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  The electronic journal of governance and innovation

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  This issue of eAfrica examines the critical issues and the demands for trade-offs that Africa can expect form the defenders of unfair trade at the fifth WTO Ministerial in Cancun. It outlines two aggressive tactics that Africa could use to win a better deal and how Africa needs to make fundamental changes if it is to exploit even the modest trade access it has now.
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  Can trade reform reduce global poverty?

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper looks at the issue of trade reform in the context of the current development policy agenda.
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  Developing countries: victims or participants, their changing role in international negotiations

  Climate Change and Disasters Group, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, 2003

  This paper questions how developing countries can effectively participate in international negotiations as they become an increasingly important part of the international system.The author addresses the following questions:Can developing countries participate effectively in these negotiations, and can they obtain benefits from such participation?What lessons can be learnt from past
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  An agenda for research and development: meeting on the role of generics and local industry in attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in pharmaceuticals and vaccines

  Consumer Project on Technology - Health Care and Intellectual Property, 2003

  This paper presents the beginning of a discussion on an agenda for Research and Development (R&D), as it relates to efforts to expand the use of generics in pharmaceuticals and vaccines in connection with the Millennium Development Goals.This paper seeks to create a policy framework to address this problem, and more generally, to think more rationally about how we should finance R&D when high p
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  Can liberalisation boost farming in Southern Africa?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Have structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) reduced discrimination against agriculture in southern Africa? Does price liberalisation, by increasing production and employment really reduce poverty and the incentive to migrate to towns and cities? Or are deeper changes needed?
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  Leaving it to the market: the failure of liberalisation to help the rural poor of Mexico

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Agricultural liberalisation aims to kick- start the rural economy and improve the livelihoods of rural people. By freeing market forces and discipline, efficiency should be raised and investment encouraged.
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  Privatisation and indigenous ownership: evidence from Africa

  Centre on Regulation and Competition, Manchester, 2002

  This paper focuses on the potential for the Zambian government to use privatisation as a means to promote indigenisation. It provides a discussion of privatisation and presents a typology of the measures that can be used to promote indigenisation.
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  State of the world's mothers 2003: protecting women and children in war and conflict

  Save the Children Fund, 2003

  This year's State of the World’s Mothers report focuses on the tens of millions of mothers and children whose lives have been affected by armed conflict, bringing attention to critical protection needs in war-torn communities around the world.Findings include:the Conflict Protection Scorecard identifies Afghanistan, Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sierra Leone as f
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  European development cooperation to 2010

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper presents a timetable of European development decisions through the next decade.
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  Hunger, private property rights, and the right to food

  Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway, 2002

  This paper questions whether the right to food as a minimum requirement for social and economic welfare, are fully compatible with freedom rights (on which property rights are based) and their implications on private markets.

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