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• Global Witness welcomes new commitment to transparency in Sudan

  Following a landmark seminar on oil revenue transparency, Global Witness welcomes the commitment to increase...

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• Fair Trade Is Growing But Africans Lag Behind

  Despite its minuscule share of world trade, fair trade is a booming business, importing certified foodstuffs and...

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• A study on capacity building for academia in trade for development [PDF, 18.28 KB]

  This policy guide explains that significant increase in trade related capacity-building activities over the last...

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• The Economics of Low Carbon, Climate Resilient Patterns of Growth in Developing Countries: A Review of the Evidence [59.64 KB]

  This study reviews evidence from the economics of climate change to assess to what extent developing countries can...

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• Who are the MDG trainblazers? A new MDG progress index

  In this working paper, the authors introduce an MDG Progress Index to assess how on or off track countries are toward...

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• Pacific MDG information

  Launched in August 2010, Pacific Info is a customised database that provides Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) data...

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• Research makes the news

  Research into development issues is not an end in itself. If knowledge created by researchers is shared and debated...

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• Pacific Pacer Plus health worries

  A health group is concerned about the impact PACER Plus trade agreement could have on health standards in the Pacific;...

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• Increasing access to health workers in remote and rural areas through improved retention

  Globally, approximately one half of the population lives in rural areas, but less than 38% of the nurses and less than...

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• Outrage Over Claim that Anti-GM Campaign "Causes Hunger"

  Civil society organisations have rebutted claims that the international campaign against genetically modified crops is...

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