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FOREST TRANSITIONS AND CARBON FLUX

Forest Transitions and Carbon Fluxes

Global Scenarios and Policies

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World Development Studies
13 Oct 2000
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 sequestration and on consequence how forestry operations impact on the climate, and vice versa. It incl...
EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS OF CHINA

Evolutionary Dynamics of China's Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises in the 1990s, The

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World Development Studies
13 Oct 2000
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, successful as a development instrument in remote poverty-stricken areas as well as in the highly co...
ASPECTS OF TRANSITION

Aspects of Transition

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World Development Studies
15 Sep 2000
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 and Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. The studies approach this question from diverse a...
LIBERALIZED AND NEGLECTED? FOOD MA

Liberalized and Neglected? Food Marketing Policies in Eastern Africa

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World Development Studies
11 Sep 1998
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 sufficient to restore sustained growth to the region. This publication presents a study on the impact o...
REGIONALIZATION IN EAST ASIA-PACIF

Regionalization in East Asia-Pacific

An Exclusive Process

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World Development Studies
1 Aug 1997
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 regionalization and regional cooperation in East Asia in general and in Southeast Asia in particular. It a...
REGIONALIZATION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

Regionalization in Southern Africa

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World Development Studies
9 May 1997
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 from relative heterogeneity to increased homogeneity, this publication analyzes the regional integra...
ELUSIVE MIRACLE: LATIN AMERICA IN

Elusive Miracle, The

Latin America in the 1990's

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World Development Studies
21 Mar 1997
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 from populism, there is a persistent international solitude and economic progress has not been sec...
CHANGING PATTERNS OF EMPLOYMENT AN

Changing Patterns of Employment and Unemployment in Africa

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World Development Studies
21 Mar 1997
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 questions looked at is the direction of the structural changes in output and their implications f...
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE PEACE PRO

Political Economy of the Peace Process in a Changing Middle East, The

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World Development Studies
21 Mar 1997
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, brought it into the most direct and strategic interests of the Western world. The peace process betwe...
TRADE, TRADE POLICY AND INDUSTRIAL

Trade, Trade Policy and Industrialization Reconsidered

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World Development Studies
21 Mar 1997
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 global economy. This was marked on the one hand by important spatial, structural, and organizati...
LIMITS OF THE GLOBAL VILLAGE, THE

Limits of the Global Village, The

Globalization, Nations and the State

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World Development Studies
21 Mar 1997
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 which has probably been more exposed to the different dimensions of globalization in the developi...
ECONOMIC REFORMS, WOMENS EMPLOYMEN

Economic Reforms, Women's Employment, and Social Policies

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World Development Studies
21 Mar 1997
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 women in the environment of four countries: China, Viet Nam, Egypt and Cuba.
FOOD SECURITY IN AFRICA

Food Security in Africa

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World Development Studies
21 Mar 1997
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 shortcomings of agricultural policies, pricing, marketing, taxation, the neglect of investments in ag...
EMERGING LABOUR MARKETS

Emerging Labour Markets

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World Development Studies
21 Mar 1997
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 of the former Soviet Union is a particularly interesting contribution to the understanding of th...
SMALL ISLANDS, BIG ISSUES

Small Islands, Big Issues

Crucial Issues in the Sustainable Development of Small Developing Islands

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World Development Studies
21 Mar 1997