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  Undocumented migrants have rights: an overview of the international human rights framework

  Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants, 2007

  Why shouldn't we refer to undocumented migrants as “illegal” migrants? This guide gives an overview of the human rights which apply to undocumented migrants in international human rights law.
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  The role of domestic debt markets in economic growth: an empirical investigation for low-income countries and emerging markets

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2007

  In this paper the authors argue that domestic debt (DD) markets play an increasingly important role in supporting economic development in developing countries.
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  Does good government draw foreign capital? explaining China' s exceptional foreign direct investment inflow

  World Bank, 2007

  This paper explores the linkages between good governance and foriegn direct investment (FDI) in China, which is now the world 's largest destination of FDI, despite its institutional deficiencies. The analysis compares the quality of China’s institutions with other developing countries.
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  The world is still waiting: broken G8 promises are costing millions of lives

  Oxfam, 2007

  This report from Oxfam, written in the run up to the 2007 G8 summit, calls on G8 leaders to meet their promises to tackle global poverty, injustice and climate change. Despite some areas of real progress in the past two years, the report argues that overall progress has fallen far short of promises, the cost of which is millions of lives lost due to poverty.
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  Challenges of China’s economic reform

  The East Asian Bureau of Economic Research, 2007

  The analysis in this newsletter argues that China’s gradualist approach to economic reform has been very successful for the political leadership. The author argues that with large economic growth and increasing complexity the government now faces two new and major challenges: 
• Organisation

  Environment, Politics and Development Group (King's College, London) (EPD)

  The EPD Group constitutes one of the largest groups of researchers working on globalisation, development and the environment in the UK.
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  Multicultural Center Prague

  The Multicultural Center Prague wishes to:
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  Globalization and Health

  Globalization and Health is an Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal that provides a platform for research, knowledge sharing and debate on the topic of globalization and its effects on health
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  Chinese perceptions of traditional and non-traditional security threats

  Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College, 2007

  This paper investigates Chinese perceptions of threat and conceptions of national security, in an effort to better understand Chinese security thinking. The author visibly maintains a Chinese perspective by using Chinese sources from scholarly journals, official policy pronouncements, and personal interviews.
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  Measures of change: the demography and literacy of adolescent English learners

  Migration Policy Institute, 2007

  Who are immigrant students and students who do not speak English well? Where are they from? What is their family background (social, economic, linguistic, etc.)? How well do they do in school? Are they developing the literacy needed to take part in higher education and a skilled workforce?

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