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  Population and environmental change: from linkages to policy issues

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 1999

  Population dynamics, poverty and environmental change are linked in many ways and through multiple social and economic mechanisms, at various geographic levels. But not all those linkages have relevance for policy formulation in one of the three domains thus interconnected.
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  Openness, sustainability, and public participation in transboundary river-basin institutions

  Office of Arid Land Studies University of Arizona, 1998

  Existing analyses of water compacts fall short by ignoring place, a vital component when considering the viability of treaties. omprehensive examinations of how international river basins are managed are also markedly lacking.
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  Good Governance and Trade Policy: Are They the Keys to Africa's Global Integration and Growth?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Model testing the influence of trade and governance policies on economic performanceTurning the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa around requires badly needed national policy reform—abandoning the region's restrictive fiscal, monetary, property, and wage policies and trade barriers.
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  Intellectual Property Rights and Biodiversity: The Economic Myths

  GRAIN, 1999

  Examines the economic costs and benefits of the WTO's Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs), with special regard for developing countries and their wealth of biological diversity.
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  Environment benefits from removing trade restrictions and distortions: background for WTO negotiations

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  The interaction between environmental policies and trade policies emerged as an issue at the end of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in 1994.
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  Global Trade expansion and liberalisation: gender issues and impacts

  BRIDGE, 1998

  A major challenge for development policy aimed at reducing poverty is to enable a more equitable distribution of the gains associated with trade expansion and liberalisation. This requires a better understanding of why some countries and social groups are able to benefit more than others from increasing trade flows.
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  Alternatives for the Americas

  Global Exchange, 1998

  an international effort to create positive alternatives to the neoliberal model imposed from above by international capital.The document addresses the major topics on the official agenda of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiators (investment, finance, intellectual property rights, agriculture, market access and dispute resolution), as well as topics that are of extreme social im
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  Trade liberalisation and women

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 1999

  WWW site for UNIFEM programme on women and international trade. Aims to bring together relevant data on trade issues and their gender-differentiated impact on womenIncludes an overview of issues, list of acronyms, calandar of trade-related events.
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  The global trading system and the developing countries in 2000

  Institute for International Economics, USA, 1999

  Sketches the pattern of global trade policy that has been evolving over the past couple of decades. Then analyzes the contemporary threats to the trading system, with considerable emphasis on the trade policy of the United States, and propose a strategy to avoid a renewed slide toward protectionism around the world.
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  The continuing Asian financial crisis: global adjustment and trade

  Institute for International Economics, USA, 1999

  Uses a multi-region computable general equilibrium model to analyze the impact of the Asian crisis thus far, highlighting the implications of possible future developments in Japan and China. The main conclusion is that depreciation of the yen would tend to have an adverse impact on the rest of Asia, even if Japanese growth were to be restored.

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