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Professional services and development : a study of Mozambique
Fernandes, Ana Margarida - 2009
"Professional skills are scarce in Mozambique, even by the standards of low-income countries. The solution, however, is not necessarily to create more Mozambican training institutions but to address market-specific problems. Where skills are already the binding constraint (for example, in...
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World Development Report 2007 Development and the Next Generation
eSocialSciences; World Bank - 2008
The Report examines five pivotal phases of life that can help unleash the development of young people’s potential …
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Geography in Motion: World Development Report 2009 (excerpt)
World Bank - In: Transnational Corporations Review 1 (2009) 3, pp. 40-46
This study from the World Bank calls for a rebalancing of policy discussions and shows how to use the three dimensions of density, distance, and division to tailor policy instruments to address integration challenges ranging from the relatively straightforward to the very complex.
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Pesticide traders' perception of health risks : evidence from bangladesh
Dasgupta, Susmita - 2005
"As pesticide traders are important sources of information about the health impacts of pesticides, a crucial understanding of their perception is necessary to guide further pesticide information dissemination efforts through this channel. To this end, a 2003 survey of 110 Bangladeshi pesticide...
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Managing openness : trade and outward-oriented growth after the crisis
Shepherd, Ben (contributor); Haddad, Mona (contributor) - 2011
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Regional economic integration in the Middle East and North Africa : beyond trade reform
Rouis, Mustapha - 2012
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Sustaining trade reform : institutional lessons from Argentina and Peru
Baracat, Elías - 2013
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Services in Doha : what's on the table?
Gootiiz, Batshur - 2009
"Services trade reform matters, but what is Doha doing about it? It has been hard to judge, because of the opaqueness … on the table. It presents the results of the first survey of applied trade policies in the major services sectors of 56 … promises greater security of access to markets but not any additional liberalization. Uruguay Round commitments are on average …
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Can maquila booms reduce poverty? : evidence from Honduras
De Hoyos, Rafael E. - 2008
"This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for women in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila...
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Does regionalism affect trade liberalization toward non-members ?
Estevadeordal, Antoni - 2008
"This paper examines the effect of regionalism on unilateral trade liberalization using industry-level data on applied … results suggest that concerns about a negative effect of preferential liberalization on external trade liberalization are …
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