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Real wages and the demand for skilled and unskilled male labour in Ghana's manufacturing sector : 1991-1995
Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997Real wage rates in Ghana have fallen substantially over the last twenty years. In this paper survey data for the years 1991-1996 is used to assess whether this fall has continued in the 1990s.DocumentRates of return on physical and human capital in Africa's manufacturing sector
Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998In this paper two sets of issues are addressed using panel data from the manufacturing sector of five African countries. First, how high are the returns to human relative to physical capital. Second, what is the relative importance of technology and endowments of human and physical capital in determining differences in earnings and productivity across the countries.DocumentNAFTA Supplemental Agreements: Four Year Review
Institute for International Economics, USA, 1998Examines 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.DocumentFinancial Flows and the Environmental Strategy in Indonesia in the 1990s
World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 1998Examination of the rises and falls in international public financial flows to Indonesia; the re-emergence of the International Monetary Fund as a major investor in the economy; and a proposed agenda for Indonesia's environmental movement.DocumentWho owns the ecosystem?
Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999Paper 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.DocumentTree Conservation Information Service
UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 1999Data on over 7000 tree species of global conservation concern, including IUCN red list category and supporting information, gathered using many sources: literature, journals, floras and most importantly contributions from over 300 botanists. The database is being continually updated.DocumentForced labour in Myanmar (Burma)
International Labour Organization, 1998Report finds evidence of the pervasive use of forced labour imposed on the civilian population throughout Myanmar by the authorities and the military for portering, the construction, maintenance and servicing of military camps, other work in support of the military, work on agriculture, logging and other production projects undertaken by the authorities or the military, sometimes for the profitDocumentNFTPs, Institutions, and Income Generation in Nepal: Lessons for Community Forestry [non-timber forest products]
NepalNet, 1998This study documents four different institutional mechanisms that promote non-wood forest products to generate income. The objective is to highlight some of the institutional guidelines that are relevant to community forestry. The four institutional approaches documented in this paper are listed below. 1.DocumentForests in Sustainable Development: guidelines for forest sector development cooperation
European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 1998Paper defines a strategy for forest sector development, and translates it for practical application. In response to the causes of deforestation and desertification, which are rooted in a complex web of socio-economic factors (both inside and, mainly, outside the forests) these guidelines are centred on the needs of people living in and making a living from forests.