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    Age and gender effects on time discounting in a large scale cash transfer programme

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    Inter-temporal choice represents one of the most fascinating topics in economics. Understanding its determinants can provide vital in sight into decisions ranging from savings and financial investment to smoking, obesity and human capital accumulation.
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    Benefiting commercially from untapped plant natural resources: caper as a case study

    AgEcon Search, 2015
    Syria is considered an important natural habitat for wildlife plants and animals. This paper addresses one of the most agricultural sub-sectors that are still lacking adequate exploitation in Syria, which is the wild plants, focusing particularly on caper as a case study.
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    Safeguarding Africa’s natural heritage: the case of mining in protected areas

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    Protected areas (PAs) are conservation management tools designed to safeguard the world’s most threatened species and protect essential ecosystem services and biological resources. Africa is home to 7,000 registered PAs, of which only 41 are listed under UNESCO’s natural World Heritage site status.
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    Building resilience of SIDS through agricultural trade and agribusiness development

    Small Island Economies - CTA Brussels, 2014
    Small islands face a greater risk of marginalisation due to the combined adverse consequences of their small size, remoteness from large markets and high economic vulnerability to economic and natural shocks beyond domestic control. This reader gives an overview of the main challenges and opportunities for agribusiness development in SIDS.
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    India's FTAs with East and SE Asia: impact of India-Malaysia CECA on the edible oil value chain

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015
    This paper formulates an analytical framework to assess the impacts of India's Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on commodity value chains. Existing academic literature have relied on examining Balance of Payments (BoP) to assess the impact of FTAs. The paper views such methodology as reductionist, and instead others alternative lenses of the impacts on the commodity value chain.
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    Promoting successful transitions to employment for Egyptian youth

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015
    This Policy Perspective argues that active labor market policies, such as public employment schemes, wage subsidies, job search assistance, and skills training have not been effective in improving the quantity or quality of employment for youth in the Middle East and North Africa region and will likely not be very effective in the future.
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    Gender, enterprise ownership, and labor allocation in MENA: the roles of Islam, oil, and government policies

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015
    This paper documents a relatively low share of women among small and medium enterprise (SME) owners in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This phenomenon appears to be related to the low female labour force participation (LFP) rates commonly observed in the region.
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    India exclusion report 2013-14

    Centre for Equity Studies, 2014
    By consolidating and generating knowledge around exclusion, the India Exclusion Report seeks to inform public opinion and debate on these issues, and to influence the political class and policy makers towards more inclusive, just and equitable governance.It is hoped that the report will serve as a tool to support public action for the greater inclusion of disadvantaged and marginalised communit
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    Corporate social responsibility in South Africa’s mining industry: an assessment

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    The corporate social responsibility (CSR) agenda has been a part of the global debate on socio-economic development for many decades. Countless claims have been made that CSR can contribute towards more
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    End review of the REDD+ pilot project implemented by the Jane Goodall Institute in Kigoma, Tanzania. Final report.

    The Norwegian Embassy in Tanzania, 2014
    The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) represented by the Royal Norwegian Embassy (RNE)  in  Tanzania  funded  the Jane  Goodall  Institute  (JGI) REDD+ Pilot Project - “Building REDD Readiness in the Masito-Ugalla Ecosystem Pilot area in Support of Tanzania’s National REDD Strategy”.

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