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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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  Migration and pro-poor policy in Africa

  Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2004

  This paper reports on the findings of a survey on migration and pro-poor policy in Africa.
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  Explaining African economic growth performance: the case of Ghana

  Global Development Network, 2002

  With positive economic growth since the mid 1980s, Ghana has regularly been put forward as a showcase of success in Africa. What accounts for this growth? This paper examines Ghana’s growth record and the macroeconomic policies that produced this growth.The authors review Ghana’s economic performance and note that Ghana’s overall growth record has one of unevenness.
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  Water justice for all: global and local resistance to the control and commodification of water

  Friends of the Earth International, 2003

  This report explores the issue of global water justice.
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  Highly affected, rarely considered: the International Youth Parliament Commission’s report on the impacts of globalisation on young people

  International Youth Parliament, Oxfam, 2003

  This report presents the view of the Youth Commission on Globalisation, an International Youth Parliament (IYP) initiative, on some of the challenges that globalisation presents to the world.
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  Spreading the gains from globalisation: what can be learned from value chains analysis?

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2000

  This paper analyses the unequal character of recent processes of globalisation and identifies key policies that can help redress this imbalance.
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  Assessment of investment climate in Georgia

  Local Government Information Center, Georgia, 2003

  There is no need to explain the importance of investment for national economies. Investment, along with consumption and savings, plays a central role in a country’s economic performance. However, Georgia lacks the necessary investment resources required for development, and so, foreign investments are considered crucial for economic development and growth.
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  The information revolution and globalization: seizing new opportunities for youth employment

  Youth Employment Summit, 2002

  This paper is about how to harness IT to foster youth employment or livelihood opportunities in developing countries.
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  Water privatisation in Latin America, 2002

  Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002

  This report sets out the main developments and current situation in respect of water privatisation and restructuring in Latin America as at June 2002. It assesses the multinationals active in Latin America; issues of public sector water and resistance; the Argentina crisis; conditionality problems; labour issues; and public finance. It presents developments by country in south and central America.
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  Understanding the links: globalization, health sector reform, gender and reproductive health

  Ford Foundation, 2003

  The paper considers the relevance of globalisation for women’s reproductive health and rights in the context of health sector programs and provides a gender analysis of sector-wide programs (SWAPs) and sector reforms examining how reproductive health is defined in sector-wide programs.

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