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    Is there a commercial case for tropical timber certification?

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    Timber certification is not expected to provide significant commercial benefits to developing countries in the near future.
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    The evolution of central banking

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    What have we learned about central banks? The principal factors affecting central bank autonomy in the past two centuries have been prevailing political conditions, a laissez faire environment, and the exchange rate regime (whether fixed or floating).Institutions we know as central banks emerged or were established as commercial banks or government banks.
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    Rural finance for growth and poverty alleviation in Pakistan

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    To promote agricultural --- and hence economic --- growth, Pakistan must make more credit available to agricultural smallholders, the rural non farm sector, and women. Subsidizing interest rates is not the way to help marginal borrowers.
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    Roads, population pressures and deforestation in Thailand, 1976 - 1989

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
    Population pressures play less of a role in deforestation than earlier studies of Thailand found. Between 1976 and 1989, Thailand lost 28 percent ofits forest cover.
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    Indonesia's small and medium - size exporters and their support systems

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1994
    In Indonesia, public institutions generally lack the commitment, resources, and flexibility needed to provide quality support to small and medium size enterprises, and industry associations often lack the professionalism and accountability needed to gain their confidence.
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    What Drives Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon? Evidence from Satellite and Socioeconomic Data

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    Road network expansion is strongly associated with increased deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Pfaff analyzes the determinants of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.
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    Debt Relief for Low-Income Countries and the HIPC Initiative

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
    Since the onset of the debt crisis in the early 1980s, many heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs), continue to have difficulty in paying their external debt-service obligations, largely because of exogenous factors, imprudent debt-management policies, and the lack of sustained adjustment or implementation of structural reforms.
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    The Exchange Rate in a Dynamic-Optimizing Current Account Model with Nominal Rigidities: A Quantitative Investigation

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
    During the last 15 years, much effort was devoted to developing open-economy business cycle models with explicit microfoundations. With rare exceptions (discussed below), that literature considered models without money or in which money is neutral (or almost neutral), with prices and wages assumed fully flexible.
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    Declaration of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Summit of the Americas)

    Center for Hemispheric Policy, 1999
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    Fiji and the sugar protocol

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1997
    The [EU/ACP/Lome] sugar Protocol has contributed enormously to Fiji's social and economic development. By providing price stability and market access, it has helped sustain productivity improvements in the sugar industry and provided the main source of income for almost a quarter of the country's economically active population.

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