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    World Data on Education [country profiles]

    International Bureau of Education, UNESCO, 1998
    Country level educational sector profiles (144 in June 2000). Overview describing structure of sector and nationals policies Includes statistcal indicators. Available on WWW and on (free) CDROM.
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    Measuring Poverty: A New Approach

    National Academies Press, 1996
    Proposal for a new set of indicators for measuring poverty in the USA. WWW site includes executive summary and recommendations
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    Developing Environmental Indicators: Materials Ecology

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 1998
    Report on WRI programme to develop indicators to capture a picture of material flow through industrial economies: industrial minerals; construction materials; metals; chemicals; infrastructure; fossil fuels; soil erosion; renewables; semi-manufactures; finished products; hidden flows.See also related report: Resource Flows: The Material Basis of Industrial Economies at
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    Vietnam Development Cooperation Report 1997

    Vietnam UNDP Office, 1998
    Annual report on development cooperation (UNDP and other agencies) in Vietnam. Includes country background analysis and statistical trends in aid allocation
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    Aquastat [FAO country-level profiles on rural water use]

    Water Resources, Development and Management Service, FAO, 1998
    Information system on water in agriculture and rural development. Produces regional analyses and country profiles on water resources development, with emphasis on irrigation and drainageWWW site has country reports and continent-level overviews.
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    Made in China?: The Growth of Chinese Trade

    Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, 1998
    Traces the growth of Chinese exports in the post-Mao era, and the implications for policy making within China. The first part of the paper provides a statistical overview of the growth in Chinese trade since 1978, and suggests that this growth was achieved through a combination of two key factors.
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    Corporate environmental reporting and the UNEP/SustainAbility Benchmarking Tool

    1998
    The UNEP/SustainAbility benchmarking tool for corporate environmental reports (CERs) has been seen as a possible method for achieving comparability of environmental performance data and reporting.
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    Trial International Classification of Activities for Time-use Statistics (ICATUS)

    United Nations [UN] Statistics Division, 1998
    Trial international classification which can be used by both developing and developed countries in their time-use surveys. The purpose of the trial classification is to assist those countries interested in embarking on time-use studies by providing the structure of a classification which could be adapted to national circumstances and to facilitate international comparisons.
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    Ethical Trading Initiatives and Forest Dependent People

    Ethical Trade and Natural Resources Programme, NRI, 1998
    Discusses some of the schemes that promote environmentally sustainable trade in forest products and highlights some concerns about their impact on forest dependent people. The trading chains of many forest products, particularly non-timber forest products, are highly complex and people are involved in the marketing of these products in a variety of ways.
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    Beyond Eco-Efficiency: Sustainability as a Driver for Innovation

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 1998
    Outlines the global trends that indicate sustainable development will be a winning business strategy in the next century, and develops a risk-reward framework for evaluating the potential benefits for sustainability-driven investments.

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