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  The macroeconomic and financial implicatons of ageing populations

  Bank for International Settlements, 1998

  The purpose of this work is to distil the principal conclusions from the extensive factual and analytical material provided by national authorities and international organisations such as the OECD and the IMF.
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  Supporting Women's Use of Information Technologies for Sustainable Development

  Acacia Initiative, IDRC, 1997

  The central question of this study concerns African women's use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). This includes issues of access, the benefits African women experience and can expect to experience from ICTs, and the role they can and do play in the production and dissemination of information. The study is organised into three sections.
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  Democratisation Processes in Developing Countries and Options for Democratisation Assistance by Political Foundations

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1997

  Since the end of the 1980's, more and more donors have begun to promote democratisation processes by providing active support through so-called "positive measures." Positive measures can only be successful, however, if they are part of coherent and credible policies, i.e. if donors adhere to their principles even if their security and economic interests are at stake.
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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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  Study of GEF project lessons: summary report

  Global Environment Facility, 1998

  Report synthesizes lessons learned to date from projects financed during GEF's Pilot Phase. It was prepared primarily for the benefit of project and task managers of GEF projects. The Project Lessons study underscores that even well designed projects evolve continuously, and their managers need to be able to deal with a variety of technical, social and political issues at the same time.
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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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  Gender Issues in World Bank Lending

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995

  This report examines the evolution of Bank strategy to integrate gender issues in Bank lending across sectors since 1967, and the outcomes achieved so far. It reconstructs the evolution of Bank thought and actions in some depth through archives, published documents, and interviews.
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  The Aga Khan Rural Support Program: A Third Evaluation

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995

  AKRSP, in its thirteenth year of operation, continues to be an effective instrument to improve community productivity and family welfare in Pakistan's Northern Areas and Chitral. Improvements have resulted from the program's interventions in productive investments, in production-support investments, such as access roads, in training, and in financial and technical services.
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  National Agricultural Research Systems: Focus on Sustainability

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1999

  The Bank's lending experience shows three factors to be essential for preserving the research systems: borrower appreciation of the nature of agricultural research and of its role in economic growth, appropriate research planning and operational efficiency, and the relevance of research priorities.
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  Empowerment as an approach to poverty

  Global Reproductive Health Forum, 1999

  This paper seeks to clarify the role of empowerment in anti-poverty policies by addressing the following questions: what is empowerment and how does it relate to participation and botom-up approaches? why is empowerment a useful concept when addressing poverty? what are the potential and pitfalls of an approach based on empowerment?

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