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  Economic liberalisation and globalisation vs India’s poor

  Transformation, Integration and Globalization Economic Research, Poland, 2003

  Is globalisation and economic liberalisation a threat or an opportunity for the poor? Today, many in the national and international NGO community perceive globalisation and economic liberalization as a threat claiming that it widens inequalities and increases overall poverty.
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  Low access to a highly effective therapy: a challenge for international tuberculosis control

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2002

  This paper, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO), summarises the most recent findings of the WHO’s tuberculosis (TB) monitoring and surveillance project, and assesses progress towards the 2005 targets for case detection and treatment success.
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  Wages of war, wages of peace: food prices and unskilled labour pay in Afghanistan, 1996-2002

  Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2002

  This paper contains the main results of a FAO study on staple food prices and real wages in Afghanistan during the period 1996-2002, based on information systematically collected weekly by WFP in all major cities (Kabul, Kandahar, Jalalabad, Heart, Mazar-e-Sharif and Faizabad). The main conclusion of the study are: Large fluctuations have been registered in food prices.
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  Case studies of private sector programmes to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria

  Global Health Initiative, 2002

  Series of papers and background materials on private sector efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
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  Can information and communications technology applications contribute to poverty reduction?: lessons from rural India

  Development Gateway, 2003

  This paper explores a number of case studies of initiatives using ICTs for poverty reduction in rural India. It details individual case studies as well as broader ways in which ICTs might contribute to poverty reduction.The authors then describe an economic model to explain the digital divide between rich and poor, that discusses costs in time and costs of access as impediments to ICT use.
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  Law, property rights, and social exclusion: a capabilities and entitlements approach to legal pluralism

  Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 2002

  What are the effects of trends away from legal pluralism towards more uniform approaches to the law? This paper analyses the effects of legal changes in property rights for people's welfare and development in India.
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  The direct and indirect impact of foreign direct investment on productivity growth in Indian manufacturing

  Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India, 2002

  It is claimed that FDI augments investible resources and improves technological standards, efficiency, and competitiveness of domestic industry, but is this true irrespective of the source of the FDI and prevailing economic conditions?
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  Foreign control, financial structures and financial performance of Japanese and US firms in Indian manufacturing

  Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India, 2001

  Do foreign companies in India adopt the corporate financial structures of their parent companies at home or do they ignore their financial advantages and follow local financing patterns? This paper attempts to compare the corporate and financial structures of Japanese, U.S. and Indian firms in the Indian manufacturing sector for the year 1997-98.
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  Devolution as a threat to democratic decision-making in forestry?: findings from three states in India

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper looks at two interfacing trends shaping devolution of forest management in India: appropriation of space for forest management by diverse self-initiated community formations; and state-driven devolution where government policies define the scope of local authority in forest management.
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  International right to know:empowering communities through corporate transparency

  Friends of the Earth, 2003

  This campaign document begins by describing the Bhopal disaster and uses it as an example of US companies failing to disclose information, in their operations abroad, that affect the health of workers, neighbours and other citizens. The International Right to Know coalition believes campaigns to address the gap in information about U.S.

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