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  Public Works in South Africa: Government Green Paper

  African National Congress, 1999
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  Situation and prospects for forest conservation and development: FAO State of the World's Forests 1997: Part 1

  State of the World's Forests, FAO, 1999
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  Implementing a New Indicator of Social Development in Mexico: Literate Life Expectancy (LLE) (Medina / IIASA)

  International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 1999

  For scientists, measuring social development has been a long-lasting objective; for the public, it has been a partially-resolved demand. Social indicators have been used informally for a very long time, particularly in economics, to assess the state of the nation and progress towards national objectives.
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  Agricultural and rural development policy in Latin America: new directions and new challenges (de Janvry / Sadoulet / Key)

  Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Berkeley, 1999
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  Analytical tools for human development [the conceptual basis for UNDP Human Development Index / development indicators]

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1999

  This paper briefly presents the analytical tools developed in the Human Development Reports since their inception in 1990 and describes their potential uses in national settings. Includes descriptions of the Human Development Index (HDI), Human Poverty Index (HPI), Gender-related Development Index (GDI) and Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM).
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  Does more for the poor mean less for the poor? : the politics of tagging

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Attempts to achieve "more for the poor" through the use of indicator targeting may in fact mean less for the poor. The efficient use of a fixed budget for poverty reduction may require targeting. However, the use of indicator targeting, using fixed characteristics that are correlated with poverty to determine the distribution of expenditures, will tend to reduce the budget.
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  Governance and the returns to investment : an empirical investigation

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  There is a strong statistical link between a country's civil liberties and the performance of its aid financed government investment projects.
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  Nations, conglomerates, and empires : the tradeoff between income and sovereignty

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  Why after the break-up of such multinational states as the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia, whose republics justified their decision by claiming that they wanted to regain their sovereignty, did the new states express strong desire to join the European Union, thus dissipating the very sovereignty they had sought?One of the apparent inconsistencies in the break-up of such multinatio
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  Do labor market regulations affect labor earnings in Ecuador?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997

  Although Ecuador may have the most cumbersome labor market regulations in Latin America, these are not a major source of segmentation of the labor market. The reason: the benefits mandated are fully fungible with wages. Ecuadorian labor costs are said to be high because of a large array of mandated benefits.
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  Research on Land Markets in South Asia: What Have We Learned?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  What have we learned about land markets in South Asia about land reform, land fragmentation, sharecropping, security of tenure, farm size, land rights, transaction costs, bargaining power, policy distortions, and market imperfections (including those associated with gender)?Faruqee and Carey review the literature on land markets in South Asia to clarify what's known and to highlight unresolved

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