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Searching with a thematic focus on Structural adjustment policies, Agriculture and food, Aid and debt

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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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  Global Economic Prospects and the Developing Countries 1997

  Prospects for Development [World Bank], 1997

  This year’s Global Economic Prospects reviews the implications for developing countries of three important changes in the world economy that globalization is bringing about. First, five large developing and transition economies -- China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, and Russia -- are likely to emerge as key players in the world economy over the next quarter century.
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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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  Adjustment and Poverty in Asia: Old Solutions and New Problems

  Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1998

  Analyses how adjustment policies affected the poor in Asian economies, focussing on the period up to 1997. It shows that there was a significant reduction in both private income poverty and social income poverty over the previous thirty years.
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  What Explains the Success or Failure of Structural Adjustment Programs?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998

  A few political economy variables can successfully predict the outcome of an adjustment loan 75 percent of the time. To select promising candidates for adjustment, the World Bank must do a better job of understanding which environments are promising for reform and which are not.
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  Gender and Economic Adjustment in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Information Bank on African Development Studies, 1994
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  Public Environmental Expenditures: A Conceptual Framework

  Macroeconomics for Sustainable Development Programme Office, WWF, 1999

  Public spending on environmental protection is often a small fraction of total government budget in developing countries. Such spending is further reduced during the stabilization phase of macroeconomic adjustment. Increased environmental awareness calls for proper treatment of such spending, particularly during periods of financial difficulty.
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  Gender analyis: alternative paradigms

  Gender in Development Programme, UNDP, 1998

  Comparative analysis of alternative paradigms, or conceptual frameworks used for analyzing gender issues within the development context.
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  The Implications of Foreign Aid Fungibility for Development Assistance

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998

  To address the fungibility of foreign aid funds, a proposed new lending instrument—a public expenditure reform loan—would tie an institution's lending strategy to the recipient country's achieving mutually agreed-upon development goals.A foreign aid or foreign lending policy that focuses exclusively on project financing may have unintended consequences, report Devarajan and Swaroop.
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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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