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  Improving food security analysis and response: some brief reflections

  Feinstein International Center, USA, 2007

  This paper reflects on where the people termed a “community of practice” stand in the food security enterprise. That is, those people who have a common interest or problem, who collaborate to share ideas, find solutions and build innovations.
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  Sweet like chocolate?: making the coffee and cocoa trade work for biodiversity and livelihoods

  Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, 2003

  This paper studies the cases of cocoa and coffee to assess whether their systems of production and trade meet the needs and aspirations of poor rural populations in the developing world, and minimize environmental damage. Findings include:
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  Dampening the vulnerability to price shocks: a role for aid

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003

  This paper examines the effects of price shocks on developing countries, and discusses what kind of global measures may be implemented to avoid negative outcomes.
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  The profits of famine: Southern Africa's long decade of hunger

  Institute for Food and Development Policy, 2002

  This article explores the causes of famine and chronic malnutrition in Southern Africa.
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  Poverty and environmental degradation in the drylands: an overview of problems

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003

  This paper seeks to analyse some of the problems of degradation persisting in the dryland regions with particular reference to Sub-Saharan Africa, and describe the processes that aim to tackle them.It identifies the threat to dryland regions as a complex mixture of degrading soils, continuous exposures to frequent droughts and political and economic marginalisation which is putting poor people
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  Strengthening linkages between US trade policy and environmental capacity building

  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2003

  This paper examines US efforts to work with its trading partners in building their trade-related capacities for environmental protection and sustainable development.
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  Can the World Bank and IMF cancel 100% of poor country debts?

  Jubilee Research, 2003

  This report employs financial analysis to argue that both the IMF and the World Bank have enough resources to cancel all the HIPC debt, and argues that they could finance this debt cancellation without jeopardising their normal operations.
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  Real Progress Report on HIPC

  Jubilee Research, 2003

  This New Economics Foundation report is intended to shadow the official World Bank and IMF annual HIPC Status of Implementation Report, and states that it examines questions that the official HIPC reports do not, including:how much debt has actually been cancelled?are creditors really sharing the burden of debt relief under the HIPC initiative?is HIPC debt relief enough to a
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  Export credit agencies explained

  Export Credit Agencies International NGO Campaign, 2001

  This brief paper outlines the nature of export credit agencies (ECAs), how they impact development, the environment and human rights.The paper finds that ECAs (public agencies that provide government-backed loans, guarantees, credits and insurance to private corporations from their home country to do business abroad) often invest in developing countries They are one of the largest sources of p
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  Aid disaggregation, endogenous aid and the public sector in aid-recipient economies: evidence from Côte d’Ivoire

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2003

  A major problem with much of the existing literature on aid effectiveness is the neglect of the heterogeneous character of aid inflows. This paper attempts to address this gap by examining the impact of different aid types (project aid, programme aid, technical assistance and food aid) on the fiscal sector of the aid-recipient economy in Côte d’Ivoire, 1975–99.

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