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Integration of biodiversity into national agriculture sectors
United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2002This report is one of eight thematic reviews prepared for the Biodiversity Planning Support Programme (BPSP), a programme created to help countries strengthen national capacity to prepare and implement National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans in compliance with Article 6 of the Convention on Biological Diversity. The study consists of the following chapters: managing agriculDocumentDraft ministerial declaration: proposal from a group of developing countries.
World Trade Organization, 2001Draft proposal by a grouping of less developed and developing countries for a declaration at the fourth WTO ministerial conference in Doha, Qatar. Outlines the general position of those countries with respect to implementation of the TRIPS agreement. The same URL has links to the contrasting developed countries draft proposal along with reporting on the discussion.DocumentIntergovernmental fiscal transfer in nine countries : lessons for developing countries
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997How nine major countries—Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States—handle intergovernmental fiscal transfers, with an emphasis on equalization transfers and a special look at fiscal transfers in China.DocumentCapital Controls: Country Experiences with Their Use and Liberalization
International Monetary Fund, 2000Aims to develop a deeper understanding of the role that capital controls may play in coping with volatile movements of capital, as well as complex issues surrounding capital account liberalization. It provides a detailed analysis of specific country cases to shed light on the potential benefits or costs of capital controls, including those used in crisis situations.DocumentAgricultural biotechnology and the poor: conference proceedings
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 1999Proceedings of conference held in October 1999 and convened by CGIAR and the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS)Topic of papers includeCountry studies: China, India, Philippines, Thailand, Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Egypt, Iran Jordan, Kenya, South Africa, ZimbabweControlling Environmental RisksMinimizing Health RisksMinimizing Social RisksEthics and BiotechnologyDocumentState-Community synergies in development: laying the basis for collective action
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000This article suggests that higher levels of the state can catalyze the development effectiveness of local administrations and communities, forming alliances with them and improving development outcomes while also gaining legitimacy and popular support.DocumentThe application of appropriate agricultural technology and practices and their impact on food security and the eradication of poverty: lessons learned from selected community-based experiences
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2001The six case studies presented in this paper intend to show the impact of the application of agricultural technologies in improving food security and eradicating poverty, and lessons to be learned in terms of "best practices " in approach and in implementation processes.The case studies provide the following useful lessons for using community-based methods to promote the adoption of new technolDocumentGlobalisation and supply chain networks: the auto industry in Brazil and India
Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999Examines the restructuring of the auto industry, and in particular the auto components sector in Brazil and India. In both countries, trade liberalisation and changes in auto industry policy led to large nflows of FDI and major changes in auto industry structure in the 1990s.