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Trade and Enviromental Standards

During the next WTO Round there will be strong calls explicitly to integrate environmental issues into the trade agenda.

International Investment Treaties and Developing Countries

Negotiations at the World Trade Organization (WTO) increasingly affect cross-border investment, as many current trade issues have an investment dimension. In consequence, the European Commission has included investment in its proposed list of agenda items for a comprehensive "Millennium Round".

Towards a Development Round

This Briefing "fills in the gaps" with analysis of the expanding remit of trade policy, the role of the Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU), the future of preferences, and the challenge of measuring the impact of trade policy on development and the relief of poverty.

Exploring Understandings of Institutions and Uncertainty: New Directions in Natural Resource Management

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

The paper examines the nexus between institutions and uncertainty in natural resources management contexts. It argues that conventional understandings of institutions fail to focus on how institutions deal with the ever-increasing forms of uncertainty impinging on rural livelihoods.

Rural health prepayment schemes in China: towards a more active role for government

A large majority of China's rural population were members of health prepayment schemes in the 1970's. Most of these schemes collapsed during the transition to a market economy. Some localities subsequently re-established schemes. In early 1997 a new government policy identified health prepayment as a major potential source of rural health finance.

The New Institutional Economics of Privitizing Africa’s Veterinary Services

Truth, trust and market transactions: What do we know?

John Humphrey and Hubert Schmitz have recently made an important contribution to the literature on trust and economic transactions...

Readjusting Labour: Enterprise Restructuring, Social Consequences and Policy Responses in Urban China

Published by: Macmillan

Keeping the Political In (A Response to ‘Chinese Women, Gender and Sexuality’, W. Jankowiak)

Poverty and Well-being in Rural Bangladesh: Impact of Economic Growth and Rural Development