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    Biofuel and global biodiversity

    Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 2008
    How is the increasing demand of plant biomass for biofuels exacerbating agriculture’s impact on biodiversity? This document analyses how biofuels are changing land-use patterns in many regions around the world, including some of the most diverse and sensitive regions on the planet, and provides recommendations for moving biofuel production toward more sustainable systems.
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    Afghanistan and regional instability: a risk assessment

    Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2008
    This report examines Afghanistan’s regional challenges. It finds that domestic instability in Pakistan, strains in Pakistan–Afghanistan relations and insecurities associated with the US–Iran stand-off on Iran’s nuclear programme continue to pose the most significant regional risks to the stability of Afghanistan.
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    People and animals. Traditional livestock keepers: guardians of domestic animal diversity

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007
    The present variety of farm animal species and breeds is the result of centuries of local knowledge-based selection by traditional livestock keepers. However, domestic animal diversity is being lost at an alarming rate as local livestock breeds are crossed or replaced with higher-yielding animals.
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    Resources for Retirement

    Commercial company offering advisory services to retirement pension plan sponsors in the United States.
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    The graying of the great powers: Demography and geopolitics in the 21st Century - major findings of the report

    Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, 2008
    The report assesses how population ageing and population decline in the developed world may affect the ability of the United States and its traditional allies to maintain national and global security.
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    Intergenerational programmes: public policy and research implications. An international perspective

    UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2008
    Intergenerational programmes are vehicles for the purposeful and ongoing exchange of resources and learning among older and younger generations. This monograph presents the results of collaborative cross-country research and aims to aims to highlight the importance of intergenerational programmes, and to summarise key issues to underpin future research and policy development.
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    The Oakland Institute

    The Oakland Institute is a policy think tank whose mission is to increase public participation and promote fair debate on critical social, economic and environmental issues in both national and intern
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    Healthy @ home

    American Association of Retired Persons International Section, 2008
    Older adults and family caregivers are willing to use new technologies (such as telemedicine and telepharmacy) that can allow people to remain independent - and in their own homes - as they age.
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    The internationalisation of production, international outsourcing and employment in the OECD

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2007
    This paper reviews some of the possible changes that may occur in the national labour markets of many OECD countries as a result of international trade and the internationalisation of production by multinational companies. It focuses on the impact outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from OECD countries has on employment in the home country of the investing firms.
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    Has economic analysis improved regulatory decisions?

    Groupe d'Economie Mondiale, 2007
    This paper provides an assessment of government-supported economic analysis of regulation. It argues that while there is growing interest in the use of economic tools, such as benefit -cost analysis, the quality of analysis in the US and European Union frequently fails to meet widely accepted guidelines. The relationship between analysis and policy decisions is also found to be tenuous.

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