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  The benefits of growth for Indonesian workers

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  Does improving the conditions of workers in Indonesia require government interventions?Indonesia's rapid, broadly based pattern of growth has led to a spectacular reduction in poverty in the past 25 years.
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  Are stable agreements for sharing international river waters now possible?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Proposed here is a new scheme for allocating international river water that accounts for the stochastic nature of water supply and the dynamic nature of its demand.
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  FAO Plan of Action for Women in Development

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999
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  Targeting assistance to the poor and food insecure: a literature review

  The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 1995

  This report is a comprehensive review of the literature and summary of “targeting” programs that deliver food assistance to the poor and food insecure. It provides definitions, ra-tionales for targeting, analysis of benefits and costs (political and administrative) of various targeting mechanisms, and descriptions of targeting methods.
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  Estimated Mean per Capita Energy Requirements for Planning Emergency Food Aid Rations

  National Academies Press, 1995
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  Women's Work and the Household in Latin America. A discussion of the literature

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999

  The paper discusses the existing literature on women's work and the household in Latin America. This should be seen in the context of women increasingly entering the labour market in Latin America - as increasing interest among academics for exploring the complexities of the household. One can distinguish between three 'angles' taken by the studies.
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  The poor relation: a political economy of the marketing chain for dagaa in Tanzania

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997

  Dagaa is the collective name in Tanzania for various types of sardine-like fish eaten in a dried form by poor and middle-income groups throughout eastern and southern Africa. This paper is a fieldwork-based case-study of the ‘commodity chain’ for dagaa.
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  Of saviours and punks: the political economy of the Nile perch marketing chain in Tanzania

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997

  The paper is a fieldwork-based case study of the commodity chain for the Nile Perch fish from Lake Victoria, Tanzania. This fish first began apperaring in significant numbers in the lake in the early 1980s and within a few years a large artisanal fishery developed around it.
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  The UN's Role in Grant-financed Development: Is there a Funding Crisis?

  Overseas Development Institute, 1997

  This Briefing Paper describes the evolution of the UN's work in development, assesses its contribution to global assistance efforts, and explains how its main components have been financed in the past (and how financial support is changing).
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  Neglected Species, Livelihoods and Biodiversity in Difficult Areas: How should the Public Sector Respond?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997

  Recent research on neglected crop and animal species suggests that there exists an important gap between the priorities of development and research agencies and the way small farmers, both in Africa and elsewhere in the world, treat such species.

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