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  Growth, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America: A Causal Analysis, 1970 - 94

  1999

  Uses data for the 1970-94 period for 12 Latin American countries to analyze the role of aggregate income growth on changes in urban and rural poverty and inequality. Shows that income growth is only effective in reducing poverty and inequality if the initial levels of inequality and poverty are not too high and if educational levels are sufficiently high.
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  The continuing Asian financial crisis: global adjustment and trade

  Institute for International Economics, USA, 1999

  Uses a multi-region computable general equilibrium model to analyze the impact of the Asian crisis thus far, highlighting the implications of possible future developments in Japan and China. The main conclusion is that depreciation of the yen would tend to have an adverse impact on the rest of Asia, even if Japanese growth were to be restored.
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  Conditioning Debt Relief on Adjustment: Creating the Conditions for More Indebtedness

  Development Group for Alternative Policies, 1999

  Argues that there is a positive linear relationship between the number of years that countries implement adjustment programs and increases in debt levels.
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  Business services in the Globalizing African economies

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Discusses the role of business services in the economy in general and especially in the low-income African economies. At the global level large transnational business service firms are developing global service networks linking the world’s large cities together and serving especially the large transnational companies, but apparently largely by-passing Africa.
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  King Cotton under Sovereignty: The Private Marketing Chain for Cotton in Western Tanzania, 1997/98

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Examines the emergence of a private sector marketing chain for cotton in Tanzania in the period 1994/95-1997/98, based on field work conducted between June and September 1997.
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  Limping towards a Ditch without a Crutch: The Brave New World of Tanzanian Cotton Marketing Cooperatives.

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Describes developments in cotton marketing cooperatives in Tanzania’s major cotton growing area between 1991 and 1997. During this period cooperatives underwent voluntarisation, lost state and donor financial support and (from 1995) had to face strong competition from private cotton buyers/ginners.
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  Conflict, Development and the Lomé Convention

  Development Studies Association, UK and Ireland, 1999

  Examines the idea of conflict prevention as a new theme in development theory. It analyses conflict and development in a variety of aspects and raises the question of whether international conflict prevention is merely a new fashion in development theory.
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  Making Adjustment Work for the Poor

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  Many developing countries are engaged in structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) sponsored by the IMF and World Bank.
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  The global economic impacts of trade and financial reform in China

  Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australia, 1998

  Despite the setbacks from the recent Asian currency crisis, the ascendancy of Asia as an economic centre of world economic activity is likely to continue into the 21st century. A key issue that will shape the role of Asia, and indeed the shape of the world economy in the 21st century, is the economic development of China.
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  Rethinking the Causes of Deforestation: Lessons from Economic Models

  World Bank Research Observer, 1999

  Synthesizes the results of more than 140 economic models analyzing the causes of tropical deforestation. Raises significant doubts about many conventional hypotheses in the debate about deforestation. More roads, higher agricultural prices, lower wages, and a shortage of off-farm employment generally lead to more deforestation.

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