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Searching with a thematic focus on Globalisation, Governance, Poverty

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  Attacking Poverty: World Development Report 2000/2001

  World Development Report, World Bank, 2000

  The report builds on the view that poverty means not only low incomes and low consumption but also lack of education and poor nutrition and health.
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  Human Development Report 2001: making new technologies work for human development

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2001

  This 2001 UNDP Human Development Report looks specifically at how new technologies will affect developing countries and poor people. Many people fear that these technologies may be of little use to the developing world - or that they might actually widen the already savage inequalities between North and South, rich and poor.
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  The determinants of the national position of Brazil on climate change : empirical reflections

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997

  International negotiations on the Framework Convention on Climate Change have been characterized by severe polarization between developed and developing countries. The G77, led by major countries such as Brazil, India, and China, illustrated a remarkable capacity to manifest its importance in the final text of the Convention.
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  Strategies for Eliminating Child Labour: prevention, removal and rehabilitation: synthesis paper for International Child Labour Conference (Oslo)

  International Labour Organization, 1997
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  UNDP Human Development Report 1999

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1999

  Focuses on issues of inter-dependence and globalisation. Considers how markets have been allowed to dominate the process, and the benefits and opportunities have not been shared equitably. Argues that while many millions of people are being further marginalized by their lack of access to new technologies, including the Internet, growing inequalities are not inevitable.
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  Entering the 21st Century: World Development Report 1999/2000

  World Development Report, World Bank, 1999

  Localization—the growing economic and political power of cities, provinces, and other sub-national entities—will be one of the most important new trends in the 21st century.
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  Eliminating world poverty: making globalisation work for the poor

  DFID White Paper on Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalisation Work for the Poor, 2000

  While progress has been made over the years in development, many challenges yet remain in order to make globalisation work for the poor.
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  Global farming systems study: challenges and priorities to 2030

  Rural Development Strategy Team, World Bank, 2001

  For more than a decade, the proportion of internationally supported public investment directed at agriculture and the rural sector in developing countries has been declining. Moreover, this is occuring at a time in which the process of globalisation is changing patters of trade and investment, placing agricultural producers and communities under tremendous pressure to adapt in order to survive.
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  Policies for Economic Take-off

  OECD Development Centre, 1996

  Political commitment is the key ingredient needed for economic take-off and long-term growth. Poor countries will be unable to escape the vicious circle of poverty unless they and the international community join forces. Inappropriate financial policies can lead to a decline in and poor allocation of savings, subsequently holding back growth.
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  Social impact of globalisation in Southeast Asia

  OECD Development Centre, 2001

  The paper focuses on four Southeast Asian economies, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines. It looks at the underlying factors explaining the variance between the experience of these countries.

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