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  Testing the induced innovation hypothesis in South African agriculture : an error correction approach

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Apparently factor prices do matter in agricultural production and in the selection of production technology. And in South Africa, more attention should be focused on the technological needs of small scale farmers.
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  Price support at any price : costs and benefits of alternative agricultural policies for Poland

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  Poland's agriculture sector can defend its income only by becoming more efficient --- by relying less on price supports and reducing farm employment, among other things.Orlowski argues that Poland must choose an agricultural policy that promotes efficiency, structural change, and adjustment to the new market environment and eventual membership in the European Union.
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  The International Contestability of Markets -- Economic perspectives: Issues Paper

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999

  For a number of years analytical work and discussions have taken place in the Trade Committee and in various other fora on the “new” dimensions of market access arising in world of deepening economic integration.
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  Biodiversity and its value [in Australia]

  Biodiversity Group, Environment Australia, 1993

  Explains biodiversity and the three levels at which it is usually considered: genetic, species and ecosystem diversity. It also briefly discusses why biodiversity is important, especially the value of its components and diversity itself.
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  NAFTA Supplemental Agreements: Four Year Review

  Institute for International Economics, USA, 1998

  Examines the objectives and accomplishments to date of the NAAEC and the NAALC.1 It also includes a discussion of the USA-Mexico Border Environmental Cooperation Agreement (BECA) which was designed to address environmental infrastructure problems in the US-Mexican border region.
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  Who owns the ecosystem?

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999

  Paper is about how human society organizes its proprietary relationship to the biosphere and, in particular, the property implications of ecosystem management. Our premise is that ecosystem management is endangered by its "bigger-is-better" bias, the potential source of public backlash among landowners.
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  Modelling the Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Women, at Work and at Home: IDS research proposal

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998

  Researching the uneven impact of globalisation (mainly trade) on women and men in developing countries. It aims to construct and apply models to analyse the effects of trade liberalisation on the monetary economy, the household economy and the interactions between them.
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  A Framework for Assessing the Relationship between Trade Liberalization and Biodiversity Conservation

  Trade, Investment and Sustainable Development Programme, IISD, 1998

  Paper develops an analytical framework for assessing the effects of trade liberalization on biodiversity conservation. The framework is designed for individuals preparing or analyzing country biodiversity studies who require a conceptual and analytical tool for a systematic accounting of the relationships between trade liberalization and biodiversity conservation.
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  Population and environmental change: from linkages to policy issues

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 1999

  Population dynamics, poverty and environmental change are linked in many ways and through multiple social and economic mechanisms, at various geographic levels. But not all those linkages have relevance for policy formulation in one of the three domains thus interconnected.
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  Intellectual Property Rights and Biodiversity: The Economic Myths

  GRAIN, 1999

  Examines the economic costs and benefits of the WTO's Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs), with special regard for developing countries and their wealth of biological diversity.

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