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    Criteria and Indicators for Assessing the Sustainability of Forest Management : Conservation of Biodiversity

    Center for International Forestry Research, 1996
    Paper is merely a first step in creating a suitable framework for applying a proposed a set of forest biodiversity indicators and verifiers. The framework and the indicators and verifiers require field testing, and we fully expect there to be changes resulting from the field trials, which will be reflected in major improvements in their effectiveness.
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    Rational exploitations: Economic Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Management of Tropical Forests

    Center for International Forestry Research, 1998
    Paper aims to develop economic criteria and indicators that relate to the sustainable management of tropical forests. Covers the economic dimensions and issues associated with C&I design.Paper aims to synthesize some of this‘non-C&I’ literature, with a view to distilling some key lessons that are of relevance to C&I design within the forestry sector.
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    Criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management, CIFOR

    Center for International Forestry Research, 1998
    Project of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) to identify key elements in forest management, i.e. biophysical, biodiversity, socio-economic or policy indicators, to provide clear information on the sustainability of the benefits and services from forests.WWW site includes full text of reports from the project, newsletter
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    Inspections and emissions in India : puzzling survey evidence on industrial water pollution

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
    In a sample of industrial plants in India, direct community pressure on plants does not appear to play a major role in reducing emissions. Nor do formal inspections, possibly because of the low probability of enforcement and the low penalties for noncompliance.
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    Real wages and the demand for skilled and unskilled male labour in Ghana's manufacturing sector : 1991-1995

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997
    Real wage rates in Ghana have fallen substantially over the last twenty years. In this paper survey data for the years 1991-1996 is used to assess whether this fall has continued in the 1990s.
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    TRIPS versus CBD: Conflicts between the WTO regime of intellectual property rights and sustainable biodiversity management

    GRAIN, 1998
    The Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) Agreement of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) threatens to make the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) impossible to implement. Yet as an international commitment, the CBD is as legally binding and authoritative as TRIPs. Well over 130 countries adhere to both treaties.
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    Rates of return on physical and human capital in Africa's manufacturing sector

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998
    In this paper two sets of issues are addressed using panel data from the manufacturing sector of five African countries. First, how high are the returns to human relative to physical capital. Second, what is the relative importance of technology and endowments of human and physical capital in determining differences in earnings and productivity across the countries.
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    NAFTA Supplemental Agreements: Four Year Review

    Institute for International Economics, USA, 1998
    Examines the objectives and accomplishments to date of the NAAEC and the NAALC.1 It also includes a discussion of the USA-Mexico Border Environmental Cooperation Agreement (BECA) which was designed to address environmental infrastructure problems in the US-Mexican border region.
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    Environmental changes and human health: World Resources Report 1998-99

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 1998
    Focuses on the critical issue of environmental change and human health. Drawing on the latest scientific data, report explores how environmental conditions contribute to the current burden of death and disease around the world and how that may change over the coming decades.
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    Financial Flows and the Environmental Strategy in Indonesia in the 1990s

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 1998
    Examination of the rises and falls in international public financial flows to Indonesia; the re-emergence of the International Monetary Fund as a major investor in the economy; and a proposed agenda for Indonesia's environmental movement.

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