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    Engaging neoliberal conservation

    Conservation and Society, 2008
    The growing body of work on the 'neoliberalisation of nature' has paid little attention to conservation policy and its impacts. Similarly, studies of conservation have generally overlooked the broader context of neoliberalism. This latest edition of Conservation and Society journal explores what can be gained by seeing conservation through a neoliberal lense.
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    Challenges for Public Private Partnerships in vaccine development

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria continue to have a devastating impact in the developing world. The emergence of Public Private Partnerships focusing on the development of vaccines and medicines offers new hope for treatment and prevention, as long as they can balance the differing interests that drive each sector.
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    Corporate social responsibility is helping business, not society

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Does corporate social responsibility really make for socially responsible corporations? We need to understand its impacts if it is to benefit society rather than simply make companies feel good about themselves. This is particularly important if the private sector wants to become a partner in international development.
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    International investment agreements, business and human rights: key issues and opportunities

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2008
    This paper responds to the need to identify and understand the linkages between international investment agreements (IIAs) and the debate on business and human rights. It provides a broad-based review of these linkages, focusing on the existing IIAs, and their relationship to business and human rights issues.
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    The RORG Network

    The RORG-network is a network of Norwegian NGOs engaged in Development Education in Norway.
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    Understanding unemployment in the Arab countries: towards a policy framework

    Arab Planning Institute, Kuwait, 2008
    Unemployment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is currently at a historical high, which may appear puzzling given economic growth in the region.
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    Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

    The Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) is an independent unit of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with close ties to the Department of Economics.
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    Agribusiness in South Asia: a fact sheet

    Make Trade Fair Campaign, Oxfam International, 2007
    This paper reviews the nature, profile and functioning of South Asia’s agribusiness sector which has been undergoing rapid changes in the wake of globalisation. Its principal focus is the impact of agribusiness corporations, supermarket chains and such agencies on primary producers and rural poverty reduction.
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    Africa’s success: evaluating accomplishments

    John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2007
    This paper evaluates the seven presumed African success stories: Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, Ghana, Tanzania, Mozambique and Uganda. It gives a detailed analysis of the economic, political, governance and human development scenarios in each country, and identifies the emerging challenges.
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    Good state-business relations help Zambian firms

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Good relations between the public and private sectors have been shown to contribute to economic growth. But less is known about the impact on individual businesses (known as firms), especially in sub-Saharan Africa. How do state-business relations affect firm performance in Africa?

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