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    Malaysian palm oil - green gold or green wash?

    Friends of the Earth International, 2008
    Focusing on Sarawak, this paper confronts the misleading claims of the Malaysian palmoil lobby and aims to inform decision makers about the serious sustainability challenges the palm oil sector faces on the ground. Key areas of contention highlighted include that:
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    From poverty to dignity: a learning manual on human rights based development

    Dignity International, 2007
    Human rights provide a moral, authoritative, and legal framework to tackle root causes of poverty, deep-seated structures of discrimination, and the processes of impoverishment from local to global levels. A human rights framework not only offers distinctive strengths but also specific tools for development work.
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    Toolkit to promote transparency in local governance

    United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2004
    Inadequate governance at the local level affects the poor in many ways, often enhancing exclusion. Lack of participation means that the poor often do not have a choice in determining their own development needs and priorities.
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    Challenging common assumptions on corruption and democratisation

    Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2008
    This document contains two papers on themes that have received either too little attention or too little systematic treatment in international cooperation. The first paper on the theme of democratisation, rule of law and development points out the significance of democratisation in development cooperation and places it in the broader context of the rule of law.
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    Reflections from South Africa on a possible benefit-sharing approach for transboundary waters

    Water Alternatives, 2008
    The concept of benefit‐sharing is emerging with great intensity in the international discourse on transboundary water resource management.This paper seeks to record a thought process involving nine distinct differences between what can be called a 'traditional' water resources management paradigm, and a possible new benefit‐sharing approach.
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    Biofuels - at what cost? Government support for biodiesel in Malaysia

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2008
    Focusing on government support policies, this report examines the history and status of the biofuel industry in Malaysia. It forms part of a multi-country effort by the Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) to characterise and quantify government subsidies and other support for biofuel production, distribution and consumption.
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    Accountability and inequality in single-party regimes: a comparative analysis of Vietnam and China

    The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 2008
    This article describes variation in authoritarian institutions by investigating the puzzle of divergent patterns of inequality in China and Vietnam, both high-growth single-party regimes. China‘s income inequality has risen rapidly, Vietnam‘s has only grown moderately.
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    WWF discussion paper: policy approaches and positive incentives for REDD

    Macroeconomics for Sustainable Development Programme Office, WWF, 2008
    This paper aims to provide an overview to potential policy approaches and positive incentives for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) in the post-2012 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In particular, the paper discusses the potential implications or key elements for consideration when determining positive incentives for REDD.
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    Poverty and corruption

    Transparency International, 2008
    Although 2007 marked the half-way mark to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to end extreme poverty by 2015 as well as the tenth anniversary of the Lima Declaration signed by the anticorruption movement pledging itself to work on poverty issues, donors and governments continue to perceive poverty and corruption separately.
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    Poverty, aid and corruption

    Transparency International, 2007
    For aid to be effective it must, in its first instance, be delivered to its intended recipients. Combating corruption, therefore, should be the first action of any aid transaction - in order to ensure development can be effected.

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