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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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  Environment benefits from removing trade restrictions and distortions: background for WTO negotiations

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  The interaction between environmental policies and trade policies emerged as an issue at the end of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in 1994.
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  Global Trade expansion and liberalisation: gender issues and impacts

  BRIDGE, 1998

  A 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.
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  Business services in the Globalizing African economies

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Discusses the role of business services in the economy in general and especially in the low-income African economies. At the global level large transnational business service firms are developing global service networks linking the world’s large cities together and serving especially the large transnational companies, but apparently largely by-passing Africa.
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  Micro-macro linkages in financial markets: the impact of financial liberalisation on access to rural credit in four African countries

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 1999

  Almost every programme of economic reform contains a financial liberalisation component; but little work has been done to assess the effects of financial liberalisation on access to credit in individual markets.
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  Why liberalization alone has not improved agricultural productivity in Zambia: the role of asset ownership and working capital constraints

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  In 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.
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  Adjustment and poverty in Mexican agriculture: how farmers' wealth affects supply response

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  By and large, it appears that the goals of agricultural reform are being met in Mexico.
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  Agriculture and the policy environment: Zambia and Zimbabwe: political dreams and policy nightmares

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  The paper examines the effect of differing policies in the post-independence period on the agricultural and overall economic performance of Zambia and Zimbabwe. It focuses on the interaction between macroeconomic and agricultural policy reforms. It shows that macro and micro reforms need to be closely linked and that both are critical to sectoral performance.
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  Structure and conduct of major agricultural input and output markets and response to reforms by rural households in Madagascar

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 1998

  Interim reports on adjustment in the input trading sector; price behavior in local markets; and adjustment farm households have been published and are available online.

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