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Ending legalised violence against children: report for North America regional consultation
Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children, 2005This report reviews law and policy in relation to corporal punishment and deliberate humiliation of children in Canada and the USA. Recommendations are made for law reform and other measures.Both the USA and Canada have signed up to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, but the USA (together with Somalia) has yet to ratify it.DocumentCommitment to Development Index, 2005
Center for Global Development, USA, 2005The Commitment to Development index measures donor countries' committment to development by monitoring not only dollar values of aid, but also trade, investment, migration, security, environment, and technology policies.DocumentImmigration Policies: A Gendered Historical Comparison
BRIDGE, 2003This piece compares policies in the USA, Canada and Sweden from the 1780s to the 1980s. The ?male-breadwinner model? has been a central principle governing who is allowed to migrate to the USA and Canada. This model is based on a male migrant who is the key labourer in the family whose wife and dependants are allowed to join him in the name of ?family reunion?.DocumentWhat might the next emerging-market financial crisis look like?
Institute for International Economics, USA, 2005This paper asks the hyphothetical questions: if a financial crisis affecting a group of emerging economies were to take place sometime over the next three years, where would the crisis likely originate, how could it be transmitted to other economies, and which economies would be most affected by particular transmission or contagion mechanisms?It presents set of indicators to gauge the vulnerabDocumentTrade wars - revenge of the myth: deals for trade votes gone bad
Public Citizen, 2005This report documents the fate of promises made to members of the US Congress since 1992 in exchange for their support of controversial trade agreements.DocumentReforming social security: lessons from thirty countries
National Center for Policy Analysis, USA, 2005This report argues that examining the social security systems of other countries may offer useful insights for the United States as it considers its own social security reforms towards but privately managed, funded plans. The experience of other countries suggests problems to be avoided and solutions to be emulated.DocumentA leadership strategy for reducing hunger and malnutrition in Africa: the agriculture-nutrition advantage
International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2005This paper reviews the aspects and outcomes of the Agriculture- Nutrition Advantage project implemented in Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Uganda, and the United States.DocumentGlobalization and inequality in the Arab region
Arab Planning Institute, Kuwait, 2003The paper investigates the effects of globalisation on the Arab region. For understanding the process of globalisation as increased international economic integration three measures of globalisation are used: the rate of increase in the trade/GDP ratio, the ratio of the stock foreign direct investment to GDP, and the number of immigrants to the US.DocumentAffinity and International Trade
Institute for International Economics, USA, 2005This paper examines the impact of American public attitudes toward foreign countries on the volume of trade. It calls for greater attention on the subjective elements that affect global trading patterns, beyond models that rely on economic rationalism.