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  Migration, labor market flexibility, and wage determination in China: a review

  China Center for Economic Research, Beijing, 2003

  While rural to urban migration has been a major feature of the development process in most developing countries, China has experienced this trend mainly since the economic reforms in 1978. Prior to the reforms, migration was limited as the household registration (hukou) system restricted mobility. The growth in rural to urban migration has therefore, raised several questions.
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  Skills training in the informal sector in China

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This report reviews the current situation and main concerns of employment training in the informal sector in China.
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  Development Myths Around Sex and Sexualities in the South

  BRIDGE, 2003

  In development representations of the South, sexuality is either ignored, or discussed only in relation to disease and violence, or reproductive decision making based on material interests.
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  Protecting China's biodiversity

  SciDev.Net, 2003

  This article argues that as China's new leaders begin to develop socioeconomic priorities, initiatives, policies and legislation, it is important for them to expand support for biodiversity conservation.The article proposes three strategies for improving biodiversity conservation:ensuring systematic planning and an adequate conceptual base for national biodiversity protection measures
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  Social Policy in an Era of Trade Intensification: A Perspective from Asian Women

  Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, 2002

  This is the second in a series of three comprehensive economic literacy packets produced by the Asia Network of the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN). The IGTN aims to engage with the global women's movement to raise awareness of the relationship between gender relations and macroeonomic and trade polices.
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  Externalities in rural development: evidence for China

  World Bank, 2002

  The paper tests for external effects of local economic activity on consumption and income growth at the farm-household level using panel data from four provinces of post-reform rural China.
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  China’s plunge into the world economy: prudence or poor judgement?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  China, post-Mao, is dramatically engaged with the world economy. Export growth has exploded by a massive 500 percent since 1980. China now trusts in exports as the engine of growth and the safety net for a domestic restructuring which has created high levels of urban unemployment. What are the consequences of abandoning Mao’s strategy of self-reliance?
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  Smoking gun? Grim predictions for tobacco-related deaths in China

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Smoking rates increased dramatically among Chinese men from the 1950s to the 1990s. What impact will this have on health in China? The increase in smoking is almost identical to that witnessed 40 years earlier in the US. Will China see a similar rise in tobacco- related deaths over the next few decades?
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  Home sweet home? Codes for homeworkers

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Homeworkers are mostly (up to 90 percent) women - the invisible workforce in global production chains. They machine garments, weave cloth, solder electronics, process food, make parts for cars, or pack goods. At best homeworkers face uncertainty regarding employment or social protection; at worst they are specifically excluded.
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  Learning by doing? Assessing multi-stakeholder approaches

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) is an alliance of companies, non-governmental and trade union organisations committed to working together to identify and promote good practice in the implementation of corporate codes of labour practice.

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