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    Dumping on the world: how EU sugar policies hurt poor countries

    Oxfam, 2004
    This paper details the issues surrounding the European Union’s policy with regards to the sugar market, discussing the implications for development countries.Highlights of the paper include:European Union sugar policies hamper global efforts to reduce povertyexport subsidies are used to dump five million tonnes of surplus sugar annually on world markets, destroying opportunities for
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    Technology and globalisation: who gains when commodities are de-commodified?

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004
    This paper, from the International Journal of Technology and Globalisation, discusses coffee markets, growers, the chain of production and consumers in the light of globalisation and technology.Conclusions of the paper include:coffee has long been characterised as a commodity with falling terms of trade and volatile pricesthere is a growing uneven distribution of income in the globa
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    Globalization and the economic well-being of citizens

    Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES), Egypt, 2001
    The past three decades have marked an era of economic integration between nations, even though different macroeconomic policies have been followed by different countries. Country's responses to changes in the external environment have been very different, but why?
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    Tracking gender equity under economic reforms: continuity and change in South Asia

    International Development Research Centre, 2003
    This book develops a new framework for gender analysis by demonstrating the importance of identifying the context of such analysis, and by highlighting the necessity of differentiating ‘gender’ per se from its various ‘indicators’.
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    Naomi Klein and the Anti-Globalization Movement

    Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, 2003
    This paper examines the writings of Naomi Klein, one of the leaders in the anti-globalization movement. The contents of her influential book No Logo are summarized and some problems with her analysis of globalisation are discussed.
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    Competing concepts of inequality in the globalization debate

    World Bank Publications, 2004
    This paper argues that differing value judgments in measuring inequality underlie the conflicting factual claims about how much poor people have shared in the economic gains from globalisation.
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    Analytical study of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the fundamental principle of non-discrimination in the context of globalization

    United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, 2004
    This report considers how globalisation has brought new attention to the principle of non-discrimination by:providing opportunities for increasing commercial and cultural exchangehighlighting inequalities within and between countriesIt argues that the prohibition of discrimination provides an essential principle for globalisation.
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    Sustaining income growth in a globalising world: the search for the Nth rent

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004
    This paper explores how economic agents, particularly developing country producers, can dynamically position themselves in the global economy so that they are able to sustain income growth.
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    A fair globalization: creating opportunities for all

    International Labour Organization, 2004
    This final report of the ILO’s World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization suggests how the potential of globalisation can be better harnessed to address the needs, concerns and aspirations of more people in the world.The report argues that globalisation can be a process with a strong social dimension based on universally shared values and respect for human rights and individual d
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    Towards a socially sustainable world economy: an analysis of the social pillars of globalization

    International Labour Organization, 2001
    This paper presents a synthesis of the main results of a study of the social impact of globalisation in seven countries (Bangladesh, Chile, the Republic of Korea, Mauritius, Poland, South Africa and Switzerland), and discusses a range of analytical and policy issues of relevance to International Labor Organization (ILO) member states.Findings include:globalisation is a multifaceted proc

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