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1 January 1999
This book develops an analytical framework and a set of tools which can assist planners, as well as trainers, to ensure that gender is systematically integrated into different aspects of their work.
1 January 1999
Published by: IDS
Anti-poverty programs often seek to improve their impact by targeting households for assistance according to one or more criteria. These are, however, often based upon measurements of key welfare indicators, such as income or consumption, in a single time period. This paper investigates whether it is possible to improve the accuracy of targeting by distinguishing between the chronically and transitorily poor on the basis of household characteristics.
1 January 1999
Published by: IDS
Despite widespread agreement that economic policy in developing countries should promote pro-poor growth, there is relatively little consensus regarding the definition of pro-poor growth.
1 January 1999
Published by: IDS
What are the prospects that governments and political systems in developing countries will be pro-poor? This synthesis of a large...
1 January 1999
Developing countries have joined the WTO in large numbers, in the expectation that its objectives of rule-based liberal trade will foster development. They will influence, and be affected by, the flurry of new negotiations scheduled for the turn of the millennium.
1 January 1999
Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) are fashionable. Many developing countries are, or are likely to become, involved In negotiating such arrangements. But do they advance or retard multilateralist and developmental objectives?
1 January 1999
The Uruguay Round began a process of reinforcing rules and liberalising trade in temperate agricultural goods. Developing countries in aggregate are likely to benefit eventually, but much work still has to be done and some states and socio-economic groups may face significant adjustment problems.
1 January 1999
The textile and clothing trade is of major importance for developing countries, including the poorest, and it will undergo substantial change over the next decade. The comprehensive system of protectionism, with the quantitative restrictions of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) at its heart, is being dismantled.
1 January 1999
How far do global markets need global competition rules? The question is under review both in the WTO and in other fora, such as the OECD. Developing countries want to see tougher rules applied to multinational corporations (MNCs) and less anti-dumping, but not to be forced into adopting specific WTO-defined rules.
1 January 1999
The WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) is the most comprehensive international agreement on intellectual property rights (IPRs), supplementing the basic World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Conventions with substantive obligations within WTO disciplines.