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  Globalization and labour standards: A review of issues

  International Labour Review, ILO, 1997

  Globalization has given rise to a number of interrelated concerns with respect to its social repercussions. These include its impact on employment, the distribution of income, and the role of labour standards. An extensive literature has emerged on these issues.
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  Bending the Curve: Toward Global Sustainability

  Stockholm Environment Institute, 1998

  looks at what it would take to steer human development onto a more sustainable pathway during the 21st century. In its previous publication, Branch Points: Global Scenarios and Human Choice, the Global Scenario Group developed three classes of scenarios to show possible pathways for the future.
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  Does Globalization Cause a Higher Concentration of International Trade and Investment Flows?

  Economic Research and Analysis Division, World Trade Organisation (WTO), 1998

  It has sometimes been argued that "globalization" benefits only a small number of countries, and that this leads to greater marginalization of excluded countries. This paper argues that globalization is not necessarily biased towards greater concentration in international trade and investment flows.
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  How Bad Governance Impedes Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh

  OECD Development Centre, 1998

  In 1995/96, 47.5 per cent of the population of Bangladesh were still living below the poverty line. While this represents a decline compared to 62.6 per cent in 1983/84, the absolute number of poor people has in fact increased over the same period.
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  The Meaning and Measurement of Poverty

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  Defining and measuring poverty barely kicks off the game. Only by understanding causes can the main business begin of designing, implementing and evaluating interventions. In designing poverty programmes, it is wise to respect the vision of poverty articulated by poor people themselves. In some cases, this may mean implementing measures to increase income.
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  Towards a new international financial architecture: Report of the Task Force of the Executive Committee on Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations

  Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 1999

  Recommendations on new institutions needed to cope with finanancial globalisation, and to avoid crises such those in East Asia and Latin America
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  Fashion victims: The Asian garment industry and globalisation

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 1998

  Report looks at the impact of globalisation on the lives of garment workers in Asia. Urban Missionaries, a CAFOD partner in the Philippines, carried out research on the increasing use of temporary contracts in the garment industry. In Sri Lanka, People’s Forum for Development Alternatives (PEFDA) interviewed workers in the Kandy and Kurunegala areas.
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  The Poor and their Money: what have we learned?

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  Money markets ought to allocate finance where it is most needed, and thus contribute to greater productivity, employment and the reduction of poverty. Yet in practice they have not performed this function at all well. Vast segments of the population are still unserved, inappropriate financial services are offered and inflexible contracts are extended.
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  Restarting and Sustaining Growth and Development in Africa

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1999

  Developes a framework for thinking about how to restart and sustain growth and development in Africa. The framework has three themes --- politics and institutions, macroeconomic management, and enhancing productivity. Concludes that African governments can begin to overcome regression and decline on a sustained basis with a program that emphasizes five issues.
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  Competitive Agricultural Technology Funds in Developing Countries

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999

  Dissatisfaction with traditional mechanisms of funding agricultural research and dissemination (AR&D) in developing countries has led to the introduction of competitive agricultural technology funds (CATFs) in an increasing number of them. This model is now favoured by many donors, despite the fact that available information on its modalities and performance has been fragmentary.

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