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Searching with a thematic focus on Structural adjustment policies, Agriculture and food, Aid and debt, Food and agriculture markets, Labour and employment

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  The benefits of growth for Indonesian workers

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  Does improving the conditions of workers in Indonesia require government interventions?Indonesia's rapid, broadly based pattern of growth has led to a spectacular reduction in poverty in the past 25 years.
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  Is Ethiopia's debt sustainable?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  The international development community has begun to recognize that options aimed at providing debt relief to countries where debt is not sustainable need to be seriously explored. When is debt not sustainable?
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  Adjustment and poverty in Mexican agriculture: how farmers' wealth affects supply response

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  By and large, it appears that the goals of agricultural reform are being met in Mexico.
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  The impact of commercialization on the role of labour in African pastoral societies

  Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1991

  As pastoral systems undergo commercialisation, all parts of those systems (livestock productivity, range use, household economies and the socio-cultural system itself) adjust to the new goals of production. This paper considers one of the elements in this adjustment, that of the changing role of labour.
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  Business development, social security or patronage? Zambia’s Agricultural Credit Management Programme.

  Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997

  The government that took power in Zambia in 1991 faced the challenge of fulfilling its promise to liberalise the economy while at the same time preventing any further increase in poverty and consolidating its hold on power. Part of its response was the launch, in 1994, of the Agricultural Credit Management Programme (ACMP).
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  Agricultural change under structural adjustment and other shocks in Zambia

  Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997

  The agricultural sectors of many economies in Sub-Saharan Africa have been profoundly affected by policy changes comprising part of the wider process of structural adjustment. Government controls on exchange rates, interest rates, farm inputs and crop output prices have been liberalized.
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  Economic objectives, public-sector deficits and macroeconomic stability in Zimbabwe

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997

  A fundamental macroeconomic problem in Zimbabwe is that the sum of public-sector projects is greater than the resources available to finance them.
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  Structure and conduct of major agricultural input and output markets and response to reforms by rural households in Madagascar

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 1998

  Interim reports on adjustment in the input trading sector; price behavior in local markets; and adjustment farm households have been published and are available online.
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  Peasant Cotton Cultivation and Marketing Behaviour in Tanzania since Liberalisation

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Discusses the debate around structural adjustment and African agriculture, the history of the Tanzanian cotton sector and farming systems in the main cotton growing area of the country before reporting the results of a small survey of cultivators carried out at the end of the 1997/8 seed cotton marketing season.
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  Failed Magic or Social Context?: Market Liberalization and the Rural Poor in Malawi

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1996

  One of the key questions in the debates swirling around structural adjustment programs in Africa is their effects on the poor. Have these programs "benefited ... the rural poor disproportionately", as concluded in Adjustment in Africa (World Bank 1994)? The answer for rural families studied over a period of years in Malawi is no.

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