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  Broadening the debate : the Tharaka participatory action research project

  Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1996

  Can we distinguish different types of indigenous knowledge? What are the main characteristics of such types? What is the meaning of sustainable development seen in this light? And how does this affect the research approach used? After a theoretical elaboration on different types of knowledge, this article presents a tentative answer to all these questions.
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  Water resources managment: IISD resource guide

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 1999

  List of important document (with abstract) and related WWW sites. Prepared by IISD Information Centre
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  Civil society: IISD resource guide

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 1998

  Bibilography of key paper resources concerning civil society and sustainable development accompanied by short abstracts. Also details of relevant WWW sites. Prepared by IISD Information Centre
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  Selected NGO reporting on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI)

  Corporate Watch, 1998

  Reporting from FOE, Focus, Third World Institute, Corporate Watch and others
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  Foreign investment in Latin America and the Caribbean 1997

  United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 1998

  Innovative analytic bridges are established linking the official data on foreign direct investment flows and related information at the sectoral and company levels found in the specialized press to the information collected directly by the Unit through company questionnaires and interviews.
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  Livelihoods and Security in Africa: Contending Perspectives in the New Global Order

  African Studies Quarterly, 1999

  The purpose of this article is not to make an exhaustive analysis of the security literature, but to indicate how principal theoretical perspectives today influence our thinking about peace and security in Africa.
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  The Geographic Scope of EC Aid: One or Several Development Policies?

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1997

  This paper describes the origins of the EC development cooperation and its general characteristics.
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  Rebuilding Support for International Cooperation: New Constituencies in a Global Village

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1997

  This paper provides a brief overview of changes in the international cooperation constistuencies that support the cooperation efforts of the European Union, its Member States, and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). The reasons for the changes and their impact are briefly discussed.
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  Taming the tigers: the IMF and the Asian crisis

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 1998

  Report begins by describing what actually happened in the three worst hit countries of Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea. It goes on to explore the human impact of the crisis. These chapters provide the material for a detailed analysis of the IMF’s role, and of the numerous failings in its performance to date.
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  Africa - Is This the Turning Point?

  Papers on Policy Analysis and Assessment, IMF, 1998

  There has been a distinct improvement in economic performance in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in recent years, resulting mainly from improved policies in many countries of the region. The basic question now is whether these developments are temporary or whether they augur a fundamental change in the economci fortunes of SSA.

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