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  Is Globalization Today Really Different than Globalization a Hundred Years Ago?

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1999

  Paper pursues the comparison of economic integration today and pre 1914 for trade as well as finance, primarily for the United States but also with reference to the wider world.
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  Gender, informality and poverty: a global review of gender bias in female informal employment and incomes in developing countries

  Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing, 1998

  examines the evidence from countries on female informal employment and incomes. It traces the recent trends in female employment as well as its structure in developing countries using aggregate data. Women participation in the labor force has risen in most countries, which is also reflected in the changing sex composition of the total labor force. Women’s share in total labor force has risen.
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  Global Environment Outlook 2000 (GEO 2), UNEP

  Global Environment Outlook Report and Project, UNEP, 1999

  Analyses both global and regional issues: key finding is that the continued poverty of the majority of the planet's inhabitants and excessive consumption by the minority are the two major causes of environmental degradation. The present course is unsustainable and postponing action is no longer an option..
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  Trade Policy (gender issues)

  BRIDGE, 1999

  As research reveals far-reaching gender implications of liberalisation, women's organisations are seeking to influence trade negotiations through the WTO.
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  Intellectual property rights and globalization: implications for developing countries

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 1999

  Reviews the implications of the agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) under the World Trade Organization (WTO). It focuses on the national implemention of the TRIPS agreement, technological development, plant variety protection, geopgraphical indications, and biological diversity and the associated indigenous knowledge.
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  Assessing Environmental Effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA): An Analytic Framework (Phase II) and Issue Studies

  NAFTA Commission for Environmental Cooperation, 1999

  methodology for examining the environmental effects of NAFTA. This methodology represents the ongoing work of a team of more than two dozen people, with advice from dozens of other experts and stakeholders from the three countries.
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  Database for the ILO Task Force's study on the social impact of globalization in South Africa

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 1999

  Downloadable database of South African statistical data from 1993 to 1997 compiled from various sources on production, investment, trade, employment and earnings.In most cases the data cover only the so-called formal business sector. The source of these data is establishment surveys. Unregistered enterprises and most self-employed persons are thus excluded by definition.
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  Environmental Regulation and International Competitiveness: A Review of Literature and Some European Evidence

  United Nations University Institute for New technologies, 1998

  The impact of environmental regulation on competitiveness is a major issue of concern to policy makers.
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  Agriculture and Non-agricultural Liberalization in the Millennium Round

  Global Trade Analysis Project, 1999

  Reviews the experiences of developing countries with the changes to agricultural trade protection during the Uruguay Round process. Considers the effects of relying on bulk agricultural commodties exportTariff rates on industrial products have fallen framatically since 1947, but tarriffs on agricultural commodities have actually increased.
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  Would Developing Countries Gain from Inclusion of Manufactures in the WTO Negotiations?

  Global Trade Analysis Project, 1999

  Evaluates the implications of including manufactures trade liberalization in the WTO 2000 negotiations for the developing countries. The approach takes into account the dramatic changes in the pattern of trade since the lead-up to the Uruguay Round. It also projects the global economy to the year 2005, when the UR is to be fully implemented.

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