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    The value chain approach for mountain development: case studies from Uttarakhand, India

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2013
    This working paper highlights that the level of poverty among mountain populations is linked, directly or indirectly, with specific mountain conditions like geographic isolation, socio-cultural marginalisation, poor physical and economic infrastructure and poor access to markets, technologies, and information.
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    Transport and the urban poor

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    he aim of the paper is to articulate necessary state interventions to improve transport services for the urban poor in South Africa. The paper forms part of a larger study intended to inform a strategic response to the challenges of the “second economy” in the South African urban areas.
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    Challenges of inclusive cities: making urban spaces and places for all

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    This paper looks at the duality of urban contexts in South Africa that is of unprecedented opulence on the one hand and remarkable deprivation on the other.
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    Creating access to economic opportunities in small and medium sized towns

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    Small towns are now seen as a necessary and important link to the development of rural regions, and the role of small towns as service centres, within a hierarchy of settlements, is emphasised. However, whereas the focus in the 1960s was on large-scale infrastructural projects, the new approach is to focus on developing local initiatives and resources for local development.
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    Development of the urban development component for a second economy strategy: overview analysis

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    Both in research and in practice there have been many ideas and interventions aimed at restructuring cities. In South Africa various programmes have been implemented to combat apartheid city form and address the needs of the urban poor. Amongst these the big projects and flagship programmes have had considerable success.
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    Employment intermediation for unskilled and low-skilled work seekers - part 1: overview of the Sector

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    Unemployment is one of the biggest challenges facing South Africa. Growth has been inadequate, the skills level requirement of new jobs is continually rising, current skills among the workforce are low and inadequate numbers of low end, unskilled jobs are being created.
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    Missing the trget: business development support to the second economy

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    The second economy refers to the people who are in a marginalised relationship to the mainstream economy. There is a complex but interrelated link between the second and the first economy which needs to be understood.
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    Towards a framework for achieving food security in the mountains of Pakistan

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2014
    This working paper outlines a mountain-specific framework for addressing food security in the mountains of Pakistan. It builds on efforts by ICIMOD together with the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) and the National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC) to understand the special issues of food security and find solutions in the mountain areas of Pakistan.
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    Income and non-income inequality in post-apartheid South Africa: what are the drivers and possible policy interventions?

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2009
    In South Africa, people with access to wealth experience the country as a developed modern economy, while the poorest still struggle to access even the most basic services.
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    Circular migration and employment in Southern Africa

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2009
    This paper proposes that non-temporary circular migration creates and sustains ‘circular migration flows’, which are the outcome of the continuous interaction between sending and receiving countries that is created and sustained by migration and by transnational networks.

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