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    Adjustment and poverty in Mexican agriculture: how farmers' wealth affects supply response

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    By and large, it appears that the goals of agricultural reform are being met in Mexico.
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    Nontariff barriers Africa faces : what did the Uruguay Round accomplish, and what remains to be done?

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    African countries should generally benefit from the Uruguay Round liberalization of non tariff barriers, although some countries may suffer losses. The main danger could be failure to undertake the domestic reforms needed to take advantage of the more competitive trade environment.Perhaps the major accomplishment of the Uruguay Round is agreements reached on non tariff barriers (NTBs).
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    Structural Adjustment and the Health Care Sector in India: some policy issues in financing

    Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1997
    The paper examines different strategies for the financing of health care in India, where the effect of structural adjustment has been to undermine the traditional resource base. The relative merits of user fees, insurance schemes, administrative decentralisation and partial privatisation are discussed.
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    The determinants of the national position of Brazil on climate change : empirical reflections

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997
    International negotiations on the Framework Convention on Climate Change have been characterized by severe polarization between developed and developing countries. The G77, led by major countries such as Brazil, India, and China, illustrated a remarkable capacity to manifest its importance in the final text of the Convention.
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    Decentralization and macroeconomic management

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
    There is a vast and growing body of literature covering the potential efficiency and welfare gains from decentralization. The literature has also amply discussed the potential trade-offs between decentralization and income redistribution, as well as various mechanisms designed to attenuate these trade-offs.
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    The impact of commercialization on the role of labour in African pastoral societies

    Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1991
    As pastoral systems undergo commercialisation, all parts of those systems (livestock productivity, range use, household economies and the socio-cultural system itself) adjust to the new goals of production. This paper considers one of the elements in this adjustment, that of the changing role of labour.
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    Business development, social security or patronage? Zambia’s Agricultural Credit Management Programme.

    Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997
    The government that took power in Zambia in 1991 faced the challenge of fulfilling its promise to liberalise the economy while at the same time preventing any further increase in poverty and consolidating its hold on power. Part of its response was the launch, in 1994, of the Agricultural Credit Management Programme (ACMP).
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    Agricultural change under structural adjustment and other shocks in Zambia

    Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997
    The agricultural sectors of many economies in Sub-Saharan Africa have been profoundly affected by policy changes comprising part of the wider process of structural adjustment. Government controls on exchange rates, interest rates, farm inputs and crop output prices have been liberalized.
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    The Urban Labour Market During Structural Adjustment: Ethiopia 1990-1997

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998
    Paper examines the effects of reform and structural adjustment on the urban labour market in Ethiopia using a combination of cross-section and panel data based on surveys conducted both pre- and post- reform. During this period Ethiopia has seen impressive growth in GDP but little in the way of private investment.
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    Economic objectives, public-sector deficits and macroeconomic stability in Zimbabwe

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997
    A fundamental macroeconomic problem in Zimbabwe is that the sum of public-sector projects is greater than the resources available to finance them.

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