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  Impacts of agricultural research on poverty: findings of an integrated economic and social analysis

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper examines how agricultural technologies influence and are influenced by the diverse livelihood strategies, vulnerability context, relations of gender and power, and other conditions of the poor. It reports findings of a CGIAR research project including seven case studies of different types of agricultural research:
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  Weighting game: economic development and nutritional status in China

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Since the introduction of a market economy in China in the early 1980s, many areas have moved from a situation of food scarcity to wide choice in diet in less than a generation. But the changes have been unevenly distributed.
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  China’s rural health system in a changing institutional context

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper describes the problems encountered by rural health services in China since the country engaged in the transition to a market economy. Produced by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), the article argues that these problems should be apprehended within the wider scope of changing institutions as China moves away from a command economy.
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  Locked doors: the human rights of people living with HIV/AIDS in China

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  This paper highlights the importance of protecting the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS and those at risk of contracting the disease in order to combat the epidemic.
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  Locked doors: the human rights of people living with HIV/AIDS in China

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  China faces what could be the largest HIV/AIDS epidemic in the world. At least 1.5 million men, women and children are affected, and probably many more. During the 1990s local authorities in at least 7 provinces were complicit in transmission of HIV to hundreds of thousands or even millions of villagers through an unsafe but highly profitable blood collection industry.
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  Globalisation and the developing countries: emerging strategies for rural development and poverty alleviation

  International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2002

  This on-line book reviews the impact of globalisation on a range of issues, including the effects of changing global rules and regulations on the economies of developing countries in general, and their agricultural sectors in particular. The book divides into four main sections, and includes chapters by various authors.Part I: globalisation from the perspective of the South.
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  Competition policy in East Asia: the cases of Japan, People’s Republic of China, and Hong Kong

  Centre for Asian Pacific Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, 2002

  In recent years, competition law has emerged as a major policy issue in East Asia, and most countries in the region have introduced some form of competition policy. This paper evaluates the competition policies in Japan, China and Hong Kong.
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  Governing the grasslands of Western China

  Case Western Reserve University, 2003

  The paper begins by outlining Chinese grassland policy in the reform period and then describes key aspects of actual local level arrangements for grassland management. This description is based on the authors’ field studies at different sites on the Tibetan plateau (within Sichuan and Yunnan Province and the Tibetan Autonomous Region) and Xinjiang-Uygur Autonomous Region1.
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  Past, present and future: rangelands in China

  Case Western Reserve University, 2002

  Overview of the rangelands of the Jianshe region of China which discusses the environmental and social issues associated with the pastoralist land use in the area.
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  Level playing field? Making world trade work for all

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  The poorest countries are small players in world trade. The combined exports of the 48 least developed countries (LDCs) accounted for only 0.35 per cent of world trade in 1995. Can trade agreements be made to work better for LDCs? Can technical advice improve the negotiating capacity of LDCs?

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