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    Democratising trade politics in the Americas: insights from the women's, environmental and labour movements

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    This paper explores the extent to which and the ways in which civil society groups are contributing to the democratisation of trade policy and politics in the Americas. It explores the strategies adopted by a range of NGOs and social movements to influence the decision-making processes and the content of the trade agenda.
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    Energy, jobs and skills: a rapid assessment of potential in Mtwara, Tanzania

    Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2009
    Energy development in Mtwara is a fundamental part of the overall national energy strategy which is based on the desire to move away from hydro-dependent power sources, and the opportunity to achieve this through the development of natural gas for energy development. Therefore, for the purpose of this study, energy focuses specifically on electricity and natural gas.
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    The effect of information technology on wage inequality: evidence from Indian manufacturing sector

    Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2010
    A persistent widening of skill based wage inequality in the Indian Organised Manufacturing sector has been reported by many researchers. Two main hypotheses had been tested in developed economies to explain such a phenomenon; an inter-sectoral shift in demand structure and an intra-sectoral shift in production technology.
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    Nature and characteristics of seasonal labour migration: a case study in Mahabubnagar District of Andhra Pradesh

    Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2010
    In India, migration from rural areas is an important issue that is gaining more significance year after year. Moreover, the extent, nature, characteristics and pattern of migration have been evolving over time. In fact, the growing part of the migration taking place is seasonal and cyclical in nature. Seasonal or short duration migration is certainly not
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    Global crisis, environmental volatility and expansion of the Indian leather industry

    Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2010
    The leather industry occupies a place of prominence in the Indian economy in view of its massive potential for employment, growth and exports. However, the on-going global economic slowdown and the wide erratic behaviour of the overall weather condition particularly in the Europe pose both threat (of market loss) and opportunity (to gain some unanticipated demand in the market) before it.
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    Overseas recruitment in India: structures, practices and remedies

    Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2010
    The increasing number of emigrants from India for employment over years has resulted in intense transnational transfer of funds in favour of the country.1 The inward flow of remittances to India had been increasing steadily from the 1970s.
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    Remittances and labour supply in post-conflict Tajikistan

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
    The 1992–1998 Tajik armed conflict claimed at least 100,000 lives. About 18 per cent of the country’s population was displaced in the first few years of the war. The majority of displaced and refugees returned to their homes by 1995.
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    Financial crisis and Kerala economy

    Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2011
    The study examines the trends in export, foreign remittances, credit availability, and tourism in the context of Kerala economy against the background of global financial crisis and subsequent global recession. Kerala is considered to be highly vulnerable to a crisis like this because of its greater integration with the rest of the world. The
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    What do regional trade reforms mean for Zambia?

    Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research, 2012
    Zambia is participating actively in regional integration programmes, but little is know about the impacts of tariff reforms associated with such initiatives. This paper assesses the potential effects for Zambia of the trade reforms implied in both the COMESA Customs Union and the Tripartite Free Trade Area, specifically by comparing data for 2010 with
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    The last golden land? Chinese private companies go to Africa

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
    A new dynamic presence is spreading rapidly and widely across Africa: that of Chinese private enterprises. For these firms, Africa is ‘the last golden land’ of economic opportunity.

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