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Item 10 benefits of the WTO trading system(World Trade Organization, 2000)Item 10 common misunderstandings about the WTO(World Trade Organization, 2000)Item 2015 South Asia Data Pocket Book(Unicef, 2015)Item Abstracts: Facing human disasters future challenges(2005) Fernando, manjulaSri Lanka has a very energetic and vibrant media culture, constantly watching for the slightest development in the local political social economics and cultural arena. It plays a pivotal role and carries a lot of weight in shaping public opinion.Item Access to commission documents : users' guide(European commission, 1994)Item Achieving suitable export quality in processed food products(1992) Gatchalian, Miflora M.Item Adaptation to changing trade patterns in the global trading system(Lynne Rienner, 1989) Stern, Robert MItem ADB and Sri Lanka partners in development(2000-06)The Asian development Bank is a multilateral development finance institution dedicated to reducing poverty in Asia and the Pacific. Established by 31 countries in 1966 ADB is now owned by 58 members mostly from the regionItem The adding up problem(1989-03) Balassa, BelaThe "Adding Up Problem", or the "Fallacy of Composition", has been with us for sometime. In presenting the favorable economic results of countries following outward-oriented policies, or advocating the adoption of such policies in other countries, one often encounters the objection:"But what would happen if everyone did the same?"The implicit, or explicit, contention is that there would not be enough markets, or that protectionist reactions would be triggered in the developed world, as a result of the onslaught of exports by the developing countries.Item Adopting a cost-based pricing for international connectivity by Sri Lanka Telecom for international circuits.(1997-01-15)At present the only digital cable connecting Sri Lanka to the rest of the world is the SE-ME-WE 2 fiber-optic undersea cable. In order to provide quality internet services to Sri Lankan users, the local internet service providers (ISPS) have to use this cable for international connectivity.Item Advertising a signal(1984) Kihlstrom, Richard E; Riordan, Michael HItem Advertising and economic welfare(1985-03) Nichols, Len MItem Advertising as information(2023) Nelson, PhillipThis paper tries to show how the major features of the behavior of advertising can be explained by advertising's information function. For search qualities advertising provides direct information about the characteristics of a brand. For experience qualities the most important information conveyed by advertising is simply that the brand advertises. This contrast in advertising by these qualities leads to significant differences in its behaviorItem After the copenhacen summit taking social development seriously(1996-09-18) Jayasuriya, LaksiriIt is just over an year since the world summit for social development (WSSD) met in Copenhagen to discuss the seriousness of the development crisis- a crisis marked by the persistence of : The growth of poverty globally and the internationalism and social exclusion of groups of people the young the unemployed women and the ethnic minorities and the social conflicts and civil wars leading to increased militarisation and warfare.Item After the decision: Implementing policy reforms in developing countries(1990) Thomas, W. John; Grindle, Merilee SImplicit in many reform proposals is a model of the policy process that is roughly linear : a proposed reform gets on the agenda for government action, a decision is made on the proposal, and the new policy or institutional arrangement is implemented, either successfully or unsuccessfully.Item Aggregate supply and demand analysis since keynes: A partial history(1993-08) King, JohnItem Aggregate supply, Aggregate demand and macroeconomic adjustments with fixed prices(1990-02-14) Pandit, V. DrItem Agrarian development family farms and sugar capital in colonial Taiwan 1895-1945(2022-02-23) Ka, Chih-mingThis article analyses the conservation and restructuring of the Taiwanese family farms in the course of capitalist and colonial incorporation of Japanese private capital at the outset of colonial rule a congruence of interest between indigenous peasant producers and the colonial state resulted in policies that fostered the survival of family farms.These family farms constituted a formidable obstacle to the expansion of a labour-hiring capitalist agriculture.Under such conditions Japanese capital pursued vertial concentration resting on a highly productive family farming agriculture.Item Agrarian Entrepreneurialism In Bangaladesh(2022-02-25) D.Wood, GeoffreyUnder the fragmented landholding conditions of Bangladesh peasant agriculture, will the increasing capitalisation of agriculture transform the units of production away from the family based farm in to a system to vertically and horizontally integrated "agricultural companies"?. This suggests a particular interaction in which organization of production is disarticulated and re-articulated in a manner which reduces the significance of landholding in the realisation of agricultural surplusrealisation is silting towards investing in productivity and agricultural services away from rent and usury extraction in response to the intrusion of capital and assault on state momopolies on the one hand and to demographic pressures to use land more intensively on the other. The puper then asks:how far expansion of agriculture services activities takes the loam of interlocked markets in which the control over the productivity/ parasatic options for land use shifts from poorly networked owners towards a new entrepreneunal class of well-connected dealers and contractors.The related policy issue is whether the poor can be assisted to enter these new markets