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    Framework for economic partnership agreement (EPAs) monitoring: engaging the grassroots

    Trade and Development Studies Centre – Trust, Zimbabwe, 2008
    There is continual criticism of the "reciprocal and non-discriminating" trade agreements to be offered by the European Union (EU) as being incompatible with WTO rules. In this paper, problems related to development and reciprocal trade are looked into. The paper is an attempt to identify issues where the grassroots can be involved and discuss how they can be involved.
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    Patterns of circular migration in the Euro-Mediterranean area: implications for policy-making

    European University Institute, Italy, 2008
    People moving across borders may, through their mobility, be involved in a form of back and forth movement between their places of origin and of destination. Because of their repeated and fluid cross-border mobility they are circular migrants.
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    Climate change and energy in the Mediterranean

    Plan Bleu, 2008
    An analysis of climate change issues in the Mediterranean region with an emphasis on Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries (SEMCs). SEMCs appear to be more vulnerable to climate change as they are more exposed to accelerated desertification, soil aridity and water scarcity, with economic structures that are more strongly dependent on natural resources.
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    Climate politics in the multi-level governance system. Emissions trading and institutional changes in environmental policy-making

    Wuppertal Institute, 2008
    Emissions trading has forged ahead as a climate policy instrument at several policy levels. The aim of the paper is to critically examine whether the rise in emissions trading policy instrument may be described as a ‘success story’ with the help of a number of theoretical hypotheses from the field of multi-level governance research.
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    A comparative analysis of public social assistance systems in Belgium and health equity funds in Cambodia: an overview of lessons learned

    Studies in Health Services Organisation and Policy, 2008
    Belgium has a solidly implemented multi-purposed public social assistance system that is the result of a long social and political history.
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    A middle-class global mobility? The working lives of Indian men in a west London hotel

    School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, 2008
    The migration of middle-class Indian men working in the hospitality sector in west London illustrates the intersection of gender and social class in organising both who migrates and what types of labour they consequently perform. In this article the authors examine the working lives of young, single, middle-class Indian men employed in the increasingly global hospitality sector in London, UK.
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    Commission on Growth and Development

    Launched in April 2006, the Commission on Growth and Development brings together twenty-one leading practitioners from government, business and the policymaking arenas, mostly from the developing worl
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    Trade liberalisation, agricultural productivity and poverty in the Mediterranean region

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2008
    This working paper explores the links between trade openness, agricultural productivity, growth and poverty reduction in a panel of Mediterranean countries. The paper believes that international trade can lead to enhanced farming productivity through the diffusion of new technologies. This, in turn, would drive the agricultural growth process.
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    Asia Europe Journal (AEJ)

    Asia Europe Journal (AEJ) is the quarterly academic journal by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF).
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    European initiative links trade policy with sustainable development

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    The European Commission (EC) has pledged to assess the economic, social and environmental impacts of its trade policies. Its Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) programme is indicating that the economic benefits expected from the efficiency gains of trade liberalisation are small.

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