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    Feel! Think! Act!: A guide to interactive drama for sexual and reproductive health with young people

    International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2008
    Drama and creative interaction can be a good way to draw out discussion and reflection on areas that are taboo, personal or difficult to share. This toolkit looks at how readers can use interactive drama to work with young people to improve sexual and reproductive health (SRH).
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    Terrorism in the Maghreb: the transnationalisation of domestic terrorism

    Institute for Security Studies, 2008
    International developments and challenges and domestic circumstances predominately fuel domestic terrorism. This is particularly true when assessing the 'renewed' threat of terrorism in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.
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    OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030: a summary

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2008
    The OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030 provides analyses of economic and environmental trends to 2030, and simulations of policy actions to address the key challenges.
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    Tackling poverty with minimum wages in Brazil

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Minimum wage legislation aims to tackle poverty by increasing the wages of the lowest-paid and most vulnerable workers. But evidence on the impact of minimum wages in developing countries, both in the public and private sectors, is not always conclusive. What impact is minimum wage legislation having on jobs and wages in Brazil?
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    Making free trade work for women in Southern Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Trade agreements are being negotiated between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. While the treaties are meant to promote free trade and economic growth, their impacts on women will not necessarily be positive. Gender analysis must be part of trade negotiations if women are to share in the benefits.
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    Making corporate social responsibility effective

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a badge of respectability for major companies. But voluntary initiatives to promote socially responsible business practices can never replace protective legislation. Nevertheless, financial incentives would increase their effectiveness and improved inspectorates could encourage small and medium sized firms to improve their labour practices.
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    Making choices: a framework for industrial policy

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Deciding how to configure relationships with the global economy is a difficult task for policymakers, given the many choices and pressures.  The essence of different policy regimes can be brought out by distinguishing between low and high support for industry on the one hand, and between low and high challenge levels on the other.
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    A global realignment by 2020: U.S. decline, emerging economies rise

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2008
    Following the projection up until 2015 which predicted a falling dollar and a US recession in an earlier paper, this current document builds on that and projects outcomes for 2020 and assumes a sizable yearly U.S. fiscal stimulus for 2008-2011.
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    Why is China following a capital-deepening development path?

    School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2008
    This paper summarises and evaluates some of the most important features of China’s development strategy. It looks at recent trends in China’s development thinking and discusses future implications of the current strategy.
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    The interpretation of globalization amongst Chinese business leaders: a managerial and organizational cognition approach

    Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2008
    Since the 1980s China is one of the few countries that has embraced and benefited from economic globalisation. Much of what has been reported about the impact of globalisation is based on macroeconomic and social analyses, often neglecting the meaning and impact of globalisation at the individual level.

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