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How much poverty could HIPC reduce? CDPR Discussion Paper 2001 (2001)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Weeks, J., & Dagdeviren, H. (2001, August). How much poverty could HIPC reduce? CDPR Discussion Paper 2001. Paper presented at WIDER Development Conference: Debt Relief, Marina Congress Centre, Helsinki

This paper reviews the development of the HIPC Initiative, then considers how much poverty could be reduced through debt relief. Using a simple distribution function and measures of inequality, US one dollar a day poverty is estimated for the twenty-... Read More about How much poverty could HIPC reduce? CDPR Discussion Paper 2001.

Harnessing the potential of Migration and Return to Promote Development: Applying Concepts to West Africa (2001)
Preprint / Working Paper
Ammassari, S., & Black, R. Harnessing the potential of Migration and Return to Promote Development: Applying Concepts to West Africa. Geneva

This paper provides a state-of-the-art literature review and is intended to stimulate discussions around some of the most salient issues concerning the relationship between migration, return, and development. It outlines the operational framework and... Read More about Harnessing the potential of Migration and Return to Promote Development: Applying Concepts to West Africa.

From Congested Identities to Contested Identifications: The Shifting China-Burma Relations and Categorizations of Chinese Migrants in Burma, 1740-1940 (2001)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charney, M. W. (2001, July). From Congested Identities to Contested Identifications: The Shifting China-Burma Relations and Categorizations of Chinese Migrants in Burma, 1740-1940. Paper presented at International Symposium on “China and Southeast Asia: Historical Interactions, University of Hong Kong

Market Research Plan for Forest Fruits in Yucatán, México (2001)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Poole, N. (2001, July). Market Research Plan for Forest Fruits in Yucatán, México. Paper presented at Presentation to Indian research team, 'Enhancing the Role of Forest Fruits in Sustaining Livelihoods of Forest Margin Communities', DFID Forestry Research Programme R7349, Bangalore, India

Landscape Trauma in the Age of Scophilia (2001)
Exhibition / Performance
Hylton, R. (2001). Landscape Trauma in the Age of Scophilia. [Exhibition catalogue]. 4 July 2001 - 5 August 2001. (Unpublished)

Defining the Nation: Kurdish Historiography in Turkey in the 1990s (2001)
Journal Article
Hirschler, K. (2001). Defining the Nation: Kurdish Historiography in Turkey in the 1990s. Middle Eastern Studies, 37(3), 145-66. https://doi.org/10.1080/714004406

This article examines Kurdish historiography in Turkey in the 1990s. It centres on the question how the national community is historicised via central myths, especially for the pre-Islamic periods. As a source basis writings of members of the intelle... Read More about Defining the Nation: Kurdish Historiography in Turkey in the 1990s.

Demand uncertainty and the capital–labour ratio in Poland (2001)
Journal Article
Green, C. J., Lensink, R., & Murinde, V. (2001). Demand uncertainty and the capital–labour ratio in Poland. Emerging Markets Review, 2(2), 184-197. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1566-0141%2801%2900016-4

This paper investigates the effect of demand uncertainty on the capital–labour ratio of non-financial firms in Poland. An eclectic model is used to characterise a utility maximising firm in a transition economy with demand uncertainty and imperfect c... Read More about Demand uncertainty and the capital–labour ratio in Poland.

The limits to transnationalism: Bosnian and Eritrean refugees in Europe as emerging transnational communities (2001)
Journal Article
Al-Ali, N., Black, R., & Koser, K. (2001). The limits to transnationalism: Bosnian and Eritrean refugees in Europe as emerging transnational communities. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 24(4), 578-600. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870120049798

This article explores limitations on the concept of transnationalism, through examination of two empirical case studies of communities characterized by emerging transnational practices. Mirroring recent shifts of attention in studies of transnational... Read More about The limits to transnationalism: Bosnian and Eritrean refugees in Europe as emerging transnational communities.