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  Trading Agents and other Producer Services in African Industrialisation and Globalisation.

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999

  Trading agents and other business services play an important role in the globalisation process as mediators of economic links. However, in large parts of Africa trade and business services have traditionally been perceived negatively, and they appear not to have had the same catalytic role in Africa as they have had elsewhere.
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  Business services in the Globalizing African economies

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Discusses the role of business services in the economy in general and especially in the low-income African economies. At the global level large transnational business service firms are developing global service networks linking the world’s large cities together and serving especially the large transnational companies, but apparently largely by-passing Africa.
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  A future for labor in the global economy

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2001

  Paper seeks to answer the following question: in a liberalised world economy, what programs to increase employment and real wages are implementable by democratic nation states acting independently?In the absence of international co-ordination, globalisation indeed makes it difficult for nation states to affect the relative (after tax) prices of mobile goods and factors of production, and for th
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  Making Adjustment Work for the Poor

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  Many developing countries are engaged in structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) sponsored by the IMF and World Bank.
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  Hunter-gatherers, conservation and development: from prejudice to policy reform

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999

  Communities of present-day or former hunter-gatherers live in scattered communities across the world, although their precise numbers and status are very uncertain. Their often marginalised status and ethnolinguistic diversity has made it hard to articulate their case for land rights outside Australia and North America.
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  Explaining Inequality the World Round: Cohort Size, Kuznets Curves, and Openness

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1999

  Klaus Deininger and Lyn Squire have recently produced an inequality data base for a panel of countries from the 1960s to the 1990s. We use these data to decompose the sources of inequality into three central parts: the demographic or cohort size effect; the so-called Kuznets Curve or demand effects; and the commitment to globalisation or policy effects.
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  The Impact of Globalization on Pre-Industrial, Technologically Quiescent Economies: Real Wages, Relative Factor Prices and Commodity Price Convergence in the Third World Before 1940

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1999

  Paper uses a new pre-1940 Third World data base documenting real wages and relative factor prices to explore their determinants. There are three possibilities: external price shocks, factor endowment changes, and technological change. As the paper's title suggests, technological change is an unlikely explanation.
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  Is Globalization Today Really Different than Globalization a Hundred Years Ago?

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1999

  Paper pursues the comparison of economic integration today and pre 1914 for trade as well as finance, primarily for the United States but also with reference to the wider world.
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  Global Environment Outlook 2000 (GEO 2), UNEP

  Global Environment Outlook Report and Project, UNEP, 1999

  Analyses both global and regional issues: key finding is that the continued poverty of the majority of the planet's inhabitants and excessive consumption by the minority are the two major causes of environmental degradation. The present course is unsustainable and postponing action is no longer an option..
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  Politics and poverty: a background paper for the World Development Report 2000/1

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  Report is a synthesis of the conclusions of a research project on the responsiveness of political systems to poverty reduction prepared for DFIDPolicy issues include: Democracy has differential outcomes for the poorStates create and shape the political opportunities for the poorThere is no reason to expect that decentralisation will be pro-poorThere is a wide range of possib

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