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  WTO and product-related environmental standards

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2003

  This article examines, in the Indian context, the issues of the linkage between exports from developing countries and the regulatory standards set by developed-country importers for food safety, quality and environmental norms.
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  Rice trade liberalisation and poverty

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper explores the important link between rice trade liberalisation and poverty, seeking specifically to respond to two questions: What would be the effect of freer trade in rice on trade flow patterns? How will rice trade liberalisation and consequent rice price equalisation across countries influence the prevalence of poverty in the poorer economies?
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  Distance education for basic education in the E9 countries

  2002

  This paper explores the successes or otherwise of the use of distance education to increase levels of basic education in the E-9 countries which share similar issues in terms of high population and relatively low levels of basic education completion.The document details the ways in which countries have used distance education:it has occasionally been used either as an alternative to fo
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  Fine grain-Finance: financial choice and strategy among the poor in rural North India

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2002

  This report gives a description of the financial life of residents with a limited basis for cash-crop and off-farm opportunities, hence restricting them to size of landholding as a critical indicator of wealth and status and influences access to cheap bank finance.The authors demonstrates that the use of informal mechanisms like reciprocal gifts, interest-free lending and borrowing and takin
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  Social security for the unorganized in India: an approach paper

  Eldis Document Store, 2002

  This paper suggests that traditionally the ILO and ministries of labour the world over believed that all workers would eventually end up in large enterprises, or at least in the formal sector. However, experience has proved otherwise. On the contrary, voluntary retirement schemes, out sourcing employment and casualization have become the key words of the corporate world these days.
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  India’s trade potential in audio-visual services and the GATS

  Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2002

  This study examines the prospects of liberalising trade in audio-visual services and its costs and benefits under the GATS framework. Audio-visual services include films, music, television software and radio programmes and also post-production facilities, computer animations and graphics.
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  India: health briefing paper

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 1999

  Following independence in 1947, India and its leaders believed that an interventionist industry-led approach to development was the key to eradicating poverty. Ambitious targets were set for the expansion of health services, according to strictly defined population based norms which would be provided free at the point of service.
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  AIDS, public policy and child well-being

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2001

  This paper presents the findings of a global study carried out in 2000 on the specific impact of HIV/AIDS on children.
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  Milking the CAP: how Europe's dairy regime is devastating livelihoods in the developing world

  Oxfam, 2002

  EU surpluses of milk and milk products are dumped on world markets using costly export subsidies, which destroy people’s livelihoods in some of the world’s poorest countries.Dairy dumping is a worrying problem because milk producers in developing countries cannot compete effectively with European milk producers who are heavily subsidised by their governments.
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  Towards universal health care coverage: a goal-oriented framework for policy analysis

  Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 2000

  Whether funded through taxes or by contributions to social insurance schemes, many industrialised countries ensure their populations have access to affordable healthcare when needed.

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