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  The macroeconomics of poverty reduction: initial findings of the UNDP Asia-Pacific Regional Programme

  United Nations Development Programme, 2003

  This paper presents some initial findings from the drafts of eight case studies (Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Mongolia, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Vietnam).
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  Internet in China

  International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, 2004

  Series of articles from a symposium on the sociology of internet usage in China:The Internet in China: A Symposium / Randolph Kluver Mingling Politics with Play: The Virtual Chinese Public Sphere / Guobin Yang . The internet is a venue for socializing, joking, bantering. The fun part lures people back, while politics gets its fair share of attention along the way.
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  Cost-containment mechanisms for essential medicines, including antiretrovirals, in China

  Essential Drugs and Medicine Policy, WHO, 2003

  In seeking to contain costs for antiretrovirals and other essential medicines, countries should consider the full range of available policy tools, taking into account how they may complement one another. Cost-containment mechanisms are currently promoted for any essential medicine not affordable to the people or via health insurance systems.
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  Agricultural biotechnology development, policy and impacts in China

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2002

  China is developing the largest plant biotechnology capacity outside North America and an impressive list of genetically modified (GM) crops under trial. However, underlying these achievements is a growing concern among policy-makers about the impact of the global biotechnology debate on China's agricultural trade.
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  Financial development, growth, and poverty: how close are the links?

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper explores the causal links between finance and economic prosperity. It argues that although empirical cross-country models recognise that financial depth and average GDP growth represent useful starting points for the measurement of cause and effect (input and output), neither is comprehensive or fully satisfactory.
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  Labour migration in Asia: trends, challenges and policy responses in countries of origin

  International Organization for Migration, 2003

  This book explores the new patterns and trends that are emerging in labour migration in Asia, which are affected by not just the labour market, but also national and social circumstances.
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  Is China’s growth real and sustainable?

  China Center for Economic Research, Beijing, 2004

  Since the reforms of 1978, China has achieved remarkable rates of economic growth, with an average growth rate of 9.4% in 1978-2002. Can such high growth rates be sustained? This paper examines China’s recent economic performance, and discusses the prospects for China’s long term growth.The paper notes that China experienced a period of deflation in 1998-2002.
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  A biotech developmental state?: the Chinese experience

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This briefing paper looks at the achievements of, and the challenges to, biotechnology in China. In contrast to other countries, the state has determined the objectives and led the biotechnology process.
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  Women in the People's Republic of China: Country Briefing Paper

  Asian Development Bank, 1998

  While the transition to a social market economy has benefits for women, there are indications that the adoption of the market-oriented reforms has also resulted in gender inequality. Women workers in the People's Republic of China (PRC) are likely to be laid off first and have restricted access to more secure jobs.
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  Deforestation, floods and state reactions in China and Thailand

  Southeast Asia Research Centre, City University, Hong Kong, 2002

  What factors motivate developing countries to prevent deforestation, which can cause serious environmental damage, such as flooding? Do democratic states take action more effectively than authoritarian states?

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