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  Household composition and the response of child labour supply to product market integration: evidence from Vietnam

  World Bank, 2004

  This study finds that in general, rice price increases are associated with declines in child labour in Vietnam.The paper examines how the response of child labour supply to an increase in the relative price of a primary export product varies with a child’s household composition.
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  Trade liberalization and the structure of poverty in developing countries

  Global Trade Analysis Project, 2003

  This paper gives an analysis of the structure of poverty across a range of developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and explores how national poverty rates could be affected by global trade liberalization.Some of the main findings from this analysis are:the poor tend to be more specialized in the earnings sources than the non-poor, which makes them more vulnerable to tra
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  The world economic and social survey 2003

  Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2003

  The World Economic and Social Survey is an annual analysis of the state of the world economy and emerging policy issues.
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  Export dynamism and market access

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2003

  This paper undertakes a product-specific analysis of the evolution of world trade over the past two decades.
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  The currency premium and local-currency denominated debt costs in South Africa

  OECD Development Centre, 2004

  This paper aims at identifying the determinants of South African currency premia, which usually form an important element of debt cost in developing countries, in order to assess the scope of South African economic policies for narrowing the spread on local-currency denominated debt.The paper argues that South Africa is one among very few emerging economies able to borrow long-term domestically
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  The effect of WTO and FTAA on agriculture and the rural sector in Latin America

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This paper examines two alternative versions of further trade liberalisation; one representing free trade world wide, the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the other a Western hemisphere free trade bloc, Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
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  No security without food security: no food security without gender equality

  Association of World Council of Churches related Development Organisations in Europe, 2003

  This report is the outcome of the APRODEV GOOD Conference which looked at tracing the linkages between food security, gender and trade liberalisation.
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  A review of regional strategies addressing poverty

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  This paper reviews the main development strategies that have been pursued in Africa since the 1970s with the aim of stirring a debate that can be helpful in the search for new opportunities for poverty reduction in the region.The paper focuses its attention on the following broad policies:Structural adjustment policies: characterised by a keen interest on the part of internationa
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  Towards a development round

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  This briefing (10th in the IDS Trade and Development Background Briefings) deals with emerging trade issues that go beyond the major aspects covered in the first nine ‘Trade and Investment Background Briefings’, as well as with their impact for developing countries.Claims include:as international commerce becomes more complex developing countries require an enhanced capacity to play an
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  International investment treaties and developing countries

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  This briefing (9th in the IDS Trade and Development Background Briefings) analyses the need for a multilateral regulation of investment and the prospects that such an agreement has to take place within the framework of the WTO.Claims include:over the past ten years, foreign direct investment (FDI) to developing countries has increased five-foldthe increasing globalisation of capital

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