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    Sustainable competitiveness in global value chains - how do small Danish firms behave?

    Copenhagen Centre for Corporate Responsibility, 2006
    Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have increasingly become integrated into global value chains, where they face social and environmental requirements from multinational buyers. This paper examines the role of SMEs with respect to sustainable supply chain management in global value chains.
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    The new EPAs: comparative ananlysis of their content and the challenges for 2008

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2008
    The start of 2008 marked the end of over 30 years of Lomé/Cotonou preferences, and yet most ACP countries did not lose their privileged access to European markets.
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    Adaptation to climate change: do not count on climate scientists to do your work

    AEI Center for Regulatory and Market Studies, 2008
    The author analyses how our economies have to adapt and consider the long-term impacts and consequences of climate change, which includes the designing of buildings and infrastructure. The document discusses that although this will be a challenge future infrastructure should be made robust to most possible changes in climate conditions. Five methods are examined:
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    A study of migrant-sending households in Serbia receiving remittances from Switzerland

    International Organization for Migration, 2008
    This report analyses the impact of remittances sent back to families in Serbia by individuals who migrated and settled in Switzerland. It also looks at a profile of the migrant sending population and analyses trends and patterns.
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    Trade policy options for Nigeria: a GTAP simulation analysis

    Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, 2007
    Nigeria exports mainly fuels and mining products to the US and the EU. Nigerian exports have effectively duty-free access into both of these destinations while Nigerian tariffs are high by international standards.
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    EPAs: Thinking outside the European box

    Groupe d'Economie Mondiale, 2007
    The preferences granted by the European Union (EU) to the ACP countries in Cotonou are neither reciprocal nor extended to all developing countries and therefore not compliant with WTO legislation.
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    The Asian way of regional integration: are there lessons from Europe?

    Kiel Institute of World Economics/Institut für Weltwirtschaft, 2007
    The widening of East Asian regional integration has been driven by external aspects. Lessons Asia could learn from the European experience are however limited in their reach because:
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    A Code of conduct for the natural stone sector.

    India Committee of the Netherlands, 2007
    In the last decade there has been a growing interest in the improvement of sustainability performance throughout supply chains. However, this report argues that sustainability standards for the quarrying and processing of natural stone and natural stone products in developing countries needs to be lifted to a higher level.
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    Review of the NPA Rwanda programme and assessment of prospects of NPA activities in Rwanda

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2008
    This review of the Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) in Rwanda considers both the background and future objectives of the programme. The overall objective of the review is to identify future prospects for NPA’s work in Rwanda. The document assesses the development of the programme, focusing on present situations and future opportunities.
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    Agricultural development in Sheki area, Azerbaijan, 2005 – 2007 (ADPP-Sheki)

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2007
    This paper outlines an evaluation of the project ADPP-Sheki (Agricultural Development Pilot Project in Sheki area, Azerbaijan). This pilot project is based on experiences made by the work with their agricultural project in Ganja (NHE-AP-Ganja), which started in 2002, and with their micro finance activities through their sister organisation Viator Micro Credit Azerbaijan.

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