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    China's growth strategies

    Cornell University Library, 2008
    This paper reviews the major views on China’s development and reform strategies. It discusses why the same forces behind China’s rapid growth also create new challenges and concludes with some remarks on the Chinese experience, key lessons, and their transferability to other countries.
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    Regional inequality in China: an overview

    Poverty, inequality and development research at Cornell University, 2008
    This document brings together a selection of papers carrying out a systematic investigation into the nature and evolution of regional inequality in China. It contains a brief conceptual consideration of spatial inequality, reports on what has been happening globally, and discusses trends in regional inequality and policy responses to these trends.
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    Religion, politics and development: lessons from the lands of Islam

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2008
    What role has Islam historically played to promote or inhibit development?
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    Share The World's Resources (STWR)

    STWR is a non-governmental organisation campaigning for those resources which are essential to life, such as water, energy and basic food, to be shared internationally under the auspices of the United
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    Mapping Chinese development assistance in Africa: a synthesis analysis of Angola, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe

    African Forum and Network on Debt and Development, 2008
    With a focus on Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique and Angola, this report studies the nature, coordination and management of China’s aid to Africa. The findings aim to be used for public campaigning and dialogue with civil society organisations and governments in the countries concerned in order to demystify official development assistance from China.
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    Latin America and European soft power geopolitics

    Centro para la Apertura y el Desarollo de América Latina / Centre for the Opening and Development of Latin America, 2008
    This document argues for refocusing European Union (EU) engagement in Latin America away from appeasement of the emerging illiberal regimes and towards active support for liberal forces, consistent with the EU’s founding philosophy, economic goals and geopolitical future.
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    Skills, productivity and employment growth: the case of Latin America

    International Labour Organization, 2008
    This study aims to illustrate the relationships between training and workers’ skills, productivity and the growth of quality employment in Latin American societies. It analyses existing information and case studies of four different countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru.
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    How globalised production exploits informal-sector workers: investigating the Indian garment sector

    School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2008
    Focusing on workers employed in Delhi, this paper investigates exploitation of informal sector workers in India’s garment industry. It looks at trends such as the incorporation of the informal economy into trans-national production networks in the Indian garment industry.
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    Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in Europe (CSESCE)

    An academic research institute, the Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in Europe forms a focal point for research concerned with the implications of globalisation, integration, liberal
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    Breaking global deadlocks: environment, climate change and global governance

    Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2008
    One of a series of meeting reports, this paper attempts to refine the concept of how leaders play an instrumental role in addressing pressing global issues. The purpose of the meeting covered by this paper was to provide input to the hosts of the 2008 G8 Summit from policy researchers working on potential initiatives to break the climate change deadlock.

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