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Worldwide guide to trade unions and works councils
Baker and McKenzie, 2010This book looks at the current state of works councils and trade unions for 33 countries around the world. Topics include: collective bargaining unfair labour practices trade union employee protections rights employee collective representatives the labour regulatory regimeDocumentHIV drug policies and south markets: settling controversies
Future Medicine, 2009Despite progress, antiretroviral therapy coverage in low- and middle-income countries remains poor: only 31% of HIV-infected people in need were receiving treatment in 2007.OrganisationBildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies
The Bildner Center brings together scholars, policymakers, civil society leaders, and other stakeholders to further understanding and foster policy-oriented research concerning the governance, securitDocumentSocial impacts of global cotton production
International Cotton Advisory Committee, 2008This paper reviews and categorises the most significant social science studies of labour and social impacts in cotton cultivation in ten focus countries, identified as the largest producers by volume. It identifies and evaluates the key existing data and information sources on the social impacts, positive and negative, of global cotton cultivation.DocumentA global realignment by 2020: U.S. decline, emerging economies rise
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2008Following the projection up until 2015 which predicted a falling dollar and a US recession in an earlier paper, this current document builds on that and projects outcomes for 2020 and assumes a sizable yearly U.S. fiscal stimulus for 2008-2011.DocumentBiofuel and global biodiversity
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 2008How 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.DocumentWho benefits from GM crops?
Friends of the Earth International, 2008This paper provides a fact-based assessment of Genetically Modified (GM) crops around the world.DocumentMobilizing the private sector for public education: a view from the trenches
World Bank, 2007The papers in this book, initially presented at a conference hosted by the World Bank and the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, demonstrate that public–private initiatives are widespread.DocumentMAC HIV and AIDS global survey
MAC AIDS Fund, 2007This study from the MAC AIDS Fund looks into the attitudes of 4,510 people in nine countries around the issue of HIV and AIDS. The results show a poor level of education about the HIV and AIDS epidemic; more than 40 percent of those interviewed across the nine countries do not believe that AIDS is always fatal.