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Creating Sustainable Enterprise
Impact are global leaders in sustainable business transformation and people development. Our learning journeys and training solutions inspire new thinking and generate the meaningful dialogue needed to create and develop sustainable enterprise.
Impact help people work more effectively together. As experts in behavioural change and leadership deve. . .
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28 Apr 2008 |
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Carmen Villegas Caballero
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World Investment Directory, Volume X, Africa 2008
This publication covers 53 economies of the African region, with FDI profiles based on data available as of December 2007.
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21 Apr 2008 |
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Persephone Economou
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Global Monitoring Report 2008
This 2008 World Bank-IMF report warns that most countries will fall short on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of eight globally agreed development goals with a due date of 2015. Though much of the world is set to cut extreme poverty in half by then, prospects are gravest for the goals of reducing child and maternal mortality. Serious . . .
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21 Apr 2008 |
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John Daly
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World Investment Forum 2008 - WAIPA
The annual WAIPA event that took place in Ghana during 18-21 April 2008.
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21 Apr 2008 |
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Persephone Economou
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Invest in Ghana: Focus Kumasi
The Guide, the first city investment guide in West Africa, was prepared by the Millennium Cities Initiative (MCI) in cooperation with the Columbia Program on International Investment (CPII) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), with the support of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the . . .
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21 Apr 2008 |
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Persephone Economou
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International Investment Law
The OECD International Investment Law publication provides an unparalleled source of information on key legal issues in international investment agreements. This issue examines and analyses four issues: the definition of investor and investment; the interpretation of umbrella clauses in investment agreements; coverage of environmental, labour and . . .
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18 Apr 2008 |
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Jonathan Coppel
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Black-Tie Optional: 'Stepsister' Cities Flourish in the Shadows
Author: Josh Stephens -
Say you're a big city. But right next door is an even bigger big city. What do you do to stand out? Josh Stephens explores the unique plight of America's so-called stepsister cities.
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17 Apr 2008 |
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Giulia D'Amico
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Lamy: Doha Round conclusion will reassure world financial markets
Director-General Pascal Lamy, in his intervention at the International Monetary and Financial Committee meeting on 12 April 2008 in Washington, urged financial leaders to push “now” for the conclusion of the Doha Round. He said: “I am completely convinced that we have it within our means, politically and technically, to finish the Doha Round this y. . .
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17 Apr 2008 |
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Shu-Quan HE
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UN Population Division
The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations provides many important reports that can be downloaded without charge. The reports and data include not only historical data and projects of population, but also analysis of urbanization , international migration and the impacts of population trends on ed. . .
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16 Apr 2008 |
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John Daly
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Foreign Direct Investment from China, India and South Africa in Sub-Saharan Africa: A New or Old Phenomenon?
Abstract: "The burgeoning literature on outward foreign direct investment from emerging markets has largely focused on analysing the motives of investors as reported by parent companies. This paper, instead, focuses on firm-level investments originating from China, India or South Africa in fifteen host countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)." WIDER . . .
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16 Apr 2008 |
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Persephone Economou
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State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World
The coming century of climate change, and how to manage and survive it.
Forthcoming in January 2009 from the Worldwatch Institute.
It's New Year's Day, 2101. Somehow, humanity survived the worst of global warming—the higher temperatures and sea levels and the more intense droughts and storms—and succeeded in stabilizing the Earth's climate.. . .
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15 Apr 2008 |
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Giulia D'Amico
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Global warming solutions are hurting indigenous people, says U.N.
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Large-scale solutions intended to help mitigate global warming are harming the very indigenous people who are likely to bear the brunt of climate change, warned the United Nations University (UNU) at a conference in Darwin, Australia.
Biofuel plantations, renewable energy projects like hydro. . .
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15 Apr 2008 |
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Giulia D'Amico
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OECD AGRICULTURAL TRADE REFORMS IMPACT ON INDIA’S PRICES AND PRODUCERS WELFARE by Surabhi Mittal (ICRIER)
This is one interesting paper by Surabhi Mittal, July 2007 (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations) titled: OECD AGRICULTURAL TRADE REFORMS IMPACT ON INDIA’S PRICES AND PRODUCERS WELFARE. The abstract says: "Rich countries use a combination of domestic market interventions and border
protection or export subsidies as a par. . .
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15 Apr 2008 |
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Shambhu Ghatak
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SERAJ)
Servicios a la Juventud, A.C. (SERAJ) es una organización civil que busca contribuir al mejoramiento de las condiciones de vida de los diversos sectores de juventud del país, a través de propuestas formativas innovadoras en las que los jóvenes son constructores de comunidad y sujetos de transformación social, para una sociedad más justa y solidaria. . .
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14 Apr 2008 |
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Giulia D'Amico
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"World Economic Outlook 2008: Housing and the Business Cycle"
Summary: "The World Economic Outlook (WEO) presents the IMF staff's analysis and projections of economic developments at the global level, in major country groups (classified by region, stage of development, etc.), and in many individual countries. It focuses on major economic policy issues as well as on the analysis of economic developments and pr. . .
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12 Apr 2008 |
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John Daly
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