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    Managing the transition to a responsible global textiles and garment industry

    AccountAbility, 2005
    The Multi Fiber Arrangement provided many coutries with access to markets and sheltered them from global competititon, through the imposition of country quotas. This paper considers the implications of a post-MFA era for developing countries where garment production and exports are mainstays of the economy.
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    Race to the bottom: exploitation of workers in the global garment industry

    Norwegian Church Aid, 2005
    This paper explores the race to the bottom in garment producing countries.
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    NAFTA's promise and reality: lessons from Mexico for the Hemisphere

    Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2003
    The report has two objectives: to determine how quality of life in Mexico has been affected by trade liberalisation in North America. It focuses on the microlevel of people and their communities, on changes in household income, paychecks, rural employment and agricultural production.
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    Globalization and social policy in a development context regional responses

    United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005
    This paper discusses how globalisation shapes the prospects for a socially inclusive, democratic and developmental social policy.it emphasises the need for careful use of the globalisation concept and argues against the adoption of the 'strong globalisation' due to its economic determinism and an acceptance of immutable, external constraints on social policy and development.it also hig
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    Searching for best practices to counter human trafficking in Africa: a focus on women and children

    UNESDOC: Online UNESCO documents, 2005
    This report contributes to the discussions on the concept of Best Practices (BP) to counter human trafficking, and offers analytical tools to examine the use of the concept.The paper is structured as follows:analysis of the political, legal, social and cultural aspects of trafficking of women and children in Africaintroduction of Haas’ concept of epistemic community to trace how a B
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    Understanding the issues: what's the matter with trade?

    Norwegian Church Aid, 2005
    This is a set of papers that address the questions: do equal rules really allow poor producers to receive a fair share of the trade wealth and does the current free trade system represent equal rules at all?
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    The United States-Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement falls short on workers' rights

    Human Rights Watch, 2005
    This brief assesses the impact of the proposed United States-Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (D.R.-CAFTA) on workers’ human rights.Main findings of the report are:the D.R.-CAFTA fails to require compliance with even the most basic internationally recognised labour rights norms and specifically fails to protect women workers against discriminationthe labour ri
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    China’s emergence in the global economy and Brazil

    Departamento de Economia, Pontificía Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2005
    This paper examines the impact of China’s expanded role in the world economy on trade and investment flows to and from Brazil. It also looks at the challenges emerging for the Brazilian private and public sectors, and the policies and initiatives being taken to meet those challenges.
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    Regional integration and poverty

    Overseas Development Institute, 2005
    This brief assesses the relationship between regional integration and poverty reduction. It points out that regional integration can affect poverty at the country level in a number of ways: through the volume (e.g. effects on allocative or dynamic efficiency) and poverty focus (e.g.
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    Trafficking in women and children

    Suhakam Human Rights Commission of Malaysia, 2004
    This report looks at the situation of trafficking in women and children in Malaysia. It looks at the trends of trafficking, international and national conventions and legislations, and provides recommendations to address the problem.

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