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  Numerous federal activities complement U.S. Business’s global corporate social responsibility efforts

  Government Accountability Office, US Congress, 2005

  This report examines trends and issues in Corporate Social Responsibility in the US. It describes federal agency policies and programs relating to global CSR as well as different perspectives regarding the appropriate U.S. government role and views on the impact of current federal activities on corporate global CSR efforts.Findings of the report include:U.S.
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  A dossier of civilian casualties 2003-2005

  Iraq Body Count, 2005

  This dossier provides insight into the civilian casualties of the Iraq war.
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  Implications of U.S. policy restrictions on programs aimed at commercial sex workers and victims of trafficking worldwide

  Center for Health and Gender Equity, 2005

  This policy brief from CHANGE, examines the implications of the United States (US) Global AIDS Act, which bars the use of federal funds to promote, support or advocate the legalisation or practice of prostitution. The brief outlines how these policies and restrictions have numerous adverse implications for effective HIV prevention and the promotion of human rights and public health.
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  Building human capital in an aging Mexico

  Global Aging Initiative Program, 2005

  United Nations' figures project that in 2050 one in five Mexicans will be aged over 65 and there will be equal numbers of children and elderly.
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  ‘White gold’ turns to dust: the price of free trade in cotton

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Cotton, once known as ‘white gold’, has lost its glitter. The slide in global cotton prices is driving ten million farmers in West and Central Africa (WCA) deeper into poverty. Inequalities in the international trading regime are responsible for such distortions. But how can these inequalities be eliminated and the livelihoods of African producers protected?
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  China challenges the Tigers: regional implications of China’s manufactured exports boom

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  China’s manufactured exports have grown so strongly in recent years that its neighbours are seriously worried about the effect on their own export sectors. Are such fears justified, and what are the prospects for the region’s economic tigers – Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand?
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  Different shades of American protectionism

  Gujarat Institute of Development Research, India, 2005

  Even though America advocates the path of free markets to industrialisation, a cursory look into its developmental history shows that protectionism has been the hallmark of industrial, investment and trade policies followed in that country.
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  Human resources for health and the global HIV/AIDS pandemic

  Physicians for Human Rights, 2005

  This testimony to the United States (US) House International Relations Committee by Physicians for Human Rights, outlines the impact of HIV and AIDS on human resources for health (HRH) in Africa and suggests how the US government could help to address these issues. The author outlines the health worker shortage in Africa due to lack of funding for public health and the brain drain.
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  The migration of physicians from sub-Saharan Africa to the United States of America: measures of the African brain drain

  Human Resources for Health, 2004

  This Human Resources for Health paper details the characteristics and trends in migration to the United States (US) of physicians trained in sub-Saharan Africa. Findings reveal that more than 23 per cent of US physicians were trained outside of the US, with a majority trained in low-income or lower middle-income countries.
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  The Iraq quagmire: the mounting costs of war and the case for bringing home the troops

  Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, 2005

  This report takes a comprehensive look at the human, economic, social, security, environmental, and human rights costs of the war in Iraq and the ensuing occupation. It then provides what it calls an exit strategy: a plan to bring the troops home and internationalise the peace, arguing that instead of helping make Iraq safer and more stable, U.S.

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