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For several decades, the international community has aspired to integrate the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Yet, no country has achieved the patterns of consumption and production that could sustain global prosperity in the coming decades. Thus, with the...
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Abstract As Mr. Barber Conable observes in his Foreword, the World Development Report 1991 "synthesises and interprets … the lessons of forty years of development experience" (p. iii). In view of the World Bank's leading role in development …
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and corruption not only remain, they have become the primary development challenges of the 21st century. In particular … development in Africa. Furthermore, defeating a terrorist network requires African nations to work with international partners to … mighty through GOD in pulling down strongholds and demonic imaginations. As a road-map to sustainable development, the paper …
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contribution to a development agenda for the UN for the 1990s. The notes suggest employment as the central focus of the new … development agenda for the global community. …
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economic development of developing countries in the new world economy. The author argues that the answer to this question … depends on the development objective of the country and the role envisaged for international trade. If the role of … sake of integration, the industrial policy is irrelevant. By contrast, if development is the ultimate objective of their …
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Abstract Following closely my remit, this paper reviews and assesses Asian economic development in the recent post-1980 … industrialization and fast growth over a sustained period in the entire history of mankind. Recall that Japan in 1950 produced less than …. By 1980 Japan overtook the US to become the largest producer of automobiles in the world. …
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As often argued, a negative perception of immigration, or even emigration, prevails public opinions and governments in … adequate policies could make migration a genuine instrument for economic and social development. Therefore, the conditions … of its multiple migration roles as a country of emigration, immigration and transit, over time; secondly because, this …
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pertinent to enquire about the direction to which the position and status of women are moving with the development of the …
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EPAs between the EU and ACP countries can be viewed as being anti mercantilist and there has been a lot of speculations about their outcome. The aim of the study is to determine the effects of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union (EU) and the Southern African...
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telling of the emergence and development of a service for speedy, online distribution of recent additions to the broad … governance. The development of NEP provides an illustrative example for the kind of new business models that have emerged as the …
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