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    Race to the bottom: exploitation of workers in the global garment industry

    Norwegian Church Aid, 2005
    This paper explores the race to the bottom in garment producing countries.
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    Fresh water to eradicate poverty: Norwegian Church Aid understanding the issues

    Norwegian Church Aid, 2005
    Freshwater supply is not a priority of the rich countries in their development agendas for the poor countries. Yet this paper suggests that it is the most important indicator of destitution. This paper argues that it is necessary for affluent OECD nations to allocate at least 1% of GDP to assuring access to freshwater supply in poor nations.
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    Policy or process? The politics of international peace implementation

    Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway, 2004
    This report from an international conference, focuses on peacemaking and peacbuiding in Guatemala, the Middle East, Liberia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Bosnia and Kosovo.
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    Peacebuilding in post-war situations: lessons for Sudan

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004
    This report examines lessons from peacebuilding efforts during the last decade that are relevant to the current challenges in the Sudan.It broadly discusses themes such as economic recovery and reconstruction; post-war government interventions including criminal justice procedures, security sector reform and the prospects for democracy in the Sudan; and cross-cutting issues and challenges such
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    Oil and mining revenues: from curse to blessing for developing countries: challenges to governments, companies and NGOs developing countries

    Norwegian Church Aid, 2003
    This report examines the complexities of the "resource curse", which has led to corruption, conflict and severe environmental damage in many resource rich countries.The report presents three key arguments:good national governance - or its absence - is critical. The development of natural resources almost inevitably involves complex trade-offs between conflicting objectives.
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    Understanding the issues: what's the matter with trade?

    Norwegian Church Aid, 2005
    This is a set of papers that address the questions: do equal rules really allow poor producers to receive a fair share of the trade wealth and does the current free trade system represent equal rules at all?
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    WTO/GATS and economic development: key to "the new economy"

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2005
    This report outlines the programme on WTO/GATS and Economic Development which is part of a Strategic Institute Programme at CMI on Producer Services.The WTO/GATS programme covers three main issues:the adoption of information technology and its impact on supply chain managementthe impact of trade liberalisation (financial services, telecommunications and energy services in particular
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    Indigenous rangeland resources and conflict management by the North Afar pastoral groups in Ethiopia

    Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2004
    This case study, conducted in north Afar pastoral settlements in Ethiopia, explores pastoral natural resource management as well as indigenous conflict management.Main findings of the study include:the pattern of natural resource management has shown dramatic changes in 4-5 decades time, eroding traditional strategies of pastoral resource management; and this is caused mainly by the enc
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    An evaluation of the impacts of economic reform on performance of agriculture in Ethiopia

    Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2005
    In an effort to boost agricultural productivity the Ethiopian government has embarked on implementing policy reforms since 1991. This paper uses the stochastic frontier production function to examine technical, allocative and economic efficiency in crop production using farm level data from 1993/94 and 2000/01 production years in post-reform Ethiopia.
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    Off-farm employment, factor market development and input use in farm production: a case study of a remote village in Jiangxi Province, China

    Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2005
    The objective of this paper is to analyse the impact of off-farm employment on village factor market development, and estimate the effects of off-farm employment on input use in farm production (especially inputs related to the change of land production capacity).The paper identifes four household groups which at group level show large differences in terms of household size, number of labourers

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