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    Hyundai crisis: its development and resolution

    Korea Development Institute, 2002
    What caused the crisis in Hyundai in the late 1990s?
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    Corporate bankruptcy system and economic crisis in Korea

    Korea Development Institute, 2002
    After the economic crisis broke in 1997, Korea undertook a piecemeal reform of the corporate bankruptcy system, maintaining the existing legal framework intact. So what, if anything, did the reforms achieve?
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    Alternative approach to poverty measurement: an experiment with Thai data

    Thailand Development Research Institute, 2000
    Calculating poverty incidence using the method originally developed by the World Bank in the late 1970s, which has traditionally been the method employed by TDRI in calculating the poverty incidence in Thailand, ignores several fundamental changes of factors constituting the calculation of poverty incidence.
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    Technology policies and acquisition of technological capabilities in the industrial sector: a comparative analysis of the Indian and Korean experience

    Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2001
    This paper reviews the science and technology policy of India and Korea in a comparative perspective to draw relevant lessons for India. It shows that policies, strategies and structures of science and technology evolved under a planned development approach in both Korea and India.
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    What is poverty and how to measure it?

    Thailand Development Research Institute, 2001
    How does poverty measurement affect poverty policy? This paper examines the different prevailing definitions of poverty, and attempts to reconcile these seemingly different definitions.
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    Above the law: corruption, collusion, nepotism and the fate of Indonesia’s forests

    Environmental Investigation Agency, UK, 2002
    This campaign document states that despite logging bans in Indonesia, local corruption in government and the judiciary is rampant and officials are tacitly allowing the continued destruction of forests.The document discusses evidence of the involvement of law officials and the military. It discusses the environmental implications of logging on such a scale in protected areas.
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    Rice trade liberalisation and poverty

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002
    This paper explores the important link between rice trade liberalisation and poverty, seeking specifically to respond to two questions: What would be the effect of freer trade in rice on trade flow patterns? How will rice trade liberalisation and consequent rice price equalisation across countries influence the prevalence of poverty in the poorer economies?
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    Distance education for basic education in the E9 countries

    2002
    This paper explores the successes or otherwise of the use of distance education to increase levels of basic education in the E-9 countries which share similar issues in terms of high population and relatively low levels of basic education completion.The document details the ways in which countries have used distance education:it has occasionally been used either as an alternative to fo
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    Preliminary assessment on trafficking of children and women for labour exploitation in Lao PDR

    International Labour Organization, 2001
    This preliminary assessment is to provide current insights on trafficking of children and women for labour exploitation in Lao PDR. It attempts to present several character profiles of children and women at risk of trafficking, typifying selected villages and families in Khammuane, Savannakhet and Champassak Provinces.
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    Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs): an assessment of the ILO’s experience

    International Labour Organization, 2002
    The ILO has undertaken PRSP-related activities in a number of countries including five special focus countries (Cambodia, Honduras, Mali, Nepal and the United Republic of Tanzania), especially in Africa where the policy environment is so closely aligned to the development of PRSPs.This paper looks at the value-added of the ILO and its social partners in contributing to PRSPs and helping low-i

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