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    Choices for the poor: lessons from national poverty strategies

    United Nations Development Programme, 2001
    This paper is the result of independent country evaluations commissioned by UNDP in order to assess the results and impact achieved by the Poverty Strategies Initiative (PSI) and assist in determining the nature and extent of absolute poverty. The purpose of the PSI evaluation was twofold.
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    Botswana's trade agreements

    Botswana Institute For Development Policy Analysis, 2000
    This briefing examines the recent changes in Botswana's external trading environment and the consequent challenges. It focusses on the different trading agreements relevant to Botswana and their implications.
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    Trade liberalisation and the clothing and textile industry in Malawi

    Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2001
    The paper provides an overview of the the textile and clothing industry in Malawi and explores the potential implications of three liberalisation agreements: the WTO agreement on clothing and textilesthe SADC trade protocol the COMESA Free Trade Area agreementConclusions include the following:As one of the least developed countries, the WTO agreement will eventually
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    Economic reform, growth and the poor: evidence from rural Ethiopia

    Department of Economics, University of Oxford, 2001
    Using micro-level panel data from villages in rural Ethiopia, this paper uses standard decompositions of income changes and develops a new decomposition of poverty changes to analyse the determinants of growth and poverty changes during a period of economic reform in Ethiopia (1989-95).
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    Asian Development Outlook 2001: publication highlights

    Asian Development Bank Institute, 2001
    The Asian Development Outlook (ADO) features:an assessment of economic trends and prospects for the world and for the developing economies of Asia and the Pacificeconomic profiles, economic management issues, development policy concerns and a forecast for the coming two years for 39 DMCs including newly independent East Timor (N.B.
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    African poverty at the millennium: causes, complexities, and challenges

    Documents and Reports, 2001
    Paper addresses the following questions:Who are the poor?What are the causes of poverty?Why have both states and markets failed the poor?Why do the poor have inadequate capital?How can we sustain improvements in social indicators?How are household and population dynamics changing?What are the roles for donors and governments in poverty reduction?Conclusio
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    An examination of public sector subsidies to the private health sector: a Zimbabwe case study

    EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2000
    A baseline qualitative study undertaken in Zimbabwe to examine and assess the impact of subsidies on health equity when provided as private sector support instrument by the government.
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    Gender aspects of urbanisation and natural resource management in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    Mazingira Institute, Kenya, 1997
    This paper examines the interactions between urbanisation, environmental management and gender, it asks the following questions:What opportunities and constraints do women and men experience in managing natural resources in an urban context?How do these meet or hinder their practical and strategic needs?
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    World Trade Organisation agreements: implications for equity and health in Southern Africa

    EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2000
    This paper investigates the consequences of WTO agreements relating to health, and primarily the TRIPS agreement on health care and drug access for Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries.The paper provides a brief review of GATT /WTO and WTO agreements relating to health.
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    Agricultural biotechnology research capacity in four developing countries

    International Service for National Agricultural Research, 1999
    Paper reports on ISNAR biotechnology research indicator survey of four national agricultural research systems (Mexico, Kenya, Indonesia, and Zimbabwe) aimed at providing an overview of their agricultural biotechnology research capacities.

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