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    Poverty and inequality during structural adjustment in rural Tanzania

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    Growth attributed to structural adjustment has benefited the population generally, shifting a significant portion of the population from below the poverty line to above it.
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    Explaining Agricultural and Agrarian Policies in Developing Countries

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    What explains differences in agricultural and agrarian policies across countries and over time? Why do countries adopt, and maintain, policy regimes that reduce efficiency and increase rural poverty? What are the conditions for countries to initiate equity and efficiency enhancing policy reforms and for these reforms to be maintained? These are the questions pursued in this literature review.
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    Research on Land Markets in South Asia: What Have We Learned?

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    What have we learned about land markets in South Asia about land reform, land fragmentation, sharecropping, security of tenure, farm size, land rights, transaction costs, bargaining power, policy distortions, and market imperfections (including those associated with gender)?Faruqee and Carey review the literature on land markets in South Asia to clarify what's known and to highlight unresolved
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    Ghana's Labor Market (1987-92)

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    The rate of return to education in Ghana increases with higher education and work experience. The return for each additional year of schooling ranges from 4 to 6 percent, quite high for a Sub-Saharan African country.
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    The Role of Agricultural Education in Improving the Performance of Support Services for the Renewable Natural Resources Sector

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997
    Whilst recent research (mainly in sub-Saharan Africa) has indicated a number of successful innovations in agricultural education and training (AET), it has generally been unresponsive to changing patterns of demand for trainees, which are influenced by the changing roles of public and private sectors.
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    Checklists for integrating gender issues into project identification and design

    Gendernet, World Bank, 1999
    Checklists, developed within and outside the Bank, of important gender issues that staff can keep in mind when developing policies and programs in a given sector. Sectors include: agriculture, water and sanitation, health, credit, education
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    Swedish Development Cooperation with India - in a Poverty Reduction Perspective

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    The paper gives an overview of Sweden's development cooperation with India, viewed from a poverty reduction perspective. It is one of the products of a research project, entitled 'Comparative Study of European Aid for Poverty Reduction in India', carried out in 1997 by a group of four European and eleven Indian researchers.
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    Danish Development Cooperation with India - in a Poverty Reduction Perspective

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    The paper gives an overview of Denmark's official development cooperation with India, viewed from a poverty reduction perspective. It is one of the products of a research project, entitled 'Comparative Study of European Aid for Poverty Reduction in India', carried out in 1997 by a group of four European and eleven Indian researchers.
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    The socio-economic impact of HIV and AIDS on rural families in Uganda: an emphasis on youth

    HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 1994
    While youths are among the most vulnerable groups to HIV infection, they are also the most promising agents of behaviour change. Young men and women are vulnerable to HIV infection because they begin sexual activity at an increasingly younger age, tend to have multiple partners and have restricted access to information on safer sexual practices.
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    Local Government and Households in Primary Education in Tanzania: Some lessons for Reform

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    The roles of the formal and informal involvement of local governments, local elites, teachers and households in decision making about primary education in selected rural districts are analysed, as are some of the outcomes of this involvement. Lessons for reforms with respect to decentralization, financing and school choice are drawn.

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