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  Climbing a Moving Mountain: Explaining the Decline in Income Inequality in Brazil from 1976 to 1996

  1998

  Brazilian income inequality fell between 1976 and 1996. The Theil index declined from 0.86 to 0.69, and the Gini coefficient also fell, although by less.
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  Global Trade expansion and liberalisation: gender issues and impacts

  BRIDGE, 1998

  A major challenge for development policy aimed at reducing poverty is to enable a more equitable distribution of the gains associated with trade expansion and liberalisation. This requires a better understanding of why some countries and social groups are able to benefit more than others from increasing trade flows.
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  Gender and Law: Eastern Africa Speaks

  Africa Region Findings, World Bank, 1998

  Gender issues, particularly with respect to women's status and rights, have for a considerable period, been in the forefront of donors' dialogue on social issues with Africa. While African countries have fully acknowledged the seriousness of the issues and the urgent need for action, the dialogue has been largely donor-driven and issues and priorities have been donor-set.
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  What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?

  Harvard Business Review, 1999

  The rise of the computer and the increasing importance of intellectual assets have compelled executives to examine the knowledge underlying their businesses and how it is used. Because knowledge management as a conscious practice is so young, however, executives have lacked models to use as guides.
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  Water Challenge and Institutional Response: A Cross-Country Perspective

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Concerns in the water sector, which once revolved around water development (and quantity), now revolve around water allocation (and quality).
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  The Perestroika of Aid?: New Perspectives on conditionality

  Christian Aid, 1999

  Reviews policy arguements on conditionality and recommends and NGO standpoint. Discussed in the context of the Wolfenson/World Bank Comprehensive Development Framework.Argues that NGOs' engagement in the conditionality debate has largely focused on concerns about donors' policy prescriptions and advocating alternatives.
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  Water and sanitation think tank

  OneWorld.net, 1999

  WWW site and discussion forum, focusing on the demand responsive approach (DRA) to service provision. Includes archive of DRA discussion list and series of background papers
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  Differences between farmers and scientists in the perception of soil erosion: a South African case study

  Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1998

  Over the years agricultural scientists and extension agents have asked themselves why farmers do not take steps to control soil erosion, especially where such measures would appear to be cost-effective.
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  A Social Network Approach to Analyzing Research Systems: A Study of Kenya, Ghana, and Kerala, India

  International Service for National Agricultural Research, 1997

  Describes a social network approach to analyzing science and technology systems, taking into account the primary sectors involved in agriculture and natural resource management. It outlines a methodology for producing an inventory of the set of relationships that actually occur rather than purely formal, “on paper” linkages, which may or may not be operational.
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  Participatory local governance

  Management & Governance Network, UNDP, 1998

  Analyses the method and experience of the UNDP Local Initiative Facility for Urban Environment (LIFE) from September 1992 to May 1997. It reviews the LIFE process as a facilitator of participatory local governance through “local-local” dialogue—the participatory method at the heart of the process.

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