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  What has China accomplished in its first year of WTO membership?

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2002

  The role of China has become more and more prominent in the last two decades: its export rose rapidly and its economic growth increased remarkably. On the 11th December 2001 China gained the WTO membership.This paper summarises China's WTO commitments and it attempts to establish its accomplishments in its first year of WTO membership.
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  "My gun was as tall as me": child soldiers in Burma

  Human Rights Watch, 2002

  This report is based on research conducted by Human Rights Watch in Thailand and border areas of Burma between February and July 2002.
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  A review of health care provider payment reform in selected countries in Asia and Latin America

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 1998

  How healthcare providers are paid for their services impacts on the type, quantity and quality of the services they provide. Different payment methods set up different incentives for consumers and producers of health services, some with negative and some with positive consequences for the overall supply of health services.
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  China: health briefing paper

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2000

  China’s population of 1.2 billion is the largest in the world. Population growth is relatively low however, as a result of the strenuous efforts of the government to control population growth, which was reflected in the ‘one child policy’.
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  Cambodia: health briefing paper

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2000

  Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in South East Asia – with about 40 per cent of households living below the poverty line. The poverty of Cambodians reflects the recent history, with over 30 years of civil war and genocide.
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  Participatory 3-dimensional modelling: guiding principles and applications

  Participatory Avenues : Integrated Approaches to Participatory Development, 2002

  This Publication (and enclosed multimedia resource kit) is intended to assist researchers, project managers, Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) and GIS practitioners in enhancing the capacities of marginalized, isolated, and frequently natural resource-dependent communities to deal with spatial data and to communicate with the “outside world” on a peer to peer basis.The resource book prov
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  Forests, people and rights

  Down to Earth: International Campaign for Ecological Justice in Indonesia, 2002

  This report details the status and history of forests and their ownership in Indonesia. It states that a huge amount of the country's forests have been destroyed and that rights and ownership have been handed to large companies and corrupt government friends.
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  AIDS, public policy and child well-being

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2001

  This paper presents the findings of a global study carried out in 2000 on the specific impact of HIV/AIDS on children.
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  Pathways of poverty reduction, rural development and transmission mechanisms in the Philippines

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2001

  This paper reviews the experience of Philippine rural development. It specifically examines the influence of government policies and institutional arrangements on rural welfare outcomes.
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  Cooperation and competition across border markets: changes in the definition of women’s weaving activity in Lao-Thai borderlands

  Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, 2000

  This paper examines the effects of globalization on women and gender relations in the border areas in Asia, through a case study of the weaving activities of women along the Thai and Laos border.Weaving has been a traditional women’s activity on both the Thai and Lao border.

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