Trade liberalisation processes impact differently on men and women due to the fact that men and women have different roles in production. Despite the fact that women are actively involved in international trade, WTO agreements are gender blind and as such have adverse impacts on women. The General Agreement in Trade and Service (GATS), for instance, provides for a level playing field in service provision between big foreign owned companies and small locally owned companies.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchAugust, 2001Mozambique, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Mali, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Western Asia, Western Africa, Global, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, Southern Africa
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2001France, South Africa, Indonesia, Germany, Turkey, United States of America, Mexico, Australia
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2001Angola, Dominica, Burkina Faso, Bangladesh, Chile, China, Bulgaria, Bolivia, Cuba, Congo, Venezuela, Benin, Costa Rica, Colombia, Bahamas, Lesotho, Albania, Australia, Argentina, India, Senegal, Chad, Austria
Meeting symbol/code: COFO 1999 REP
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2001Kenya, Fiji, Guatemala, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Chile, Zimbabwe, Germany, Australia, United Kingdom, Madagascar, India, Namibia, Thailand
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2001Egypt, Nigeria, United States of America, Singapore, Vietnam, Somalia, France, China, Eritrea, Botswana, Haiti, Guinea, Malawi, Niger, Ethiopia
This publication is a set of practical guidelines and norms for field project engineers for the design and building of small hydraulic structures using earth and gabions. This publication would be useful in designing small earth dams with a gabion spillway, intake weirs for gravity irrigation schemes, groynes, river bed training works and for protection against hydraulic erosion.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2001Benin, Switzerland, Nepal, Zimbabwe, Guatemala, Indonesia, Bolivia, Canada, Venezuela, Namibia, Finland, Cameroon, Kenya, Uganda, Belize, Ecuador, India, Gabon, Ghana
Esta publicatión pretende servir como material de referencia en el campo de los inventarios de recursos de productos forestales no madereros (PFNM).
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2001United States of America, Japan, South Africa, Malaysia, Chile, China, Indonesia, Australia, Canada, India, Russia, Vietnam, Brazil, New Zealand
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2001Switzerland, Nepal, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Guatemala, Canada, Venezuela, Namibia, Finland, Cameroon, Kenya, Philippines, Uganda, Belize, Gabon, India, Mexico, Ghana
La dernière décennie a connu une augmentation considérable de l'intérêt et des activités concernant les produits forestiers non ligneux (PFNL). L'importance actuelle des PFNL pour les conservateurs, les forestiers, les acteurs du développement et les populations indigènes a suscité de nombreuses initiatives, ayant pour objectif de promouvoir l'utilisation et la commercialisation des PFNL, comme des moyens pour améliorer le bien-être des populations rurales et, en même temps, conserver les forêts existantes.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2001Japan, New Zealand, United States of America, Namibia
Meeting symbol/code: SLC2 2001 2
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2001Egypt, United States of America, Kenya, Chile, Burundi, Canada, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Comoros, Rwanda, Mauritius, South Africa, Uganda, Madagascar, Tanzania, India, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Africa
This working paper summarises the importance of forestry to Kenya’s economy and describes the effects of other sectors on its development. The current and predicted future status of the different arms of forestry in the country are presented.
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