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Searching with a thematic focus on Aid and debt, Poverty, Trade Policy, Trade Liberalisation

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  Gender and labour market liberalisation in Africa

  African Labour Research Network, 2004

  This report examines the liberalisation of the labour market in Africa from a gender perspective. It analyses current economic and labour policies of seven African countries to see their impact on the labour force and the organised labour movement in general, and women in particular.
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  Trade and poverty mainstreaming: lessons from Southern Africa

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This draft paper looks at the links between trade and poverty but does not dwell on the pros and cons of trade liberalisation.
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  The least developed countries report 2004: linking international trade with policy reduction

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2004

  This report examines the relationship between trade and poverty in the less developed countries.
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  Reality and analysis: personal and technical reflections on the working lives of six women

  Poverty, inequality and development research at Cornell University, 2004

  A group of development analysts – researchers, activists, and practitioners - engaged in an unusual exercise in early 2004. They had a dialogue about labour market, trade and poverty issues, but they preceded the dialogue with exposure to the realities of the lives of six host women in Gujarat: Dohiben, Kalavatiben, Kamlaben, Kesarben, Leelaben and Ushaben.
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  A review of regional strategies addressing poverty

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  This paper reviews the main development strategies that have been pursued in Africa since the 1970s with the aim of stirring a debate that can be helpful in the search for new opportunities for poverty reduction in the region.The paper focuses its attention on the following broad policies:Structural adjustment policies: characterised by a keen interest on the part of internationa
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  Can trade reform reduce global poverty?

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper looks at the issue of trade reform in the context of the current development policy agenda.
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  Too hot to handle?: the absence of trade policy from PRSPs

  Christian Aid, 2003

  This briefing note draws on research commissioned by Christian Aid into the trade and poverty content of PRSPs. This document argues that the discussion around PRSPs in many countries, does not fully take into account the impact of trade policies among the poor.
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  Does globalization help the poor?

  Alternet, 2002

  This article criticises the negative impact of the advocates of of economic globalization (World Bank; IMF; WTO) on the world's poor.The article finds that:the advocates of globalisation stress that those that oppose globalisation are hurting the poor by arresting the development of free trade and liberalisationeconomic globalisation is causing an acceleration in poverty and inequal
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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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