"Importing Equality or Exporting Jobs?: Competition and Gender Wage and Employment Differentials in U.S. Manufacturing" [PDF]
This study investigates the impact of increased import competition on gender wage and employment differentials in U.S. manufacturing over the period from 1976 to 1993.
Ebru Kongar
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Water Governance Challenges: Managing Competition and Scarcity for Hunger and Poverty Reduction and Environmental Sustainability [PDF]
human development, water ...
Håkan Tropp, Malin Falkenmark and Jan Lundqvist
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A Global Alliance Against Forced Labour: Report I (B) [PDF]
, 2005 Explains how the concept of forced labor is defined in international law and discusses some parameters for identifying contemporary forced labor situations in practice.
International Labour Conference 93rd Session +1 more
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The Firms Speak: What the World Business Environment Survey Tells Us about Constraints on Private Sector Development [PDF]
This chapter summarizes the salient results of the World Business Environment Survey (WBES). It shows that important dimensions of the climate for business operation and investment can be measured, analyzed, and compared across countries, and that ...
Batra, Geeta +2 more
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On boxes, contents, and users [PDF]
An important component of the current debate about agriculture trade negotiations is whether further liberalization of trade and agricultural policies may help or hinder food security in WTO member countries.
Diaz-Bonilla, Eugenio +2 more
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Short Term Living Conditions and Long Term Prospects of Immigrant Children in Germany [PDF]
In Germany the foreign born population is made up of foreigners and so called "ethnic Germans" who migrated from eastern European countries to Germany. While the first group is confronted with problems arising from the typical German concept of ethnicity
Gert G. Wagner, Joachim R. Frick
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How does economic development and import dependency affect agricultural price protection? A pooled cross-country and time-series analysis for the wheat sector [PDF]
This article analyzes determinants of agricultural price protection for one important food, wheat, in a pooled cross-country and time-series analysis.
Herrmann, Roland
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Pre-Disaster Risk Management in Post-Earthquake (1999) Turkey [PDF]
, 2010 This paper assesses the status of pre-disaster risk management in the case of Turkey. By focusing on the period following the catastrophic August 17, 1999 earthquake, the study benefits from USAID’s Disaster Risk Management Benchmarking Tool (DRMBT).
Erdem, Engin Ibrahim
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease: Violent civil unrest and global social assistance provision. [PDF]
Front Sociol, 2022 Çemen R, Yörük E.
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Temporary Star or Emerging Tiger? Turkey's Recent Economic Performance in a Global Setting [PDF]
This article assesses the recent performance of the Turkish economy, questioning whether the currently observed unusual boom conditions will lead to a process of sustainable growth.
İsmail Emre Bayram, Ziya Öniş
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