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Can non-timber forest product trade resolve problems of development and conservation in the developing world?
This article evaluates the extent to which Non Timber Forest Product (NTFP) trade leads to both livelihood improvement and forest conservation. The ...
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What are China's policy options in terms of trade?
Since joining the WTO, China has pursued a three-pronged economic and trade development strategy of pushing forward regional and bilateral trade cooperation ...
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Economic realities in the Southern African Development Community
This report consists of proceedings of the Fifth Southern African Forum on Trade (SAFT) held in South Africa. The Forum evaluated regional achievements, ...
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The economic crisis and Filipino women's rights
In the Philippines, the financial crisis has been particularly hard on the low income classes to which many unskilled, mainly women workers in the ...
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Methods to beat the negative effects of financial crisis on Cambodian women
The global economic downturn in recent 2008 affected negatively Cambodia's major economy base, which relies particularly on textile exports, ...
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Export revenues propping up the Malawian economy
This paper applies a growth diagnostics approach to identify the most binding constraints to private-sector growth in Malawi. The authors find that growth ...
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Macroeconomic database covering Latin American and the Caribbean
The Latin American and Caribbean Macro Watch Data Tool database collects information from public sources (mostly web based) in IDB's 26 borrowing ...
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Is reallocation of labour from agriculture to non-agriculture sector the key source of China's growth?
There has been continued debate over the sources of China's remarkable growth over the last three decades. This paper tries to determine and ...
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Trade unions and labour laws around the world
This book looks at the current state of works councils and trade unions for 33 countries around the world. Topics include: ...
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