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Searching with a thematic focus on Globalisation, Poverty

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  Implementing the human right to food: domestic obligations and the international trade in agriculture

  Rights and Democracy, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, 2003

  This paper reports on a workshop held in September 2003 in Cancun, Mexico.
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  Poverty, international migration and asylum

  United Nations University, 2004

  This paper discusses the issues surrounding poverty, international migration and asylum.
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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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  International migration, remittances, and poverty in developing countries

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2003

  This paper examines the impact of international migration and remittances on poverty in a broad cross-section of developing countries.
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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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  Tracking gender equity under economic reforms: continuity and change in South Asia

  International Development Research Centre, 2003

  This book develops a new framework for gender analysis by demonstrating the importance of identifying the context of such analysis, and by highlighting the necessity of differentiating ‘gender’ per se from its various ‘indicators’.
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  Naomi Klein and the Anti-Globalization Movement

  Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, 2003

  This paper examines the writings of Naomi Klein, one of the leaders in the anti-globalization movement. The contents of her influential book No Logo are summarized and some problems with her analysis of globalisation are discussed.
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  Competing concepts of inequality in the globalization debate

  World Bank Publications, 2004

  This paper argues that differing value judgments in measuring inequality underlie the conflicting factual claims about how much poor people have shared in the economic gains from globalisation.
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  Globalization, the international poverty trap and chronic poverty in the least developed countries

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003

  This paper argues that the dollar-a-day poverty measure is pervasive and persistent in most Least Developed Countries because they are caught in an international poverty trap.
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  Hands off: why international financial institutions must stop drilling, piping and mining

  Friends of the Earth International, 2003

  This report reviews the experience and outcomes of the funding by International Financial Institutions (IFIs) of projects in the extractive industries.

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