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  Making decisions about pest management: a learning-based approach

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Making the right decisions about pest management strategies and pesticide use is critical for farmers due to rising production costs, increased competition and consumer concerns about food quality and safety. This is true for both subsistence and commercial farmers.
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  Indonesia: an overview of the legal framework for foreign direct investment

  Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2002

  The aim of this paper is to examine the legal aspects of FDI in Indonesia, the emerging legislative policy trends and the role of law in economic development. The findings of the paper indicate that some of the challenges Indonesia is facing are:the need to reinvent legislature stance, encourage courts obedience to parliament and constitution and coordinate all laws and regulations in a
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  China challenges the Tigers: regional implications of China’s manufactured exports boom

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  China’s manufactured exports have grown so strongly in recent years that its neighbours are seriously worried about the effect on their own export sectors. Are such fears justified, and what are the prospects for the region’s economic tigers – Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand?
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  Is trade in virtual water a solution for water-scarce countries?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Few people realise that we ‘eat’ between 2,000 and 5,000 litres of water per day, depending on our diet. To grow a kilogram of wheat takes between 500 and 4,000 litres of water; a kilogram of beef requires around 10,000 litres.
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  Looking for a quick fix: how weak social auditing is keeping workers in sweatshops

  Clean Clothes Campaign, 2005

  This report argues that social audits as they are currently carried out often fail to deliver as a tool for checking working conditions in facilities producing garments and sports shoes.
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  The measurement of income distribution dynamics when demographics are correlated with income

  Développement, Institutions & Analyses de Long terme, 2004

  This paper aims to derive instructive analytics on how to account for differentials in demographic variables, and in particular mortality, when performing welfare comparisons over time.
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  Laying the foundations for children's rights: an independent study of some key legal and institutional aspects of the impact of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2005

  This study seeks to evaluate the extent to which States and the international community have succeeded in putting in place the foundations of legal and political accountability, set out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which are an essential component of efforts to make a reality of children’s rights.The paper puts the Convention into historical perspective by reviewing the differe
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  Knowledge generation for poverty reduction within donor organizations

  ESRC Global Poverty Research Group, 2005

  Effective poverty reduction relies on knowledge of poverty and poverty reduction. It also depends on the kinds of knowledge that emerge from, and inform, the activities of donor organisations. This paper draws upon evidence from the World Bank's programme in Indonesia to illustrate this point.
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  Lancet Chronic Diseases 2: preventing chronic diseases: taking stepwise action

  The Lancet, 2005

  This article, the second in the Lancet series on chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs), presents a planning framework for preventing chronic diseases, divided into key steps or stages, which can be used in settings with limited resources.
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  Trend and Status of Gender Perspectives in ICT Sector: Case Studies in Asia-Pacific Countries

  2004

  This report is based on research aimed at understanding key gender and ICT issues in Asia Pacific countries, with a focus on Bangladesh, Bhutan and Indonesia. It shows that, despite increasing government attention to ICTs as powerful drivers of economic development, there is still a wide digital divide, and an even wider gender digital divide in all three countries.

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