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  Seasonal migration as survival strategy

  GDNet document store, 2005

  This paper examines the motivations of people who migrate from Burkina Faso to Côte d’Ivoire, the economic pole of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU).
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  How does China’s growth affect poverty reduction in Asia, Africa and Latin America?

  Overseas Development Group, East Anglia University (UEA) School of Development Studies, 2004

  This study assesses China’s growth on the world economy and its implications of this for poverty reduction in other developing countries and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. The growth of China has implications for other countries through its impact on their exports to China itself (positive) and to third countries (negative), and through their imports from China.
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  Study on the practice of trafficking in persons in Senegal

  Human Trafficking, 2004

  This study looks at the nature and extent of trafficking people in Senegal.
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  The future of the WTO: addressing institutional challenges in the new millennium

  World Trade Organization, 2004

  In the light of recent setbacks of the WTO, particularly in Seattle and Cancun, this report looks at the state of the organisation in order to study and clarify institutional challenges and to consider how the organisation can be reinforced to meet these challenges in the future.
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  Gender and labour market liberalisation in Africa

  African Labour Research Network, 2004

  This report examines the liberalisation of the labour market in Africa from a gender perspective. It analyses current economic and labour policies of seven African countries to see their impact on the labour force and the organised labour movement in general, and women in particular.
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  Think local, act global: labour migration and emerging challenges of policymaking in a transnational world

  Canadian Foundation for the Americas, 2004

  This paper looks at the dynamics of international migration of labour as part of a process of mutual interdependence between sending and host areas.
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  Diaspora, migration and development in the Caribbean

  Canadian Foundation for the Americas, 2004

  This paper examines the developmental impact of the growth of the diasporic economy on Caribbean countries, focusing on the issues of remittances, diasporic exports, brain drain, as well as the new health and security risks associated with migration and mobile populations.It asks whether the benefits of migration such as remittances, diasporic exports and the vent of surplus population redress
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  Globalisation, urbanisation and changing food systems in developing countries

  Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2004

  As part of the FAO ‘State of Food Insecurity in the World 2004’, this chapter explores how the profound demographic and economic changes are rapidly transforming food systems and the scope and nature of nutritional challenges in the developing world.Key findings of the study include:following rapid urbanisation, rising income and rapid growth in imports of wheat and other commodities, t
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  The relationship between trade and sustainable development of agriculture in Central America

  Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2003

  This summary document highlights the main aspects of a study characterising the evolution of the agricultural sector in Central America over recent years and exploring ways to remove the negative environmental consequences and to promote conservation.Characteristics of the Central American agricultural sector include: the products that have demonstrated the most dynamism were based on t
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  Economic integration and the environment in El Salvador

  Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2004

  This paper examines the new environmental dynamics in el Salvador that resulted from shift from an agro-exporting economy to a remittance-driven urban based economy in the 1980s and 1990s.Main findings of the paper include:in the 1970s, rural environmental problems (deforestation, land degradation and pollution from agro-chemicals) were the most pressing issuescurrently, with increa

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