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  How does stronger protection of intellectual property rights affect seed supply?: early evidence of impact

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999

  Is there evidence to indicate that early benefits have, in fact, been gained by the world s main biotechnology and seed companies? What will be the consequences for developing countries? Will IPR legislation result in better varieties becoming available more quickly? Will it encourage local plant breeding or will IPR predominantly strengthen the market position of foreign seed companies?
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  The Indigenous People's Fund: an innovative mechanism in support of the ethnodevelopment of the indigenous people of Latin America and the Caribbean (IDB)

  1999
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  Private enforcement of environmental regulations in Latin America and the Caribbean: an effective instrument for environmental management? (IDB)

  1999
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  The worldwide magnitude of protein-energy malnutrition: an overview from the WHO Global Database on Child Growth

  World Health Organization, 1993

  Using the WHO Global Database on Child Growth, which covers 87% of the total population of under-5-year olds in developing countries, we describe the world wide distribution of protein-energy malnutrition, based on nationally representative cross-sectional data gathered between 1980 and 1992 in 79 developing countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Oceania.
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  Implementing a New Indicator of Social Development in Mexico: Literate Life Expectancy (LLE) (Medina / IIASA)

  International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 1999

  For scientists, measuring social development has been a long-lasting objective; for the public, it has been a partially-resolved demand. Social indicators have been used informally for a very long time, particularly in economics, to assess the state of the nation and progress towards national objectives.
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  Cotton Production Prospects for the Next Decade [based on studies in Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Mali, Mexico, Pakistan, Tanzania and Uzbekistan]. (ICAC)

  International Cotton Advisory Committee, 1999
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  Agricultural and rural development policy in Latin America: new directions and new challenges (de Janvry / Sadoulet / Key)

  Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Berkeley, 1999
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  Guyana / Les Guyanes: ethnic/linguistic groups, land use, research projects (FTRP / APFT)

  Future of Tropical Rainforest Peoples, 1999
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  Uncertainty and global warming : an option - pricing approach to policy

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  How does uncertainty about the extent of global warming affect decision making to reduce it? Which policy options to choose and how long to delay implementing them?Uncertainty is inherent in the analysis of global warming issues.
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  Human capital and industry wage structure in Guatemala

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  A model of endogenous growth is used to test the effect of education on wage differentials.The presence and persistence of substantial wage differentials between industries has been documented.

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