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  Fighting poverty through agriculture: Norwegian plan of action for agriculture in Norwegian development policy

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004

  Under this Norwegian strategy, development assistance for agricultural development will be scaled up considerably. The plan sets out 50 measures for promoting agricultural development in developing countries.It takes a holistic approach in which agricultural development is part of a broader strategy for private sector development that considers the entire production chain from field to table.
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  Information and communication technologies in education in the South: beyond futurological prophecies and critical dystopias

  Norwegian Network on ICT and Development, 2003

  Series of papers and presentations from a meeting held on 2-3 October 2003 at the Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies, University of Bergen.Papers include: Information and communication technology-appropriation in Ecuador: educative initiatives with disadvantaged groups by Patricia Bermudez ICT and multicultural practice by Katherine GoodnowUsing the Internet Cafe at Techniko
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  Fighting poverty together: a comprehensive development policy [White Paper on Norwegian development policy]

  Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway, 2004

  This white paper is the first report to the Storting on development policy to be submitted for eight years. The report takes the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as its starting point.
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  Ecological sanitation and reuse of wastewater

  EcoSan Norway, 2004

  Ecological sanitation, also called “eco-san”, is an alternative approach to conventional sanitation. Eco-san is structured on recycling principles and keeping the eco-cycle in the sanitation process closed. It is a holistic approach involving keeping human excreta out of water, containing and destroying pathogens, and recycling nutrients to agriculture.
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  Would including more source species enhance the cost-effectiveness of climate policy?

  Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2004

  Incorporating ozone precursors and particle emissions in future climate policy agreements could improve the level of cost-effectiveness, but would also add complexity and complications to negotiation, reporting and implementation. To assess the cost saving potential, a case study of Norway is carried out.
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  What’s in a word?: conflicting interpretations of vulnerability in climate change research

  Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2004

  This paper discusses two competing interpretations of vulnerability in the climate change literature and consider the implications for both research and policy: the “end point” approach: views vulnerability as a residual of climate change impacts minus adaptation.
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  Agricultural and human health impacts of climate policy in China: a general equilibrium analysis with special reference to Guangdong

  OECD Development Centre, 2003

  China’s climate policy over the coming decades will be crucial to efforts to slow global warming. While CO2 emissions growth slowed in the 1990s, it is too early to know if this represents the beginning of a long-term downward trend in the carbon intensity of China’s economy.
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  To pay or not to pay?: citizens’ views on taxation in local authorities in Tanzania

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004

  Widespread tax evasion reflected in persistent public resistance to pay is seen as part of the problem of raising local government revenues in Tanzania. Dealing with the policy problem of revenue enhancement and tax evasion requires some understanding of the factors underlying the individual’s decision whether to pay or evade taxes.
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  Housing mobilization in Calcutta: empowerment for the masses or awareness for the few?

  Norwegian Network for Asian Studies / Asianettverket, University of Oslo, 2004

  [No longer available online: published in Environment and Urbanization, 1 April 2004, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 129-137(9)]This paper describes the evolution of the Calcutta NGO Unnayan and the two related movements which it initiated and supported, Chhinnamul and the National Campaign for Housing Rights (NCHR).
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  Governance interventions in post-war situations: lessons learned

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004

  This paper addresses governance issues in post-war situations as these are dealt with in three sets of literature: the growing case-based knowledge arising from the experience in internationally-assisted transitions from war to peace since the early 1990s.insofar as these transitions typically intended to establish a democratic post-war order, important insights can be drawn from the

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