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  The Tyranny of Participation in Information Systems: Learning from Development Projects

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 1999

  It often seems that use of participative approaches in the development of information systems (IS) has reached the status of a new orthodoxy: a 'magic bullet' technique that is always relevant, always beneficial in trying to overcome the high failure rate of information systems. Yet participation is clearly not so magical in practice and is often beset by problems.
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  The first mile of connectivity: Advancing telecommunications for rural development through participatory communication

  Communication for Development (ComDev), FAO, 1999

  Series of short articles on problems of introducing information technologies (including internet) to the rural areas of developing countries.Emphasises the need to focus on people (not technologies), on what people can do with technology, and on training.
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  UNDP and Governance: Experiences and Lessons Learned

  Management & Governance Network, UNDP, 1998

  Traces the evolution of UNDP’s approach to governance and to summarise the key trends and programme activities which have been identified as elements necessary for the achievement of sustainable human development.
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  Agricultural extension: generic challenges and some ingredients for solutions

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  analyze the challenges facing policymakers who must decide what role governments should play in implementing or facilitating extension services.
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  Technology Transfer and Spillovers? Does Local Participation with Multinationals Matter?

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1998

  Examines the effects on technology transfer and spillovers deriving from ownership sharing of foreign multinational affiliates.Trys to answer two questions, using unpublished Indonesian micro data: do establishments with minority and majority ownership differ in terms of productivity levels?
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  Impact Assessment of the PULSE microfinance programme in Lusaka, Zambia

  Centre for Development Studies, Swansea, 1998

  PULSE is a group-based microfinance programme that provides savings and loan facilities to people living in low income compounds of Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. As one of the pioneers of microfinance in Zambia, high quality assessment of the impact of PULSE is particularly important.
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  Gender, informality and poverty: a global review of gender bias in female informal employment and incomes in developing countries

  Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing, 1998

  examines the evidence from countries on female informal employment and incomes. It traces the recent trends in female employment as well as its structure in developing countries using aggregate data. Women participation in the labor force has risen in most countries, which is also reflected in the changing sex composition of the total labor force. Women’s share in total labor force has risen.
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  The Reform of Rural Land Markets in Latin America and the Caribbean: Research, Theory, and Policy Implications

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991

  Summarizes recent research (to 1991) on rural land markets in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region and on the relationship between this research and broader land tenure issues.
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  Governance in Thailand: challenges, issues and prospects

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 1999

  Overview of the major governance issues currently confronting the Thai Government, with particular emphasis upon the issues likely to be of greatest interest to international donors such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
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  Designing by dialogue:A Program Planners’ Guide to Consultative Research for Improving Young Child Feeding

  Support for Analysis and Research in Africa, USAID, 1997

  Tools to design, carry out, and analyze the results of formative, consultative research and to use them to design effective programs to improve infant and young child feeding.

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