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    Comparative study of the impacts of donor-initiated programmes on research capacity in the south

    Demanding Innovation: articulating policies for demand-led research and research capacity building in the South [seminar], 2001
    This paper examines Multi-annual, Multidisciplinary Research Programmes (MMRPs) instigated by the Netherlands in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The MMRPs were developed in response to a perceived need for a shift in the key responsibilities in donor funded research (eg in agenda and priority setting,the conduct of the research and financial accounting) from the North to the South.
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    People and protected areas in India

    Unasylva, FAO, 1999
    The author critically examines recent participatory ecodevelopment approaches to the management of Protected Areas in India.
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    Alleviating poverty: role of good governance and constitutional reform

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2000
    This article explores the role that good governance and constitutional reform might play in poverty alleviation in India.Policy recommendations:There is a need for the state to move out of many areas, which it has previously occupied.
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    Going to scale with education reform: India's district primary education program, 1995 - 1999

    Global Education Reform [World Bank], 2001
    This article discusses the sucess of a federally launched initiative within the education system in India (District Primary Education Program (DPEP)). It seeks to understand how this success has been achieved.The author points to seven specific aspects of DPEP's design and implementation that have been behind this success:strong focus on student learing.
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    Towards a relationship of significance: lessons from a decade of collaboration between government and NGOs in Rajasthan, India.

    Agricultural Research and Extension Network, 1999
    This paper explores how government and NGOs converge on a number of development objectives that have become social and political imperatives, divide roles along expected lines and prevailing notions of each other’s capacities, but still end up with problems in certain areas.
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    The health effects of air pollution in Delhi, India

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
    Particulate air pollution has less overall impact on nontraumatic deaths in Delhi, India, than in U.S. cities. But the deaths occur earlier in life in Delhi, which could mean a larger loss in life-years. Cropper, Simon, Alberini, and Sharma report the results of a time-series study of the impact of particulate air pollution on daily mortality in Delhi.
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    The progress of policy reform and variations in performance at the sub-national level in India

    Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1999
    The reform process in India has so far mainly concentrated at the central level. India has yet to free up its state governments sufficiently so that they can add much greater dynamism to the reforms.

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