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East Asia, for long the epitome of successful engagement in trade, faces serious challenges: technological change that may threaten the very model of labor intensive industrialization and a backlash against globalization that may reduce access to important markets. A detailed analysis of the...
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Global growth is expected to be 2.8 percent in 2015, but is expected to pick up to 3.2 percent in 2016-17. Growth in developing countries and some high-income countries is set to disappoint again this year. The prospect of rising borrowing costs will compound the challenges many developing...
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In recent years, international trade in creative goods and services has been expanding. But this upward march is not lifting all boats. Although many developing countries are endowed with vast cultural wealth, they still lag behind. In addition, women are not faring well. Much needs to be done...
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This paper examines how the dismantling of coercive institutions associated with the end of apartheid in South Africa in 1994 affected the istribution of rents from natural resource exports. It identifies the interplay between coercive institutions and natural resource rents as an important...
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This is a speech given by Mr. Wolfensohn to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, on January 27, 1998 at Addis Ababa. He presented a development agenda in Africa which covers: human resource development, capacity building, rural development and rural transformation, private sector...
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. The overview consists of three 'chapters' on the crops, livestock, and fisheries sub-sectors, and a summary report. This … 'chapter' provides a broad national overview of: (a) the magnitude, impacts, and drivers of pollution related to the fisheries …
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of fisheries data, and extensive meetings with people from the Federal Government, Provincial Governments, the private … fisheries, culture fisheries, and cross-cutting issues. The findings are organized in four remaining sections: part two provides … an overview of the current state of fisheries in Pakistan. Information on fisheries' contribution to the economy …
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Fisheries and aquaculture make a significant contribution to Myanmar's economy. The fisheries sector contributes … fisheries, freshwater fisheries, and aquaculture contribute to production in roughly equal proportions, for a total annual … production of 3 million tons. Fisheries' contributions to economic output and employment in Myanmar still lag behind other …
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The understanding of the impacts of climate change on fisheries is constantly increasing and can be organized around …-dependent ecological processes. This report aims to assess, to the extent possible, the potential impact of climate change on fisheries and … climate change are likely to affect fish stocks and the fisheries that depend on them and highlights the coastal countries and …
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This report is prepared with the objective of conducting a rapid diagnosis of the fisheries sector and establishing an … overview of it in the Gaza Strip (GS). The fisheries and aquaculture sector in the GS have many challenges, including … community in the GS. A rapid diagnosis and understanding of the current state of the fisheries sector is a first step towards …
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