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  Food aid: doing well by doing good

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2005

  This briefing paper asks who wins and who loses in US-led food aid programmes that, by law, rely on food that is grown in the US, processed and shipped by US firms, and distributed through US-based agencies and organisations.
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  No soft landing: as China opens its markets, US subsidies are making life hard for cotton farmers

  Oxfam, 2005

  This paper examines the dynamics of the world cotton market and highlights imbalances which have been detrimental for Chinese cotton farmers.
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  A briefing paper for DFID: update on China and India and access to medicines

  DFID Health Resource Centre (HRC), 2005

  This paper, from the DFID Health Resource Centre, examines how Intellectual Property (IP) agreements impact upon the pharmaceutical sector in China and India, and how this in turn affects access to medicines.
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  Rich countries but poor children?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Child poverty is not just a problem in developing countries. It also prevails in the world’s richest nations. More than 15 percent of children are poor in the USA, Mexico, Italy, New Zealand, Ireland, Portugal and the UK. What can be done to address child poverty in these countries?
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  The GM decision-making process: who decides?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Genetically modified (GM) crops are legally grown in over 17 countries worldwide. Three of the world’s five largest GM producers – Argentina, China and Brazil – are developing countries (the other two are USA and Canada). How do governments in developing countries make decisions concerning GM crops and who has access to these decision-makers?
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  U.S. weapons at war 2005: promoting freedom or fueling conflict? U.S. military aid and arms transfers since September 11

  World Policy Institute, New York, 2005

  This brief considers the United States' sale of arms and provision of military assistance across the globe.
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  Globalization, informal recycling and the MDGs on the U.S.-Mexico border: the cartoneros of Los Dos Laredos

  Global Development Network, 2005

  In developing countries, scavenging is perceived as an occupation operating on the margins of the society. Yet, scavengers can be part of the solution to the insufficient collection and inappropriate disposal of solid wastes. This paper analyses the scavenging population involved in the informal recovery of cardboard in Laredo, a Mexican city located along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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  Shifting strategies in the global climate negotiations

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2005

  This document focuses on four pivotal actors, which also are the four largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world: the United States, China, the European Union, and Russia.
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  Social security pensionable age in OECD countries: 1949-2035

  American Association of Retired Persons International Section, 2005

  This Issue Paper examines the pensionable or early retirement age policy of social security programs in 23 countries over the years 1949-2035. This paper considers as a group 23 high-income Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. .
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  Trade Impact Review

  2002

  This tool provides an extensive overview of the literature and frameworks to analyse gender-differentiated impacts of new trade and investment agreements undertaken by the United States (US) prior to their negotiation and signing. A framework is then proposed that accounts for both the economic as well as legal effects of trade agreements on women and men.

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