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Analysis of structural adjustment and its impact on the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa has made considerable progress over the last few years. Debate has shown that liberalization alone is not...

This publication sets out to examine the major challenges for indigenous peoples to obtain adequate access to and utilization of quality health care services. It provides an important background to...

At its first session, the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) requested the United Nations System to produce a report on the state of the world’s indigenous peoples (SOWIP)...

On 13 September 2007, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. It marked the culmination of decades of struggle among indigenous...

While indigenous peoples make up around 370 million of the world’s population – some 5 per cent – they constitute around one-third of the world’s 900 million extremely poor rural people. Every day...

This publication offers a wide-ranging perspective on indigenous peoples’ rights to lands, territories and resources, examining legislation and agreements at the national and international level...

This publication presents essays addressing the core problem of the form, pace and character of the relationship that is evolving between the general world trading system and the countries of Eastern...

This volume presents a review of the dynamic changes going on in the Chinese economic system. In particular it analyzes the amazing rapid growth of the township and village enterprise (TVE) sector...

This publication discusses the scenarios and policies on how the deforestation of natural forests and the expansion of forest plantations influence the global carbon cycle through emissions and...

This publication comprises six case studies which were prepared for the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States. The case studies deal with the following...

The study explains the background of the changes taking place in the former socialist countries and looks at the problems, causes and consequences of unemployment. The overview on the successor states...

The study is an important policy-oriented contribution to the analysis and the solution of the problems of food security in a macroeconomic dimension. It draws attention to factors related to the...

The volume, while focusing on the consequences of reforms, also deals with the structural changes which are taking place as a result of export orientation in the economies and their dual impact on...

This study, which deals with some of the general aspects of globalization focuses on the globalization process from a Latin American perspective. It shows that Latin America belongs to the hemisphere...

This study is the report of an important project on the interrelations between trade, industrialization and development. The project was initiated in order to look at the subject in the new era of the...

The research project, in the framework of which this study has been written, focuses on the Sub-Saharan African countries and looks at the different aspects of the unemployment problem. Among the key...

In the Middle East, the interaction between economic and political factors, issues and processes have always been strong. The fact that this region became a fundamentally important source of oil...

Countries enjoying more liberty at home, more material well-being, more solidarity from abroad - these are the `good times' for most of Latin America. But democracy is not sufficiently distinguished...

This state-of-the-art publication offers great insight into the economic, security and environmental regionalization in southern Africa. In utilizing the concept of 'new regionalization'- a change...

East Asian regionalism is often described as de facto regionalism, whereas regionalization is supposed to take place de jure in Europe and North America. This publication presents a study on...