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    Signposts To Sui Generis Rights: Resource materials from the international seminar on sui generis rights

    GRAIN, 1997
    TRIPS requires developing countries to enact intellectual property rights (IPR) legislation for plant varieties by the year 2000, while least-developed countries have until 2005. This can be in the form of classic industrial patent systems or some "effective sui generis system".
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    Ten reasons not to join UPOV [Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants]

    GRAIN, 1998
    Developing countries are currently facing intense pressure to institute intellectual property rights (IPRs) for plant varieties. Despite the fact that the brief history of IPRs over plants and biological resources has undermined local biodiversity in the North and precipitated corporate monopolies over the food system, Southern countries are being forced to travel the same path.
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    The Urban Labour Market During Structural Adjustment: Ethiopia 1990-1997

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998
    Paper examines the effects of reform and structural adjustment on the urban labour market in Ethiopia using a combination of cross-section and panel data based on surveys conducted both pre- and post- reform. During this period Ethiopia has seen impressive growth in GDP but little in the way of private investment.
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    Economic objectives, public-sector deficits and macroeconomic stability in Zimbabwe

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997
    A fundamental macroeconomic problem in Zimbabwe is that the sum of public-sector projects is greater than the resources available to finance them.
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    In sickness and in health... : risk-sharing within households in rural Ethiopia

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997
    To investigate risk-sharing within the household, we model nutritional status as a durable good and we look at the consequences of individual health shocks. For household allocation to be pareto-efficient, households should pool shocks to income. We also investigate whether households can smooth nutritional levels over time.
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    The consequences of past agricultural outputs on the interacting nutrition and health of autarkic peasants : evidence from Rwanda

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997
    In rural areas of LDC, because of the existence of market imperfections, health and nutrition status may depend on the levels of specific agricultural productions and not only on the income level. However, these specific impacts have never been studied.
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    'The rich are just like us only richer?: poverty functions or consumption functions?

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995
    The concept of a poverty function is introduced, modelling the shortfall of household consumption from the poverty line as a function of reduced form determinants such as human capital and land holdings. The model is estimated using a tobit and data from Uganda.
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    Determinants of adoption and levels of demand for fertiliser for cereal growing farmers in Ethiopia

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1996
    The current government of Ethiopia has put agriculture at the heart of its policies. There is particular emphasis on promoting adoption of fertiliser, improved seeds and the efficiency of input marketing and distribution. In this paper we use a nationally representative data set for 1994 to analyse what factors influence adoption of as well as intensity of fertiliser use of small-scale farmers.
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    Child Labor in Cote d'Ivoire: Incidence and Determinants

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
    Most children in Côte d'Ivoire perform some kind of work. In rural areas, more than four of five children work, with only a third combining work with schooling. Child labor in Côte d'Ivoire increased in the 1980s because of a severe economic crisis. Two out of three urban children aged 7 to 17 work; half of them also attend school.
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    Child labor and schooling in Ghana

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
    To improve human capital and reduce the incidence of child labor in Ghana, the country's school systems should reduce families' schooling costs, adapt to the constraints on schooling in rural areas (where most children must work at least part-time), and provide better education (more relevant to the needs of the labor market).

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