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The Impact of Globalization on Pre-Industrial, Technologically Quiescent Economies: Real Wages, Relative Factor Prices and Commodity Price Convergence in the Third World Before 1940

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Diciembre, 1998
Europa
América Latina y el Caribe

Paper uses a new pre-1940 Third World data base documenting real wages and relative factor prices to explore their determinants. There are three possibilities: external price shocks, factor endowment changes, and technological change. As the paper's title suggests, technological change is an unlikely explanation.

Forest cleansing: racial oppression in scientific nature conservation

LandLibrary Resource
Diciembre, 1998
Tailandia
Asia oriental
Oceanía

Article looks at a specific case of racial oppression manifesting itself within development programs. At a more general level, the article looks at how ecological project can become politicised.An example of this is South-East Asia, where valley-based states have regularly attempted to sedentarize or repress hill-dwelling ethnic minorities.

What's Special About Wildlife Management In Forests?: Concepts And Models Of Rights-Based Management, With Recent Evidence From West-Central Africa

LandLibrary Resource
Diciembre, 1998
Malí
África subsahariana

Wildlife consumption is an integral part of the livelihood and trade patterns of many peoples in the developing world, and highly valued by them. Yet to date the dominant models of wildlife management in areas of high – and allegedly unsustainable – consumptive use have favoured the exclusion of the users from the resource and the denial of its local values.

Hunter-gatherers, conservation and development: from prejudice to policy reform

LandLibrary Resource
Diciembre, 1998
Europa

Communities of present-day or former hunter-gatherers live in scattered communities across the world, although their precise numbers and status are very uncertain. Their often marginalised status and ethnolinguistic diversity has made it hard to articulate their case for land rights outside Australia and North America.