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  Aid and conflict: the policy coherence challenge

  WIDER Conference on Making Peace Work, 2004

  This paper explores the security dimensions of policy coherence for development (PCD) work, arguing that the future of aid lies in the intersection between security and development. Illustrating the interlinkages between security and development, the paper reports that there is growing evidence of a two-way causality.
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  Global standards and the environmental performance of industry

  School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, 2004

  Initially presented at the conference on Global Standards, Oxford, November 2003, this paper considers the emergence of global standards as a driver of improvements in the environmental performance of industry. It focuses on the growing importance of firm-based global environmental standards as an alternative to the more widely recognised state-centred approaches.
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  Social dialogue and labour market performance in the Philippines

  International Labour Organization, 2003

  This paper is one of a number of country studies on social dialogue to be undertaken by the InFocus Programme on Social Dialogue, Labour Law and Labour Administration (IFP/Dialogue). The series seeks to elaborate on the concept of social dialogue as practised in member states, analyse different approaches to social dialogue and identify best practice.
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  Time for Transparency: Coming clean on oil, mining and gas revenues

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Across the globe money that should be funding development is being misappropriated by corrupt elites. In Angola a quarter of the state’s annual oil income goes missing. In many resources rich countries, mining and energy companies facilitate off-the-books payments as part of anti-competitive, under-the-table methods of winning business.
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  Duties sans frontieres: human rights and global social justice

  Ethical Globalization Initiative, 2003

  This report attempts to shape simple and convincing arguments that explain, to governments and people alike, why action to end poverty, illiteracy, oppression and disease is right, is in the interests of everyone (richer and poorer) and requires combined and persistent effort from all parties.The report recognises that ethical commitment is an essential component of any strategy to make the wor
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  Highly affected, rarely considered: the International Youth Parliament Commission’s report on the impacts of globalisation on young people

  International Youth Parliament, Oxfam, 2003

  This report presents the view of the Youth Commission on Globalisation, an International Youth Parliament (IYP) initiative, on some of the challenges that globalisation presents to the world.
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  Preliminary study on the impact of international economic and financial issues on the enjoyment of human rights

  United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, 2003

  This study explores the implications of international economic issues, mainly driven by the process of globalisation, for the realisation of the right to development, and proposes avenues for action for all actors in the international community.Findings and conclusions include:the opportunities provided by globalisation and integration into the world economy to developing countries have
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  Constructing authority alternatives in Colombia: globalisation and the transformation of governance

  Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2004

  This paper examines the new institutional arrangements that are emerging to replace or complement sovereign authority, as well as their consequences for state strength, legitimacy, and governance.
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  Analytical study of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the fundamental principle of non-discrimination in the context of globalization

  United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, 2004

  This report considers how globalisation has brought new attention to the principle of non-discrimination by:providing opportunities for increasing commercial and cultural exchangehighlighting inequalities within and between countriesIt argues that the prohibition of discrimination provides an essential principle for globalisation.
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  Sustaining income growth in a globalising world: the search for the Nth rent

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  This paper explores how economic agents, particularly developing country producers, can dynamically position themselves in the global economy so that they are able to sustain income growth.

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