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    Lessons from Uganda on strategies to fight poverty

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
    Paper draws lessons from the drafting of Uganda's PEAP, an early precursor to PRSPs. First, the PEAP plan made extensive use of existing data and research about Uganda to refocus a range of public policies and interventions relevant to poverty reduction.
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    Aid, conditionality and debt in Africa

    Department of Economics [Cornell University], 2000
    This paper presents a diagnosis of the current dysfunctionalities of the aid, conditionality and debt regime in Africa. It is argued that the key feature of the current system is that of aid dependence, which is characterized as an unhealthy process of interaction which afflicts donors and recipients alike.
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    A taste of success: examples of budget work of NGOs

    Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 2000
    This publication provides a flavour of the wide range of budget work being undertaken by NGOs and is divided into two general categories:Organizational development and trainingAnalyzing and affecting budget policies.The examples are drawn from groups in Croatia, India, Israel, Kenya, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, and Tanzania.
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    The role of civil society in assessing public sector performance in Ghana: proceedings of a workshop

    Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 2000
    This article, arises from conference discussions concerning the cooperation of government, public sector, civil society and international development agencies in Ghana.
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    Rural poverty report 2001

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2001
    This report explores means of reducing rural poverty. Rural poverty reduction is considered to be a central aspect of achieving poverty reduction more generally (rural areas of developing countries containing over three-quarters of the world's dollar-poor'). This aim was first agreed during the UN Social Summit in Copenhagen.
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    Biotechnology to benefit small-scale banana producers in Kenya

    Global Development Network, 2000
    This project was conceived in response to the rapid decline in banana production experienced over the last two decades, which was brought about by the infestation of Panama diseases, sigatoka, weevils/nematode complexes and environmental degradation. The situation threatened food security, employment and income in banana producing areas.
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    Technology and policy impacts on economic performance, nutrient flows and soil erosion at watershed level : the case of Ginchi

    Global Development Network, 2000
    A dynamic bio-economic model is used to examine natural resource use, in a poor country under a range of technological and policy intervention scenarios.With limited technological intervention over a twelve year planning period, per ha nutrient balances stand at –58kgs for nitrogen, -32kgs for phosphorous and –114kgs for potassium.
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    Poverty, growth and inequity in Nigeria: a case study

    African Economic Research Consortium, 2000
    This article explores a study into poverty in Nigeria.Resulting poverty profile:male-headed households contribute over 80% to the three measures of poverty and female-headed households contribute 5-16% (keeping in mind the small size of the female sample noted above) The contribution to poverty tends to be higher in the north than in the south; while the contribution to pove
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    Financial sector reforms and interest rate liberalization: the Kenya experience

    African Economic Research Consortium, 1998
    The study tracks down the financial liberalization process in Kenya and empirically tests for the interest rate determination in a liberalized market.
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    Population-development-environment in Namibia: background readings

    International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 2000
    This article outlines the role of the population-development-environment approach, which is designed to gain a deeper understanding of the population-development-environment-puzzle. It specifically focues on a PDE approach to Namibia.

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