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  The Socio-Economic Dynamics of Farmers' Management of Local Plant Genetic Resources: A Framework for Analysis with Examples from a Tanzanian Case

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999

  Discusses the debate around farmers' management of local plant genetic resources. It seek to develop a theoretical framework for analysing farmers management of plant genetic resources using examples from fieldwork carried out in 1995-1997 among farmers in Tanzania with a focus on the 1994/95 growing season.
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  Agricultural biotechnology and the poor: conference proceedings

  Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 1999

  Proceedings of conference held in October 1999 and convened by CGIAR and the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS)Topic of papers includeCountry studies: China, India, Philippines, Thailand, Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Egypt, Iran Jordan, Kenya, South Africa, ZimbabweControlling Environmental RisksMinimizing Health RisksMinimizing Social RisksEthics and Biotechnology
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  Promoting the competitiveness of textiles and clothing manufacture in South Africa

  Equity and Growth through Economic Research, 1999

  Summarises the findings of a study carried out in 1997-1998 of the textile and clothing industries of South Africa. The research combined quantitative and qualitative competitiveness analysis to identify best practices used by South African manufacturing firms. The country’s textile and clothing sector benefited greatly from domestic market protection.
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  The Manufactures Terms of Trade of Developing Countries with the United States, 1981-97

  Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2000

  There is an ongoing debate on whether or not developing countries suffer a trend deterioration in their terms of trade in their exchange of manufactures with developed countries.
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  Why liberalization alone has not improved agricultural productivity in Zambia: the role of asset ownership and working capital constraints

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  In the early 1990s, Zambia initiated an ambitious program of liberalization that significantly opened the economy, shifting from a highly regulated and centralized to a more market-based and liberal economic paradigm.
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  Measuring governance, corruption, and state capture: how firms and bureaucrats shape the business environment in transition economies

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  Corruption thrives where states are too weak to control their own bureaucrats, to protect property and contract rights, and to provide the institutions that underpin an effective rule of law.
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  Engendering development

  Gendernet, World Bank, 2000

  Draft Policy Research Report examines the conceptual and empirical links between gender, public policy, and development outcomes and demonstrates the value of applying a gender perspective to the design of development policies.The evidence presented shows that societies that discriminate by gender pay a high price in terms of their ability to develop and to reduce poverty.
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  Globalization: Threat or Opportunity?

  International Monetary Fund, 2000

  Short overview of some aspects of globalization, aiming to identify ways in which countries can tap the gains of this process, while remaining realistic about its potential and its risks.Concludes that:as globalization has progressed, living conditions (particularly when measured by broader indicators of well being) have improved significantly in virtually all countries.
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  Assessing Globalization: briefing papers

  Development Economics Vice Presidency, World Bank, 2000

  Series of World Bank Briefing Papers looks at how to define globalization and then assesses three leading questions about globalization by looking at the evidence from a large number of countries. Is globalization increasing world poverty?
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  Readiness for the networked world: a guide for developing countries

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2000

  Looks at the readiness of developing countries to participate in the "networked economy": electronic commerce and related applications of information and communication technologies (ICTs)The guide describes the determinants of a community’s Readiness for the Networked World, and a diagnostic tool that systematically examines those factors to assess a community’s Readiness.

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