Tariff preferences for the third world

third world intellectuals in v. s. naipaul’s fiction: the mimic men, a bend in the river, magic seeds

this thesis attempts to study the representations of the third-world intellectuals in three fictional works by the british-educated trinidadian nobel-winner v. s. naipaul: the mimic men, a bend in the river, and magic seeds. the first one recounts the story of ralph singh’s sense of alienation, his experiences as a colonial politician, and his struggle to give order to his disorderly world thro...

The Third World War?

Cures for the Third World ’ s problems

The sequencing of the human genome has been heralded as a major milestone in biological science that will, without doubt, provide fundamentally new ways of studying the human condition (Lander et al., 2001; Subramanian et al., 2001a; Venter et al., 2001). Yet, for a substantial portion of the world’s population, the human condition is defined by diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, cholera, ...

Nutrition research priorities for the Third World.

For many people, the juxtaposition of the words ‘research’ and ‘priorities’ produces the reaction that these are to some extent imcompatible notions unless defined in rather special and restricted ways. Successful research, it is said, is essentially an activity dependent upon the stimulation of individuals, exposed perhaps quite by chance, to the impact of experience; the outcome being to a la...

Did the World Bank Drive Tariff Reforms in Eastern Africa?

— This paper explores tariff reform in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda between the early 1990s and early 2000s. Tariffs were reformed in an across the board manner consistent with implementing World Bank programs: the average tariff was reduced and the dispersion of tariffs was compressed, with the highest tariffs being eliminated. There is limited evidence of political economy influences ...