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    India's software industry

    Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 1998
    Book focusing on India's billion-dollar software outsourcing trade: production figures; number of workers; the Indian producer firms and the US and European clients involved; costs; productivity data; divisions of labour and skills; impact of automated programming tools and other threats; historical trends and future directions; etc.
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    Distilling the Lessons from the ESAF Reviews [IMF Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility]

    International Monetary Fund, 1998
    Paper begins with a brief summary of lessons for program design; the staff and Executive Directors are encouraged to view this as a checklist (Section II) of areas where programs need to be strengthened.
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    Least Developed Countries Report: 1997

    United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 1999
    Socio-economic analysis and data on the world s 48 most impoverished nations.
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    Asian Competitive Devaluations

    Institute for International Economics, USA, 1998
    Paper examine three issues. The first is the path of China's nominal and real exchange rates since 1990. As it turns out, this is more complicated than is commonly assumed, with basic results exhibiting sensitivity to the exchange rate measure used.
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    China's Health and Environment

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 1998
    The Chinese Government has endorsed a suite of policies to curb air and water pollution. The extent to which these policies are successful has direct bearing on not only the health of the Chinese people and the local environment but the global environment as well.
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    Environmental changes and human health: World Resources Report 1998-99

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 1998
    Focuses on the critical issue of environmental change and human health. Drawing on the latest scientific data, report explores how environmental conditions contribute to the current burden of death and disease around the world and how that may change over the coming decades.
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    Social exclusion and South Asia: A regional bibliographical review and India case study

    International Institute for Labour Studies, ILO, 1995
    Regional report starts with a description of basic indicators of the five South Asian countries Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. . Section II discusses some basic concepts of poverty. In section III, the so-called direct and indirect approaches to poverty alleviation and economic growth are described.
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    Growing points in poverty research: Labour issues

    International Institute for Labour Studies, ILO, 1994
    poverty is almost always measured by asking whether a person's level of receipts falls below some norm. n defining what level of "receipts" constitutes poverty, is the norm the same for different people, times or conditions?
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    Institutionalization of Democratic Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1997
    Paper focuses on the institutionalization of democratic governance systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. It gives an insight into the institutional structures and mechanisms that allow democratic agents to operate and it provides a concise background on the role and functioning of political parties.
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    Assessing the economic impacts of integrated pest management: lessons from the past, directions for the future

    The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 1998
    Paper reviews the literature assessing the economic impacts of integrated pest management (IPM). Definitions of IPM are categorized as input- or outcome-oriented, and an outcome- oriented definition is recommended for public program assessment. The literature on economic impact assessment of IPM is divided according to focus on expected profit, profitability risk, environment, and health.

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