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Global Trade expansion and liberalisation: gender issues and impacts
BRIDGE, 1998A major challenge for development policy aimed at reducing poverty is to enable a more equitable distribution of the gains associated with trade expansion and liberalisation. This requires a better understanding of why some countries and social groups are able to benefit more than others from increasing trade flows.DocumentKing Cotton under Sovereignty: The Private Marketing Chain for Cotton in Western Tanzania, 1997/98
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998Examines the emergence of a private sector marketing chain for cotton in Tanzania in the period 1994/95-1997/98, based on field work conducted between June and September 1997.DocumentStructural adjustment and agriculture in Guyana: From crisis to recovery
Sectoral Activities Programme, ILO, 1999Documents the decline and rise of the Guyanese economy, with particular focus on the agricultural sector and its contribution to employment creation and poverty alleviation. The demarcation line between decline and recovery is put at 1988 because of the adoption that year of the Economic Reform Programme, although actual recovery only started in 1990.DocumentWhy liberalization alone has not improved agricultural productivity in Zambia: the role of asset ownership and working capital constraints
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000In the early 1990s, Zambia initiated an ambitious program of liberalization that significantly opened the economy, shifting from a highly regulated and centralized to a more market-based and liberal economic paradigm.DocumentPolicies to promote non-farm rural employment in Latin America
Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2000Reviews a range studies published since 1994 on the developments in rural non-agricultural employment (RNAE) and income (RNAI) in several Latin American countries.It distinguishes between diversification arising from traditional agriculture and that driven by exogenous influences, highlighting the importance of the latter.DocumentAgricultural employment crisis in South Africa
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2000Paper provides preliminary evidence from a survey of farm workers, as well as from a survey of institutions serving commercial farmers, that indeed the underlying logic that is driving labour shedding and casualisation in South Africa is different from other countries.The findings suggest that farmers' collective decision to shed permanent workers is in large measure being driven by 'non-economDocumentAre wage adjustments an effective mechanism for poverty alleviation?: some simulations for domestic and farm workers
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2000The South African Department of Labour's recent call for public submissions and public comment on the issue of minimum wages and conditions of employment for domestic and farm workers has bought these issues to the fore. An analysis of the first of these two issues, namely wages, will place into sharp focus the stringent trade-offs faced by the Department of Labour in this part of the workforce.DocumentGlobal hunger and food security after the World Food Summit (ODI)
Overseas Development Institute, 1999DocumentRelief through development: maize market liberalisation in urban Kenya (MSU)
Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1999DocumentThe benefits of growth for Indonesian workers
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996Does improving the conditions of workers in Indonesia require government interventions?Indonesia's rapid, broadly based pattern of growth has led to a spectacular reduction in poverty in the past 25 years.Pages