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    Globalisation and employment: working for the poor?: id21 insights, issue 47

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    Globalisation is one of the most controversial development issues of the day. ‘Globaphobes’ attribute most of the ills of the world to globalisation. The anti-globalisation movement has focused attention on the extent to which decisions affecting the lives of millions of the world’s poorest people are made in international fora – at which the poor have no voice.
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    Regulating for development: id21 insights, issue 49

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    Developing countries are now being asked to follow developed countries in the privatisation of goods and services previously provided by the state. It is argued that these countries will gain from the creation of efficient markets which offer their best chance to establish competitiveness, leading to economic growth.
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    Harnessing trade for development: id21 insights, issue 59

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Developing countries cannot achieve sustainable growth and poverty reduction unless they integrate into the world economy. Trade reforms are necessary, but not enough to maximise the potential benefits of trade. Negotiations at the WTO Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong in December, 2005 should also focus on establishing an ‘aid for trade’ mechanism.
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    Debating GM crops: id21 insights, issue 52

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    The debate over genetically-modified (GM) crops is one of the most controversial and fiercely contested of recent times. While media coverage often focuses on disagreements between the United States and Europe, perhaps the main battleground today is the developing world. It is here that large markets are
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    Making business work for development: id21 insights, issue 54

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Business is everywhere. Some is crucial to development, while some is implicated in poverty, human rights abuses and environmental destruction. In recent years there has been an upturn in corporations taking responsibility for development challenges.
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    How pro-poor is tourism?: id21 insights, issue 62

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Pro-poor tourism should increase the benefits of the tourism industry for poor people. It is a term increasingly used by several development agencies, but what does it mean in practice? This issue of id21 insights, shows that some countries and businesses are beginning to achieve more direct benefits from pro-poor tourism.   Articles included:
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    Developing Women’s Entrepreneurship in the Papua Highlands

    International Labour Organization, 2010
    This briefing documents the progress of ILO’s Entrepreneurship Skills Development project, which ran in 2009 and 2010 in the Papua Highlands, Indonesia, as part of the UN joint programme for the area.
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    Enclaves of wealth and hinterlands of discontent: foreign mining companies in Africa's development

    Third World Network Africa, 2010
    This report comprises 8 papers that were presented at a conference organised in Ghana in 2008, on the theme: ‘Beyond Foreign Direct Investment in Africa’s Mining Sector’. The papers explore various financial and practical aspects of mining sector reform in sub-Saharan Africa.
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    Does partial privatization improve the environment?

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2010
    This working paper analyses the impact of privatisation on the environment, where the level of privatisation is endogenously determined. The paper clarifies that the production process in many industries emits pollutants, which damages the environment.
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    Adaptation to climate change: linking disaster risk reduction and insurance

    International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2010
    Development gains are increasingly at risk from climate change among other pressures. Adverse changes are already being observed in the amount, intensity, frequency and type of precipitation, resulting in drought, floods and tropical storms. Climate change threatens to undermine poorer countries to absorb loss and recover from disaster impacts.

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