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  Do customs trade facilitation programmes help reduce customs-related corruption?

  Anti-Corruption Research Network, 2011

  Customs-related corruption costs World Customs Organisation (WCO) members at least $2 billion in customs revenue each year, while conventional wisdom suggests that trade facilitation programmes reduce corruption in customs.
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  Adapting to climate change in the water sector

  Overseas Development Institute, 2009

  This background note, published by the Overseas Development Institute, provides an overview of the potential risks and vulnerabilities that face the water sector due to climate change. It also summarises of some of the adaptive strategies, targeting both supply and demand of water, being employed across various sectors in the developing world and offers suggestions going forward.
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  The International Journal of Bahamian Studies

  International Journal of Bahamian Studies is a scholarly peer-reviewed research journal published by The College of The Bahamas.
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  Win-win scenarios at the climate-development interface: challenges and opportunities for stove replacement programs through carbon finance

  Social Science Research Network, 2010

  This paper reviews the possibilities for win-win climate and development outcomes in programmes that distribute improved efficiency cookstoves (ICS) with the use of carbon finance.
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  Transparency in trade policymaking: lessons for South Africa from Australia’s experiences

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2010

   Trade policy reform in the form of trade liberalisation is a very important tool for raising living standards and improving a country’s economy. Such reform on its own, however, is likely to be rejected by the public and those sectors that would be most adversely affected.
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  Worldwide guide to trade unions and works councils

  Baker and McKenzie, 2010

  This book looks at the current state of works councils and trade unions for 33 countries around the world. Topics include: collective bargaining unfair labour practices trade union employee protections rights employee collective representatives the labour regulatory regime
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  Boston University International Law Journal

  The Boston University International Law Journal publishes articles on international law written by professional authors and practitioners, and note and case comments written by student authors.
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  Trading conflict for development: utilising the trade in minerals from eastern DR Congo for development

  Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2009

  This paper relays that the renewed outbreak of violence in North Kivu in the second half of 2008 saw the long running insecurity in Eastern DR Congo become the top global news story for two weeks as
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  Corruption and bilateral trade flows: extortion or evasion?

  INSEAD, 2007

  This paper examines the theory and evidence of the role of corruption as a barrier to trade, highlighting the interaction with nominal tariffs. It assesses the effect of corruption by customs officials on international trade flows stressing the dichotomy between extortion and evasion.
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  Trade-related issues for possible inclusion in the Human Rights Treaty monitoring process

  threeD, 2008

  The questions and comments included in this document are the result of internet based research posed by the United Nations (UN) Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to States parties. The document contains 10 articles related to basic human rights.

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