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    Nanotechnology development in India: an overview

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2014
    Nanotechnology has been heralded as a revolutionary technology by many scholars worldwide.
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    Synthetic biology in India: issues in risk, power and governance

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2014
    Synthetic biology is an emerging technology that can facilitate ‘design’ and ‘creation’ of micro-organisms which may not be found in nature. Synthetic biology is considered as an amalgamation of principles of engineering and biology. Globally synthetic biology has advanced rapidly in the last decade; however, in India it is in nascent stages.
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    Challenges to food security in South Asia

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010
    The high levels of under-nutrition and persisting hunger in the region not only calls for an assessment of the situation of food production and consumption but also issues like access to food by the poor in the region. This will have consequent implications for the target of achieving food security in the medium and long term.
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    Women’s rights and political representation: past achievements and future challenges

    International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2014
    This paper summarises the main achievements and challenges for Afghan women’s participation in politics and their access to justice. It also presents the most important reflections amongst key stakeholders about possible ways forward, with the aim of facilitating further discussions in these areas.
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    Pesticide policy

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1998
    In Pakistan, the aggressive media campaigns by pesticide companies do not comply with FAO guidelines for advertising pesticides though the country adopts the guidelines. Also, Pakistan law does not clearly outline the guidelines for advertising pesticides. The law only prescribes that it is a punishable offence for anyone to falsely represent a pesticide in an advertisement.
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    Implementation of convention on biological diversity in Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1998
    Pakistan, covering a land area of 803,940 sq. km, is rich in biodiversity. It has been divided into 10 major ecological zones and contains up to 5,700 species of plants, 188 of mammals, 666 of birds, 174 of reptiles, 125 of freshwater and 400 of marine fish, and insects/invertebrates of 20,000.
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    High level segment of the 6th session of the commission on sustainable development

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1998
    The Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) was set up following the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992.  The CSD meets annually in New York.  The Department of Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development (DPCSD) in the United Nations Headquarters in New York serves as the secretariat for the CSD.  The C
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    NEPRA tariff setting strategy

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1999
    Pakistan’s Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) recently proposed an increase in its utility charges. However, it is difficult to accept the proposal for a higher utility charge. This policy brief examines this proposal vis-à-vis the marginal cost for generating electricity.
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    Pakistan's trade interests in the Seattle WTO ministerial negotiations

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1999
    Many gung-ho free trade advocates believe that there is now overwhelming evidence that trade liberalization generates growth. This, in fact may not be the case.  The studies that produced such results are methodologically flawed.
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    Pakistan's trade interests regarding WTO negotiations

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1999
    Developing countries are being given the impression that there is overwhelming evidence that trade liberalization generates growth. This is in fact not the case. The studies that have established such results are methodologically flawed. The cross-country models used to establish these results assume that a high degree of similarity exists across countries, which is clearly not the case.

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