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  WTO and product-related environmental standards

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2003

  This article examines, in the Indian context, the issues of the linkage between exports from developing countries and the regulatory standards set by developed-country importers for food safety, quality and environmental norms.
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  Rice trade liberalisation and poverty

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper explores the important link between rice trade liberalisation and poverty, seeking specifically to respond to two questions: What would be the effect of freer trade in rice on trade flow patterns? How will rice trade liberalisation and consequent rice price equalisation across countries influence the prevalence of poverty in the poorer economies?
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  Distance education for basic education in the E9 countries

  2002

  This paper explores the successes or otherwise of the use of distance education to increase levels of basic education in the E-9 countries which share similar issues in terms of high population and relatively low levels of basic education completion.The document details the ways in which countries have used distance education:it has occasionally been used either as an alternative to fo
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  Fine grain-Finance: financial choice and strategy among the poor in rural North India

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2002

  This report gives a description of the financial life of residents with a limited basis for cash-crop and off-farm opportunities, hence restricting them to size of landholding as a critical indicator of wealth and status and influences access to cheap bank finance.The authors demonstrates that the use of informal mechanisms like reciprocal gifts, interest-free lending and borrowing and takin
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  Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs): an assessment of the ILO’s experience

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  The ILO has undertaken PRSP-related activities in a number of countries including five special focus countries (Cambodia, Honduras, Mali, Nepal and the United Republic of Tanzania), especially in Africa where the policy environment is so closely aligned to the development of PRSPs.This paper looks at the value-added of the ILO and its social partners in contributing to PRSPs and helping low-i
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  Social security for the unorganized in India: an approach paper

  Eldis Document Store, 2002

  This paper suggests that traditionally the ILO and ministries of labour the world over believed that all workers would eventually end up in large enterprises, or at least in the formal sector. However, experience has proved otherwise. On the contrary, voluntary retirement schemes, out sourcing employment and casualization have become the key words of the corporate world these days.
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  Stitching values together: implementing core labour standards through management training in the Bangladesh ready-made garment sector

  International Business Leaders Forum, 2002

  This report details a pilot project in Bangladesh to bring about improvements in working conditions in the ready-made garment sector, by building management capacity to understand the need for and to be able to change.
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  India’s trade potential in audio-visual services and the GATS

  Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2002

  This study examines the prospects of liberalising trade in audio-visual services and its costs and benefits under the GATS framework. Audio-visual services include films, music, television software and radio programmes and also post-production facilities, computer animations and graphics.
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  Nepal: health briefing paper

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 1999

  Nepal remains an extremely poor country. The government has faced major problems in providing basic services to a very dispersed and fragmented population estimated at 21.5million and growing at around 2.5 per cent per year.
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  India: health briefing paper

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 1999

  Following independence in 1947, India and its leaders believed that an interventionist industry-led approach to development was the key to eradicating poverty. Ambitious targets were set for the expansion of health services, according to strictly defined population based norms which would be provided free at the point of service.

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