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  South Africa and global apartheid: continental and international policies and politics

  Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2003

  This paper analyses the phenomenon of "global apartheid", an international system of minority rule whose attributes include differential access to basic human rights, wealth and power, from an African and South African perspective, and discusses possible alternative measures to fight against it.The paper argues that the main causes of "global apartheid" can be found in the right-wing neoliberal
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  A fair globalization: creating opportunities for all

  International Labour Organization, 2004

  This final report of the ILO’s World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization suggests how the potential of globalisation can be better harnessed to address the needs, concerns and aspirations of more people in the world.The report argues that globalisation can be a process with a strong social dimension based on universally shared values and respect for human rights and individual d
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  NGOs, social change and the transformation of human relationships: a 21st-century civic agenda

  Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2002

  This paper explores the role of personal values in achieving social change. It argues that globalisation has shifted the balance of power from public to private interests, resulting in an emerging social order that excludes or oppresses certain groups of people. In order to achieve sustainable development a deeper change in power relations is necessary.
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  Spreading the gains from globalisation: what can be learned from value chains analysis?

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2000

  This paper analyses the unequal character of recent processes of globalisation and identifies key policies that can help redress this imbalance.
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  Following the Leninist capitalist road: Vietnam’s challenge to neoliberalism

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  While many of the post-communist transitional economies of eastern Europe have faltered, Vietnam has witnessed steady growth. This is despite the continuation of one-party rule, high levels of state intervention and significant control of production through state-owned enterprises (SOEs).
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  Trading away our rights: women working in global supply chains

  Oxfam, 2004

  While much research has focused on the content of labour codes of conduct and how suppliers meet them, this paper argues that in practice it is the supply-chain purchasing practices of the large companies themselves that undermine the labour standards the codes claim to support.The paper argues that a new model of business practice that requires increasing flexibility through "just-in-time" del
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  Summary of the main points contained in the conclusions and recommendations of the final report of the extractive industries review

  Forest Peoples Programme, 2003

  This document summarises the main points in the conclusions and recommendations sections of the World Bank’s Final Report of the Extractive Industries Review (EIR).
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  Zimbabwe’s triple crisis: primitive accumulation, nation-state formation and democratization in the age of neo-liberal globalization

  African Studies Quarterly, 2003

  This paper analyses the ‘conjunctural’ aspects of the current Zimbabwean crisis. It utilises classical and ‘modernisation’ theoretical perspectives on primitive accumulation, nation-state formation and democratisation.
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  The management of global financial markets

  Forum on Debt and Development, 2000

  This book analyses the inherent instability of global financial markets and discusses management strategies to deal with such instability. It departs from the observation that the globalisation of financial markets during the 1990s not only increased the opportunities for prosperity and growth in developing countries, but also the risk of misery and recession.
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  Intellectual and cultural property rights of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Asia

  Minority Rights Group International, 2003

  This report looks at efforts by the UN and governments to protect indigenous and tribal heritage from exploitation; the pressures on governments to allow exploitation of indigenous knowledge; the many initiatives taken by Asian indigenous and tribal peoples to protect their heritage; and the effects of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the Trade-Related Aspects of International

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