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  Things fall apart: collapse of the Nigerian industry

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Nigeria has plentiful natural resources, the largest domestic market in Africa and an abundant and cheap labour force. Why, then, has its industrial performance been so disappointing? What capability factors may explain this? Is there any prospect of increasing Nigeria’s industrial capacity to reverse its slide into industrial marginalisation?
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  Win-win in the inner city? Meeting the needs of business and the poor

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  In city centres across the developing world commercial developments are driving out low- income households and small businesses. What can be done to help poor communities withstand pressures for their relocation, usually to unsuitable, edge-of-city locations?
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  Adolescent and youth reproductive health in Indonesia: status, issues, policies, and programs

  US Agency for International Development, 2003

  Survey of the reproductive health status of adolescents in the country.The report looks at the social context and gender socialization issues that set girls and boys apart in terms of life expectations, educational attainment, job prospects, labor force participation, reproduction, and duties in the household.The report then outlines laws and policies that pertain to ARH and discusses infor
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  Mangroves: local livelihoods vs. corporate profits

  World Rainforest Movement, 2003

  This book gathers a selection of articles published in the monthly electronic bulletin of the World Rainforest Movement (WRM), addressing the issue of the processes leading to the destruction of mangrove forests and the struggles developed at the local and global levels to protect and use these forests in a socially equitable and environmentally adequate manner.The articles give an overview of
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  IP and biotechnology in Southeast Asia

  Lerson Institute, 2003

  This article reviews the status and trends of intellectual property issues with respect to biotechnology in Southeast Asia. The paper reviews the general situation of biotech IP in the region, summarises strategies employed by Southeast Asian countries and identifies future opportunities.
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  Tropical wildfires pose new threat to coral reefs

  SciDev.Net, 2003

  This article reports on two reports in Science, the full text of which can be accessed from SciDev. The first of the Science reports provides evidence that the Indonesian forest fires created a 'red tide' when smoke from the fires landing on water increased the iron levels in the sea. The red tide suffocated the corals and seems to have caused serious damage to the reefs around the wildfires.
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  Social security scheme in Indonesia: an utopic programme?

  International Social Security Association, 2003

  This paper examines the case of Indonesia, a country without a social security system up until now.
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  Social Policy in an Era of Trade Intensification: A Perspective from Asian Women

  Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, 2002

  This is the second in a series of three comprehensive economic literacy packets produced by the Asia Network of the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN). The IGTN aims to engage with the global women's movement to raise awareness of the relationship between gender relations and macroeonomic and trade polices.
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  Trade Intensification in Asia Economies: What it Means to Women's Work

  Women and Gender Institute, 2002

  This is the first in a series of three comprehensive economic literacy packets produced by the Asia Network of the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN). The IGTN aims to engage with the global women's movement to raise awareness of the relationship between gender relations and macroeonomic and trade polices.
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  Money makes the war go round - finance, war and peace

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Does the humanitarian community understand the relationship between finance, war and peace? How does the financial sector reinforce poverty and inequality and fuel conflict?

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