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Trafficking in women for sexual exploitation and good practices for addressing the problem by all stakeholders
United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2005The paper discusses initiatives to combat trafficking in women which qualify as "good practices" examples in combating trafficking in women for sexual exploitation. They include policies, programmes and legislation aimed at combating and eliminating trafficking in women for sexual exploitation, focusing on Nigerian examples.DocumentThe impact of trade liberalisation on the informal sector in Brazil
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2005This paper assesses whether or not the trade liberalisation process in Brazil had any effect on both the reduction in the wage differential between formal and informal workers and the fall in the proportion of formal workers.DocumentThe role of property rights protection on the effects of free trade agreements on foreign direct investment
Global Development Network, 2003Globalization has been associated with an increasing number of free trade agreements focusing mainly on increasing FDI flows to emerging markets.The author argues that international agreements have a differentiated effect on FDI depending on the definition of property rights in the receiving country.DocumentThe impact of trade liberalization on revenue mobilization and stability in Sudan
University of Khartoum, Sudan, 2005This study examines the buoyancy and the elasticity of the Sudanese tax system paying particular attention to the impact of trade liberalization on revenue mobilization and the stabilization role of the fiscal sector.The results of the analysis over 1970-2002 reveal that the tax system as a whole is not buoyant or elastic; the same results were also obtained for the major tax handles, namely; iDocumentMigrants' human rights: could GATS help?
Migration Information Source, 2005This brief paper explores how GATS negotiations in the WTO could provide an opportunity to address the human rights risks linked to migration as well as discussing its limitations.DocumentMaking WTO membership work for Viet Nam: globalization as critical discourse
Mekonginfo, 2005This paper asks what mechanisms are at work to turn formerly ant-capitalist leaders of Vietnam into supporters of globalisation. It concludes that globalisation is in fact a critical – liberating – discourse, providing the poor with positive examples of progress and embuing them with the 'capacity to aspire'.DocumentEngendering policy coherence for development: gender issues for the global policy agenda in the year 2005
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., 2005Using case studies, this paper explores the distributional consequences and gendered outcomes of the current international trade and financial policy regimes.DocumentIndia-East Asia integration: a win-win for Asia
Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2005As East Asian economies begin to emerge from the shadow of the 1997 crisis, there appears to be an increasing recognition that greater economic coordination and cooperation among major Asian countries is essential to manage globalisation challenges, and to enhance Asia’s role in the world affairs.DocumentEconomic integration of Eurasia: opportunities and challenges of global significance
Center for Social and Economic Research, Poland, 2005What characterises the process of Eurasian economic integration? How is this process proceeding in the key areas where integration is currently observed?