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

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    Orthodox & heterodox policy for growth for Africa South of the Sahara

    Centre for Development Policy and Research, SOAS, 1998
    In no region of the developing world have neoliberal policy reforms been so unsuccessful in stimulating recovery as in Africa south of the Sahara. There is an urgent need for policy formation to move from ideological generalisations to pragmatism.
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    Economic policy for agriculture: a guide for FAO professionals

    Centre for Development Policy and Research, SOAS, 1999
    Manual on economic policy issues in the agricultural sector, aimed at helping non-economists to contribute to policy makingAims to: provide FAO professionals with the basic analytical principles of economic policy making for agriculture it does not seek to convert non-economists into economists, but rather to provide technical experts with a familiarity of the discourse of economic
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    The impact of the penetration of the market on rural women: the case of Mbozi Rural District Mbeya, Tanzania

    Institute of Development Studies, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1998
    Looks at the effects of structural adjustment reforms on women in Tanzania.Recommendations include:government subsidy of maize fertilisersadjustment to the system of granting loans to allow access to rural womeneducation of the rural population on procedures and conditions for getting loansexemption from payment for health services for womenprovision of an adequate suppl
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    Trade Liberalization in a Dynamic Setting: Implications of a New WTO Round

    Brookings Institution, 1999
    Explores the impacts of a new WTO Round of trade liberalization over the period from 2000 to 2010, using a model that allows for short run unemployment, adjustment costs in capital formation, international flows of financial assets and forward looking expectations of the announced policy changes.
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    Structural adjustment and agriculture in Guyana: From crisis to recovery

    Sectoral Activities Programme, ILO, 1999
    Documents the decline and rise of the Guyanese economy, with particular focus on the agricultural sector and its contribution to employment creation and poverty alleviation. The demarcation line between decline and recovery is put at 1988 because of the adoption that year of the Economic Reform Programme, although actual recovery only started in 1990.
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    International financial institutions reform: report of the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, March 2000

    International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, US Congress (Meltzer Commission), 2000
    Report recommends many far-reaching changes to improve the effectiveness, accountability, and transparency of the financial institutions and to eliminate overlapping responsibilitiesThe report looking at the future of seven key institutions: theInternational Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank Group, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank,
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    Education for All: a compact for Africa

    Oxfam, 1999
    Makes a case for increased/refocussed funding for primary education in Africa, for consideration at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal in April 2000.
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    Why liberalization alone has not improved agricultural productivity in Zambia: the role of asset ownership and working capital constraints

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
    In the early 1990s, Zambia initiated an ambitious program of liberalization that significantly opened the economy, shifting from a highly regulated and centralized to a more market-based and liberal economic paradigm.
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    Incomes and Poverty in Rural Zimbabwe During Adjustment: The Case of Shindi Ward, Chivi Communal Area

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1999
    As the 1990s have progressed, there have been increasing concerns expressed about the effects of the structural adjustment programme in Zimbabwe, both from within and outside the country.
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    The Political Economy of Policy Failure in Zambia

    Swedish Working Papers in Economics, 2000
    Zambia’s experience in the 1990s illustrates that, on their own, policy changes will not redress decades of mismanagement, especially when the degree of commitment of the elite remains unaltered.In 1991, the Movement for Multiparty Democracy won the elections on a reform platform, promising to reverse the economic decline and to introduce more inclusive politics.

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