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    Trading up: building cooperation between farmers and traders in Africa

    Royal Tropical Institute, 2008
    Value chains provide potential benefits for both rural producers and urban consumers. This book focuses on the role of traders, which it argues are not the villains that producers often paint them as, but play an equally important role within value chains.
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    The supermarket revolution in developing countries: policies for “Competitiveness with Inclusiveness"

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008
    The developing world has seen a marked increase in the number and types of supermarkets in its towns and cities. Although urbanisation and increased incomes have been important in the rise of supermarkets, other factors also played important roles.
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    New dimensions of adjustment to globalization

    LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, 2008
    This paper provides new evidence on the link between globalisation and firm dynamics, focusing on the case of Estonia. Using firm-level data for the years 1997-2005, it analyses the impact of international competition on firm dynamics, considering both firm closedown and product switching.
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    German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)

    The German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) is Germany’s national foreign policy network.
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    Putting the Mediterranean Union in perspective

    EuroMesco, 2008
    Following the French President, Nicholas Sarkozy’s agenda to promote a Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), this report provides an overview of the different perspectives existing in the main zones of the Euro-Med area. It particularly looks at perspectives from four areas - southern Europe, Germany, North Africa and Israel. Southern European perspective:
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    The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)

    The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) was established to coordinate economic, social, and related work of the 14 UN specialized agencies, functional commissions and five regional com
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    Financial globalisation and labor: employee shareholding or labor regression?

    Political Economy Research Institute, 2008
    With a focus on France and the United States, this paper reviews from a critical perspective the ‘patrimonial capitalism’ approach as well as its analysis of wage-labour transformations in developed economies during the last thirty years. It also focuses on an alternative interpretation that characterises the nature of wage-labour nexus transformation in the French and U.S.
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    Patients without borders: the emergence of medical tourism

    Public Citizen, 2006
    This article published by the Public Citizen Health Research Group, is the first in a two part series that focuses on medical tourism – travelling with the express purpose of obtaining health services abroad.
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    Credibility crunch: food, poverty, and climate change: an agenda for rich-country leaders

    Oxfam, 2008
    The year 2008 is halfway to the deadline for reaching the Millennium Development Goals. Despite some progress, this article argues that they will not be achieved if current trends continue.
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    Irregular migration from West Africa to the Maghreb and the European Union: an overview of recent trends

    International Organization for Migration, 2008
    The migrants themselves are commonly depicted as victims recruited by merciless and unscrupulous traffickers and smugglers. This paper highlights how due to this perceived image policy solutions usually involve fighting illegal immigration through intensifying border controls and cracking down trafficking and smuggling-related crime.

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