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Building the Capacity for Development
Communities are facing new and more powerful challenges to their survival. Globalization threatens the economic base of many of them. International markets create new competition among localities for capital investments and generate pressures to lower labor costs. Globalization also makes it more diffi cult for communities to plan for the future because of the mobility of capital and labor. In ...
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عنوان ژورنال: New South Wales Public Health Bulletin
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1034-7674
DOI: 10.1071/nb00012