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    Age related policies: a global review on age discrimination legislation

    International Federation on Ageing, 2008
    Discrimination on grounds of age tends to invoke less public revulsion than acts of racial or gender discrimination, as it is considered less likely to be based on malicious intent. While this assertion about intent may be true in certain cases, the effects of discrimination upon the quality of lives of older people are nonetheless significant.
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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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    African Youth Movement (AYM)

    Formed in march 2002, the African Youth Movement [AYM] is involved with youths from Africa in integrated water resources management, poverty reduction and advocacy for climate change and the Millenniu
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    HIV/Aids: a war on women

    Open Democracy, 2008
    Numerous countries and foundations are admirably desperate to do something to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS. This article in Open Democracy argues how international HIV/AIDS policy, led by the United States, is discriminating against those it needs to help most. The author examines how public health policies and legislation are being introduced which are not actually rooted in women's experiences.
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    Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota

    The Minnesota Population Center (MPC) is a University-wide interdisciplinary cooperative for demographic research.The MPC has a special focus on large-scale demographic infrastructure projects.One of
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    Saving lives now: Female condoms and the role of U.S. foreign aid

    2008
    Although the female condom is an effective tool for HIV prevention that is available today, this method is not readily accessible throughout the world. The U.S. has an important role in female condom procurement, distribution, and programming and is one of the largest procurers for international distribution.
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    Is full employment possible under globalisation?

    Political Economy Research Institute, 2008
    When an economy operates at a high employment level - at something approaching full employment - this creates as a matter of course a high level of overall purchasing power in the economy, since people will have more money in their pockets to spend.
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    Responding to China in Africa

    Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, 2008
    This paper explores the development of China’s strategy in Africa with particular attention to Beijing’s objectives and methods, while highlighting the implications of China’s approach for United States’ relations with African countries.
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    Global Policy Innovations Program

    Global Policy Innovations program provides a forum for pragmatic alternatives to the current global economic order.  It highlights the best new thinking on a fairer globalization
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    A trojan horse behind Chinese walls?: problems and prospects of US-sponsored "rule of law" reform projects in the People's Republic of China

    Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2000
    The US government has announced an initiative to promote the 'rule of law' in the People’s Republic of China. However, though China has also endorsed building the rule of law as a goal, the American and Chinese views of what rule of law entails differ substantially.

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