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    Transient seasonal and chronic poverty of peasants : evidence from Rwanda

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997
    Using panel data from Rwanda, we estimate seasonal transient and chronic poverty indices,  for different poverty line, poverty indicators, equivalence scale, and with and without the corrections for price variability and for the sampling scheme. We also estimate sampling standard errors for the poverty indices. The worse poverty crises occur after the dry season at the end of the year.
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    Does "getting prices right" work? : micro evidence from Ghana

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995
    The question posed in this paper is whether structural adjustment programs have had the consequences policy intended and theory predicts. It uses evidence from a micro survey of manufacturing firms in Ghana to assess whether policy has effected an expansion of the exportable sector within manufacturing, the growth of small firms and an increase in exports and investment.
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    Short - term stabilization versus long - term price stability : evaluating Namibia's membership of the Common Monetary Area

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995
    It was found in this paper that (i) because of the high degree of openness of the Namibian economy and its small size, the use of nominal exchange rate as an instrument of adjustment will have limited effects; (ii) that the costs associated with the loss of monetary autonomy are small; and (iii) that there exists a wide range of instruments to address the effects of asymmetric shocks, irrespective
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    The Asian crisis and Human Development

    East Asia Crisis Workshop, IDS, 1988
    Paper aims to analyse the nature of pro-Human Development adjustment in the five countries seriously affected by the crisis: Thailand, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. The effects of the crisis on Human Development depend critically on macro-economic developments.
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    Policy Rules and Bidding Behaviour in the Ethiopian Foreign Exchange Auction

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998
    Ethiopia adopted a repeated Dutch auction for foreign exchange in May, 1993. Various African countries with rudimentary financial systems and thin foreign exchange markets have successfully employed auctions in transition from centralised, controlled systems to decentralised interbank markets. This paper characterises the rules, regime shifts and auction outcomes in Ethiopia.
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    Distilling the Lessons from the ESAF Reviews [IMF Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility]

    International Monetary Fund, 1998
    Paper begins with a brief summary of lessons for program design; the staff and Executive Directors are encouraged to view this as a checklist (Section II) of areas where programs need to be strengthened.
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    Poverty alleviation in Vietnam

    Micro Impacts of Macroeconomic and Adjustment Policies Programme, 1998
    Research project analysing the impacts of macroeconomic adjustment in the last few years in Vietnam on macroeconomic indicators and micro units – firm and household.WWW site has detailed results from the project and its surveys. Includes statistical indicators and poverty line data.
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    Making Negotiated Land Reform Work: Initial Experience from Brazil, Colombia, and South Africa

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    Can land reform have a lasting impact on poverty reduction?
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    Business services in the Globalizing African economies

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    Discusses the role of business services in the economy in general and especially in the low-income African economies. At the global level large transnational business service firms are developing global service networks linking the world’s large cities together and serving especially the large transnational companies, but apparently largely by-passing Africa.
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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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