on unmet contraceptive needs in unmarried women.
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  Agricultural and human health impacts of climate policy in China: a general equilibrium analysis with special reference to Guangdong

  OECD Development Centre, 2003

  China’s climate policy over the coming decades will be crucial to efforts to slow global warming. While CO2 emissions growth slowed in the 1990s, it is too early to know if this represents the beginning of a long-term downward trend in the carbon intensity of China’s economy.

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