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  Demographic change and regional competitiveness: the effects of immigration and ageing

  Population Studies Centre, University of Waikato, 2007

  This paper focuses on the impact of population ageing and immigration on regional competitiveness, including innovation, entrepreneurship and productivity. The author presents empirical evidence that population ageing reduces regional competitiveness, while immigration – particularly of entrepreneurs and highly skilled workers to metropolitan areas – enhances competitiveness.
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  Thinking locally: the role of multinational subsidiaries in spreading technology

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Many developing countries seek to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) partly to encourage the introduction and spread of superior technology in the local economy (spillovers). But, as seen in Argentina, FDI-related technology spillovers are not automatic; they are strongly influenced by the level of technological activity of the subsidiaries of multinational corporations (MNCs).
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  Free and open source software in sub-Saharan Africa: development through information

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Donors have been promoting information and communication technologies as central to development. But the enforcement of intellectual property rights through the World Trade Organization will make it difficult for developing countries to use proprietary software on a large scale. In sub-Saharan Africa, free and open source software may be a cheaper and more appropriate alternative.
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  Place, social protection and migration in Bangladesh: a Londoni village in Biswanath

  Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2006

  What is the relationship between migration, poverty and social protection in Bangladesh? This paper, which is based on recent research in Biswanath, Sylhet (in Bangladesh) examines generalised notions of ‘social protection’ common to development discourse. The context is a ‘Londoni’ village (i.e. a village with high levels of transnational migration to the UK).
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  Agricultural exports in Guatemala: profits eluding poor people

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Many economists believe that agricultural trade, whereby rural people produce cash crops, leads to pro-poor growth. They neglect to consider how domestic power structures and market instability limit this. Persistent rural poverty in Guatemala despite high growth in its sugar and snow pea industries illustrates these limits.
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  A healthy private banking sector needs effective regulation

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Private banks can be more efficient than state-owned banks. But in many poor countries government ownership of banks is still widespread as the conditions needed for private banking to thrive are lacking. Rather than subsidising state banks, governments should introduce effective regulation.
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  Multiple origins, uncertain destinies: Hispanics and the American future

  Committee on Population, National Academy of Sciences, 2006

  Hispanics are one of the fastest-growing segments of the U.S. population and are currently the nation's largest ethnic minority, and they will remain so for the foreseeable future.
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  Undue influence: corporations gain ground in battle over China's new labor law: but human rights and labor advocates are pushing back

  Global Labor Strategies, 2007

  This paper describes the behind-the-scenes battle that is raging over reforms in China’s labour law. U.S.-based and other global corporations have been aggressively lobbying the Chinese government to weaken or abandon significant pro-worker reforms it had proposed in March 2006.
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  Protecting community rights over traditional knowledge: implications of customary laws and practices

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006

  This collaborative research project seeks to assist indigenous and local communities I protecting their rights over traditional knowledge (TK) relating to biological resources, in accordance with their customary laws and practices. The project further aims to inform and influence policy makers at all levels.
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  Migrants' remittances and development: myths, rhetoric and realities

  International Organization for Migration, 2006

  Migrant remittances have become a focus of heightened attention in recent years. This paper discusses the level of remittances, both formal and informal, and their geographical distribution. It also discerns types and personal characteristics of migrants as remitters.

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