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  The composition of aid and the fiscal sector in an aid-recipient economy: a model

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2003

  The ‘fiscal response’ literature models how the impact of aid is mediated by public sector behaviour, an issue which the paper argues has not been adequately addressed by the World Banks 1998 publication ‘Assessing Aid’. Furthermore, the paper argues, both the fiscal response literature and the World Bank publication have neglected the heterogenous nature of aid.
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  The strategic export initiative in Uganda

  PRSP Monitoring and Synthesis Project, 2003

  This study is based on the Strategic Export Initiative (STRATEX) in Uganda, which aims to promote increased export earnings, reduced aid dependency and reduced poverty (relating to exports in coffee, tea, livestock, fish, cotton, horticulture and Irish potatoes).
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  Ensuring food security via improvement in crop water productivity

  Challenge Program on Water and Food, 2003

  This first background paper from the CGIAR Water for Food Program seeks to identify research needs to increase crop water productivity, such that food security can be ensured and farmers’ livelihoods enhanced without increasing water diverted for agriculture.The paper proposes a number of priority topics for research on crop water management in the challenge Program on Water and Food, which wi
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  Young Lives preliminary country report: Peru

  Young Lives, 2003

  Young Lives: An International Study of Childhood Poverty aims at improving understanding of the causes and consequences of childhood poverty in the developing world, and at informing policy to reduce it.
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  Engineering nutrition: GM crops for global justice?

  Food Ethics Council, 2003

  This report challenges the dominant view of the scientific establishment that the future of agriculture lies with genetic modification technologies.
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  Aid disaggregation, endogenous aid and the public sector in aid-recipient economies: evidence from Côte d’Ivoire

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2003

  A major problem with much of the existing literature on aid effectiveness is the neglect of the heterogeneous character of aid inflows. This paper attempts to address this gap by examining the impact of different aid types (project aid, programme aid, technical assistance and food aid) on the fiscal sector of the aid-recipient economy in Côte d’Ivoire, 1975–99.
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  Child farm labor: the wealth paradox

  Economics department, University of Bristol, 2003

  This paper is motivated by the observation that children in land-rich households are often more likely to be in work than the children of land-poor households.The vast majority of working children in developing countries are in agricultural work, predominantly on farms operated by their families.
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  ICTs: transforming agricultural extension?

  Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, 2003

  This document reports on a workshop held by CTA on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for ACP agricultural and rural development.
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  Safety nets in transition economies: a primer

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper focuses on the experience of the transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia in providing adequate safety nets for the poor during the last 10 years.The paper discusses the problem of poverty and vulnerability: who were the poor? How did the answer to this question change over the decade?
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  Food aid and informal insurance

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2003

  This paper looks into the extent to which food aid helps to smooth consumption by reducing the impact of negative shocks, taking into account informal risk-sharing arrangements.The paper asks two questions:what determines the allocation rule of food aid in Ethiopia?

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