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  On the economic consequences of civil war

  The Economics of Crime and Violence, World Bank, 1998

  This paper offer a model of the economic effects of civil war and the post-war period. A key feature is the adjustment of the capital stock through capital flight. Post-war this flight can either be reversed or continue, depending partly upon how far the capital stock has adjusted to the war.The model is tested on data for all civil wars since 1960.
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  Basic service for all?: public spending and the social dimensions of poverty

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2000

  The report draws on case studies from over 30 developing countries to highlight the human cost of this shortfall in terms of lives lost, children out of school, the millions of children under-nourished and the billions without safe water and sanitation.The report outlines a Ten Point Agenda for Action to bridge the US$80 billion gap, including a call for an international agreement that no more
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  The World Bank and IMF initiate a new reform package

  Participation & Civic Engagement Group, World Bank, 2000

  The article critically examines the World Bank's and IMF's new approach to poverty alleviation and debt relief, as it is to be carried out via the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) and the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF).
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  Labor market reforms and their effect on formal labor demand and job market turnover: the case of Peru

  Grupo de Analisis para el Desarrollo, Peru, 2000

  Analyses the effects of several aspects of labor legislation that were modified through successive waves of reform since 1991.Primary effects of reform were that firing costs diminished sharply through the progressive elimination of job security regulations, the introduction of temporary contracts and changes in the severance payment structure.
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  SAPRIN challenges World Bank on failure of adjustment programs

  Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network, 2000

  This article emphasises the extent to which poverty, inequality and human suffering have increased in countries implementing the adjustment programs, that the international financial institutions (IFIs) had required as a condition for continued access to foreign capital.Conclusions:Designed to open and restructure economies on behalf of international investors, adjustment program
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  External shocks, financial crises, and poverty in developing countries

  World Bank, 2000

  This chapter ('External Shocks, Financial Crises and Poverty in Developing Countries'), of the World Bank report on 'Global Economic Prospects and Developing Countries':Reviews evidence about the impact on poverty of the external shocks and volatility to which developing countries are exposedPresents and assesses evidence of the impact of the 1997-98 financial crisis on poverty, in the
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  Agricultural policy in Africa after adjustment

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 2000

  This study looks at agricultural policy in Africa since structural adjustment, with the aim of drawing conclusions about policies for the post-adjustment era.The study suggests that while some of the changes brought about under agricultural structural adjustment go too far, in many other respects they do not go far enough.
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  The effect of IMF and World Bank programs on poverty

  Economic Growth Project, World Bank, 2000

  Paper suggests there is no evidence for a direct effect of structural adjustment on growth. The poor benefit less from output expansion in countries with many adjustment loans than in countries with few adjustment loans. By the same token, the poor suffer less from an output contraction in countries with many adjustment loans than in countries with few adjustment loans.Why would this be?
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  World employment report 2001: life at work in the information economy

  International Labour Organization, 2001

  The World Employment Report 2001 examines the impact of the new information and communication technologies on life at work at a time when the global employment situation still remains of considerable concern.
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  Economic policy, distribution and poverty: the nature of disagreements

  Department of Economics [Cornell University], 2001

  This article explores the disagreements which surround debates on poverty. It discusses the gulf between how officials and NGOs understand poverty.

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