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Drought and saving in West Africa: are livestock a buffer stock?
M. Fafchamps; C. Udry; K. Czukas / Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1996
Households in the west African semi-arid tropics, as in much of the developing world, face substantial risk (an inevitable consequence of engaging in rainfed agriculture in a drought-prone environment...
Enhancing the private sector contribution to post-war recovery in poor countries:part 1:comparative analysis
T. Bruck; V. FitzGerald; A. Grigsby / Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2000
Violent conflict has become more frequent in developing countries in the last two decades, and international support for peace making has become more important. Yet, post-war reconstruction in these c...
Income Distribution And Development
F. Stewart / Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2000
Income distribution is extremely important for development, since it influences the cohesion of society, determines the extent of poverty for any given average per capita income and the poverty-reduci...
The Manufactures Terms of Trade of Developing Countries with the United States, 1981-97
A. Maizels / Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2000
There is an ongoing debate on whether or not developing countries suffer a trend deterioration in their terms of trade in their exchange of manufactures with developed countries. In a contribution to...
Anti-poverty Policy: Screening for Eligibility Using Village-level Evidence
R. Saith; B. Harriss-White / Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2000
In the context of targeting of state transfers based on income poverty lines, this study is concerned with the identification of households that may have been wrongly included in the target group....
The financing and technology decisions of SMEs: Finance as a determinant of investment
A. Cobham / Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1999
Surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the financing of investment in order to lay the foundation for subsequent analysis of technology investments by Southern European SMEs. By adapting...
The Security of International Finance
V. FitzGerald / Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1999
Attempts to explain the origins of inherent instability in international capital flows, and why this requires public institutions to maintain an orderly market. In the second part, it is argued that d...
Paradigms of Development: Issues in Industrial Policy in India
I. Hirway / Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1998
Presents empirical evidence on the cement industry in Gujarat to support the argument that the state still has an important role to play in determining the development path of India. A detailed cas...
Technology Support for Small Industries in Developing Countries: From 'Supply-Push' to 'Eightfold-C'
H. Romijn / Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1998
Review of approaches towards technology support for small-scale manufacturing enterprises in developing countries since the 1970s. Early programmes tended to suffer from a number of weaknesses, emana...
The Muslim Identity and the Politics of Fundamentalism in Kashmir
R. Chowdhary / Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1998
Examines the role of religion in the formation and assertion of political identity in Kashmir. The issue has been highlighted by the rise of Islamic militancy in the 1990s. Four aspects are exa...

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