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    Repositioning the Caribbean within globalisation

    Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2007
    Under the backdrop of the Commonwealth Caribbean moving toward a new technocratic model of development to reposition itself within the global economy, this paper examines three key policy agendas that have emerged to drive, guide and inform this process: competitiveness, diplomacy and governance. It focuses on highlighting progress made and problems encountered.
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    The new social and economic order in 21st century China: can the government bring a kinder, gentler mode of development?

    Oxford University Library, 2008
    This paper addresses the new turn in China‘s development paradigm and assesses its prospects, focusing particularly on whether the government will be able to improve rural public services, and reverse the trend of growing inequality. This assessment is done through the lens of fiscal policies, the primary instrument for the government in implementing the new paradigm.
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    China’s political trajectory: internal contradictions and inner-party democracy

    Brookings Institution, 2008
    In today’s increasingly interconnected global environment, this paper looks at the Chinese political landscape and the possibility of a shift away from the communist system, and towards significant political change.
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    China and the future of the developing world: the coming global-Asian era and its consequences

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2008
    China is beginning to reshape the world, presaging a new phase of globalisation: a ‘global-Asian era’. This new era is likely to be distinct from any of the earlier phases of globalisation and China’s global footprint, in terms of its business, economic and political actions and their geopolitical implications, is likely to be markedly different from what has gone before.
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    China's growing economic activity in Africa

    Open University Asian Drivers Programme, 2008
    Under the backdrop of China’s increasing trade with Africa, this paper evaluates claims that China is now a dominant influence in Africa and assess what factors underlay this phenomenon.
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    The challenges of implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

    Tebtebba Foundation, Phillippines, 2008
    This paper discusses the implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). The paper was presented at a summit in Japan and pays particular attention to the G8 and the role they can play.
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    Global Union Research Network (GURN)

    The GURN is a cooperation project of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC) , the Global Union Federations (GUFs), the ILO's Internat
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    Economic nationalism in motion: steel, auto and software industries in India

    Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (NUS), 2007
    Economic nationalism is not inconsistent with globalisation. This paper contends that, just because global integration links foreign economies and allows transnational corporations to penetrate far-flung markets through organisational and technological flexibilities, does not mean the disappearance of economic nationalism.
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    LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance

    Since its foundation in 1991 LICOS has been at the centre of top-level theoretical and empirical research of micro- and macro-economic aspects of transition.
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    Getting out of the food crisis

    GRAIN, 2008
    The current food crisis is focusing attention on the way food reaches some of the most disadvantaged people in the world. In this edition of GRAIN's Seedling magazine, a collection of articles highlight the less discussed aspects of the food crisis and responses to it.

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