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  Family Influences on Zimbabwean Women’ s Reproductive Decisions and their Participation in the Wider Society

  Family Health International, 1999

  Explores the roles of husbands and mothers-in-law in reproductive decision-making and women’s participation in development. It addresses the question of whether women and their families believe lower fertility should enable young mothers to engage in activity outside the domestic sphere.
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  Global farming systems study: challenges and priorities to 2030

  Rural Development Strategy Team, World Bank, 2001

  For more than a decade, the proportion of internationally supported public investment directed at agriculture and the rural sector in developing countries has been declining. Moreover, this is occuring at a time in which the process of globalisation is changing patters of trade and investment, placing agricultural producers and communities under tremendous pressure to adapt in order to survive.
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  Why biotech patents are patently absurd: scientific briefing on TRIPs and related issues

  Institute of Science in Society, UK, 2001

  This scientific briefing explains why the patenting of life-forms and living processes (as covered under Article 27.3(b) of TRIPs) should be revoked and banned.Concludes that all biotech patents should be rejected on the following grounds:all involve biological processes not under the direct control of the scientist.
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  Guidelines for developing improved risk assessment, prevention and management approaches in pastoral areas of Northwestern China

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2001

  This report presents an analytical framework for assessing the risks pastoral livestock keepers face in Nothwestern China.
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  Risks and the Impacts of Microenterprise Services (Dunn / Kalaitzandonakes / Valdivia / AIMS).

  microLINKS,, 1999
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  Household Economic Portfolios [review of approaches to analysis/modeling of the household as an economic portfolio, and relation to microenterprise development] (Chen / Dunn / AIMS)

  microLINKS,, 1999
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  Review of methodological approaches to the study of the impact of microenterprise credit programs (Gaile / Foster / AIMS)

  microLINKS,, 1999
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  Gender and urban social movements: women's community responses to restructuring and urban poverty

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 1996

  Urban poverty is increasing in the wake of neoliberal restructuring in both North and South, and much of the responsibility for providing basic welfare services is simultaneously being shifted from public to private hands.
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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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  Stimulating indigenous agribusiness development in the northern communal areas of Namibia : a concept paper

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1997

  This concept paper proposes (a) market driven farm and off-farm entrepreneurial options, that could take advantage of the existing opportunities, thus leading to the creation of indigenous oriented economic growth and (b) empowerment of the small and medium scale private enterprises to create an enabling environment conducive for equitable growth of their businesses.

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