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  The bushmeat commodity chain: patterns of trade and sustainability in a mature urban market in west Africa

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This report explores the social, economic and biological dimensions of the bushmeat trade in west Africa.
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  Realignment of debt service obligations and ability to pay in concessional lending: feasibility and modalities

  HIPC Progress to Date, World Bank, 2003

  This paper studies schemes which have the potential to increase the flexibility of heavily indebted primary producing countries in meeting their debt service obligations by making debt service repayments contingent on the world prices of the commodities they export.
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  Do African manufacturing firms learn from exporting?

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2002

  This paper examines two explanations for the positive association between export-participation status and productivity: self-selection of the relatively more efficient plants into exporting learning by exporting. It uses panel data on manufacturing firms in four African countries: Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya and Zimbabwe.It finds:consistent with the learning-by-exporting
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  Globalisation and the developing countries: emerging strategies for rural development and poverty alleviation

  International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2002

  This on-line book reviews the impact of globalisation on a range of issues, including the effects of changing global rules and regulations on the economies of developing countries in general, and their agricultural sectors in particular. The book divides into four main sections, and includes chapters by various authors.Part I: globalisation from the perspective of the South.
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  Gender in motion. Tackling gender differences in transport needs, access and planning in Ghana

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  A joint University of Ghana / Transport Research Laboratory study based on research in Ghana argues that gender is a missing link in approaches to transport use and planning. Women have more problems gaining access to transport than men, while transportation profiles and needs of men and women often differ.
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  Patent protection and access to HIV/AIDS pharmaceuticals in Sub-Saharan Africa

  World Intellectual Property Organization, 2000

  This paper reviews the TRIPS patent and, in particular, those provisions relevant to the issue of pharmaceuticals and the patent situation in sub-Saharan Africa with regard to the protection of anti-retroviral HIV/AIDS drugs. Patent offices and pharmaceutical companies were surveyed to discover the extent to which anti-retroviral HIV/AIDS drugs were being patented.
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  Ethical trade and sustainable rural livelihoods: Volta River Estates Fairtrade bananas case study

  Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2001

  Uses Volta River Estates Ltd. (Ghana) as a case study into ethical trade and sustainable rural livelihoods. This organisation is a Fairtrade banana exporter.The VREL example suggests that plantations can increase livelihood opportunities for certain groups of people without negatively affecting the natural resource base.

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