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  Post-war debt, reconstruction and poverty alleviation in Mozambique

  WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001

  This paper integrates micro- and macro-economic perspectives of post-war reconstruction in Mozambique and suggests policy recommendations for other war-affected highly indebted poor countries.Paper shows how peasant household production and coping choices in northern Mozambique were war-constrained for many years after the end of fighting.
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  Debt relief and civil war

  WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001

  This paper presents a model of civil war between a government and rebel side.The government side maximises the probability weighted expected utility from the states of war and peace. In a peaceful state a transfer is made to the rebels. The government is characterised by two groups, a war party and a peace party.
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  From humanitarian assistance to poverty reduction in Angola

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001

  Paper discusses how to focus public policy on poverty reduction, both during wartime and in peace (if it can be achieved). It begins by summarising the scale of unmet human need in Angola, the characteristics of poverty, and the determinants of the country's very high level of income inequality.
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  Refugees (OneWorld guide)

  OneWorld.net, 1999
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  Growth, employment and redistribution: a macroeconomic strategy (South African Government policy document)

  African National Congress, 1999

  A strategy for rebuilding and restructuring the economy is set out in this document, in keeping with the goals set in the Reconstruction and Development Programme.
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  NGDO Charter: Basic Principles of Development and Humanitarian Aid NGOs in the European Union (NGDO-EU)

  TRIALOG, 1999
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  The dynamics of poverty : why some people escape from poverty and others don't : an African case study

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  In urban areas of Cote d'Ivoire, human capital is the endowment that best explains welfare changes over time. In rural areas, physical capital especially the amount of land and farm equipment owned matters most.Empirical investigations of poverty in developing countries tend to focus on the incidence of poverty at a particular point in time.
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  Deindustrialization: Causes and Implications

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997

  Increased globalization (the international integration of markets for goods, factors, and technology) has coincided in the past two decades with a shift in labor demand away from less-skilled workers toward those with more skills.
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  Tibetan Women Oppression and Discrimination in occupied Tibet

  Office of Tibet, Government of Tibet in Exile, 1999

  Report highlights the particular concerns of Tibetan women inside Tibet and those living as refugees in exile. This report also ncludes a list of recommendations which, it is hoped, will serve as inputs to thediscussions for the Draft Platform.
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  The impact of minimum wage legislation in developing countries where coverage is incomplete

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998

  Examines the impact of minimum wage legislation in developing countries where coverage is incomplete.  Using a rich data set from Ghana, it estimates the extent to which a binding minimum wage alters employment in both the formal and informal sectors of the labor market.  The data reveal that Ghana's minimum wage policies during the 1970s and 1980s led to a reduction of formal sector jobs and an i

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