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  Understanding reform with special reference to Africa: perspective on reform

  Global Development Network, 2004

  This paper discusses the issues that reformers need to address to improve the chances of successful implementation of major policy changes in African societies.
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  The new Asian realism: economics and politics of the Asia Cooperation Dialogue

  Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2003

  In the post-Cold War era, there has been a surge in initiatives to strengthen existing and creating new regional organisations all over the world.
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  Comparing EU free trade agreements: investment

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2004

  This paper discusses and compares a number of free trade agreements the EU holds, namely, The Euro-Mediterranean Association Agreements, EU-Mexico Global Agreement and the EU-Chile Association AgreementAmong the authors findings are:All EU Free Trade Agreements stop short of including protection provisions such as expropriation and compensation clausesdisagreement between EU Membe
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  International investment perspectives

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004

  The articles in the report cover a wide range of investment topics, the highlights of which include:foreign direct investment (FDI) in the OCED continued to fall in 2003. This appears to be due to the sluggish macroeconomic performance of many of the larger OCED economies, not least Europe.
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  Water justice for all: global and local resistance to the control and commodification of water

  Friends of the Earth International, 2003

  This report explores the issue of global water justice.
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  Globalization, technology and Asian development

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2003

  This paper discusses issues of globalisation, trade and Asian development.
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  Analytical study of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the fundamental principle of non-discrimination in the context of globalization

  United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, 2004

  This report considers how globalisation has brought new attention to the principle of non-discrimination by:providing opportunities for increasing commercial and cultural exchangehighlighting inequalities within and between countriesIt argues that the prohibition of discrimination provides an essential principle for globalisation.
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  Sustaining income growth in a globalising world: the search for the Nth rent

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  This paper explores how economic agents, particularly developing country producers, can dynamically position themselves in the global economy so that they are able to sustain income growth.
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  A fair globalization: creating opportunities for all

  International Labour Organization, 2004

  This final report of the ILO’s World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization suggests how the potential of globalisation can be better harnessed to address the needs, concerns and aspirations of more people in the world.The report argues that globalisation can be a process with a strong social dimension based on universally shared values and respect for human rights and individual d
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  Trading away our rights: women working in global supply chains

  Oxfam, 2004

  While much research has focused on the content of labour codes of conduct and how suppliers meet them, this paper argues that in practice it is the supply-chain purchasing practices of the large companies themselves that undermine the labour standards the codes claim to support.The paper argues that a new model of business practice that requires increasing flexibility through "just-in-time" del

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