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  Sending money home: a survey of remittance products and services in the United Kingdom

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This report provides comparable and accessible information on the products and services available to people wanting to send money home from the UK to developing countries. The report aims to increase transparency on costs, speed of money transfer, and the coverage and customer service that banks, building societies and money transfer operators offer in the UK.
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  Beyond remittances: the role of diaspora in poverty reduction in their countries of origin

  Microfinance Gateway, CGAP, 2004

  This paper analyses the impact of established Diaspora on the reduction of poverty, and identifies ways in which policy interventions, especially from donors of official development assistance, might strengthen that impact.This paper specifically: examines the role of Diaspora in poverty reduction through four main areas of focus: policy and practice towards Diaspora on the part
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  India: An integral part of new Asia

  Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, University of Singapore, 2004

  As East Asian economies emerge from the shadow of the 1997 crisis, there appears to be an increasing recognition that greater economic coordination and cooperation among major Asian countries is essential to manage globalisation challenges, and to enhance Asia’s role in the world affairs.
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  Is trafficking in human beings demand driven?: a multi-country pilot study

  International Organization for Migration, 2003

  This study examines the factors that lead to the exploitation of trafficked women and children.
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  Globalization, local ecosystems and the rural poor

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper looks at how globalisation leads to poverty via the degradation of local ecosystems on which the poor depend for their livelihood.It uses models on ecosystem dynamics from ecology and links them to models in New Institutional Economics that examine how institutions and technologies evolve.
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  Textile and clothing trade rules prevent poverty alleviation

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Textiles and clothing exports from developing countries continue to undermine poverty alleviation despite current changes to trade rules. Since 1974, rich countries have used the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) quotas to restrict entry of these goods to their markets.
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  Migration and rural assets: evidence from surveys in three semi-arid regions in South Africa, India and Botswana

  Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, 2003

  This study explores the links between inequality and migration in semi-arid areas in three developing countries.
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  Determinants of export performance of Indian firms – A strategic perspective

  Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2004

  Macroeconomic policy reforms initiated in India since 1991 have brought about a significant improvement in the export performance of Indian firms.
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  Exploitation of information and communication technology by terrorist organisations

  Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, India, 2003

  The phenomenal growth of computer and communication technologies, or ICT, has brought great benefits attached with some risks. Some of the negative risks which have emerged include the cooption of technology by terrorist organisations for use in their nefarious activities.
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  Diplomacy and the news media: a comment on the Indian experience

  Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, India, 2003

  The revolution in communication and information technologies, the capability to broadcast almost every significant development in world events to almost every place on the globe and the creation and expansion of the Internet have led to the globalization of electronic journalism and to worldwide growth in networks, stations and communications.

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