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  Productivity Improvement and Labour Relations in the Tea Industry in South Asia

  Sectoral Activities Programme, ILO, 1996

  Examines recent experience in productivity improvement schemes in South Asia tea plantations, with particular attention to labour productivity.Recalls the importance of tea production in Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka, in terms of employment and foreign exchange earnings. Detailed information is provided on the cost account of tea production. Tea is a labour-intensive industry.
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  Population and environmental change: from linkages to policy issues

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 1999

  Population dynamics, poverty and environmental change are linked in many ways and through multiple social and economic mechanisms, at various geographic levels. But not all those linkages have relevance for policy formulation in one of the three domains thus interconnected.
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  Global Trade expansion and liberalisation: gender issues and impacts

  BRIDGE, 1998

  A major challenge for development policy aimed at reducing poverty is to enable a more equitable distribution of the gains associated with trade expansion and liberalisation. This requires a better understanding of why some countries and social groups are able to benefit more than others from increasing trade flows.
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  Alternatives for the Americas

  Global Exchange, 1998

  an international effort to create positive alternatives to the neoliberal model imposed from above by international capital.The document addresses the major topics on the official agenda of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiators (investment, finance, intellectual property rights, agriculture, market access and dispute resolution), as well as topics that are of extreme social im
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  Gender Studies in Agriculture database

  Wageningen Library, 1999

  Searchable bibliographical database on gender, agriculture and rural development. The Gender Database contains descriptions of journal articles and book chapters. Most concern the Netherlands, Western European countries or Third World countries. Literature which is important for analyzing the position of women is also included, e.g., articles on feminist theory and methodology.
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  Gender and Law: Eastern Africa Speaks

  Africa Region Findings, World Bank, 1998

  Gender issues, particularly with respect to women's status and rights, have for a considerable period, been in the forefront of donors' dialogue on social issues with Africa. While African countries have fully acknowledged the seriousness of the issues and the urgent need for action, the dialogue has been largely donor-driven and issues and priorities have been donor-set.
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  African Women and Economic Development: Investing In Our Future (UN ECA Conference, May 1998)

  African Centre for for Gender and Development, UNECA, 1998

  Papers and proceedings from a conference held in Addis Ababa, looking to develop strategic actions to speed up the socio-economic development of Africa by integrating gender issues into development policies, plans and programmes.Papers available include: ICTs as tools of Democratization Strategies for including a Gender Perspective in African Information and Communications Technol
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  Microdeterminants of Consumption, Poverty, Growth, and Inequality in Bangladesh

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  What are the gains from a better education, more land ownership, or a different occupation in Bangladesh? Do the gains differ in urban and rural areas? Have they remained stable over time? Do household size, family structure, and gender affect well-being?
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  Reconsidering the Evidence on Returns to T&V Extension in Kenya

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  The sensitivity of empirical results to potential data errors and model misspecification can yield misleading policy implications and investment signals.
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  Social Exclusion and Land Administration in Orissa, India

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Examines—from the perspective of transaction costs—factors that constrain access to land for the rural poor and other socially excluded groups in India. They find that: Land reform has reduced large landholdings since the 1950s. Medium-size farms have gained most. Formidable obstacles still prevent the poor from gaining access to land.

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