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  From users to custodians: changing relations between people and the state in forest management in Tanzania

  World Bank, 2001

  This paper begins by discussing Tanzania's increasing recognition of the need to bring individuals, local groups, and communities into the policy, planning, and management process if woodlands are to remain productive in the coming decades.The article finds that:central control of forests takes management responsibility away from the communities most dependent on them, inevitably resul
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  Outflows of capital from China

  OECD Development Centre, 1997

  While the world has been mesmerised by China’s emergence as a major player in international trade, now being one of the world’s top ten traders, and also as an absorber of international capital (second only to the United States), China’s state-owned and other public sector enterprises have been quietly growing in importance as a source of international capital.
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  The Policy Challenges of Globalisation and Regionalisation

  OECD Development Centre, 1999

  Globalisation and regionalisation tend to be mutually reinforcing. Policies must ensure that this outcome prevails, for non-OECD and OECD countries alike. Globalisation can weaken social cohesion and States’ economic policy autonomy. Post-taylorist “flexible” forms of organisation now drive and shape globalisation.
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  Employment Creation and Development Strategy

  OECD Development Centre, 1993

  Developing countries will account for almost all the increase in the world's labour force over the next 25 years; most countries, especially in Africa, will experience very rapid labour force growth. Labour-intensive development has been spectacularly successful in some countries and others have begun to emulate them.
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  Towards Sustainable Development in Rural Africa

  OECD Development Centre, 1999

  A growing recognition of the need to delimit the role of the government, to promote the market framework, and to rely on the private sector as the engine of growth, offers the prospect of a new beginning in rural development in Africa.
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  Managing the environment in developing countries

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  Environmental policy should be inspired by the recognition that the environment is everyone’s business; all social actors must be involved in environmental management. Policies that implicitly subsidize a wasteful and environmentally destructive use of resources are pervasive: reforms should command a high priority on economic as well as environmental grounds.
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  Traditional forest-related knowledge and the Convention on Biological Diversity

  Convention on Biological Diversity, 1996
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  Non-governmental organizations and natural resource management in Africa : a literature review

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1993

  This report presents abstracts of 150 key publications drawn from recent literature (post 1982). The objective is to provide an overview of NGO activities in the field of natural resource management in Africa, and highlight those issues that are of critical importance to enhancing the institutional capacities of these organizations.
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  Namibia: encouraging sustainable smallholder agriculture

  Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1997

  Report recommends agriculture-sector poliy objective of risk reduction, production stability, and the diversification of agricultural and non-agricultural economic opportunities in the rural areas. The most fundamental problem remains, seven years after independence, the lack of a clear policy, administrative structures and legislation dealing with land allocation, tenure and management.
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  Malawi: Services and policies needed to support sustainable smallholder agriculture

  Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1997

  Malawi’ s smallholder agriculture is facing a crisis, particularly in the more populated south. There is an insidious combination of land shortage, continuous cultivation of maize, declining soil fertility, low yields, deforestation, poverty and high population growth rate.

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