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  Economic Reforms And Health Conditions Of The Urban Poor In Tanzania

  African Studies Quarterly, 1997

  This paper describes the impact of Economic Reforms on the health conditions of the urban poor in Tanzania. The main argument advanced is that Structural Adjustment Policies (SAPs) have exacerbated the declining condition of the urban areas rather than improved them.
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  Structural and Sectoral Adjustment World Bank Experience, 1980-92

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995

  Adjustment lending has been the subject of considerable scrutiny and debate. Six years ago, the Operations Evaluation Department (OED) published its first review of experience with this form of lending.
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  Social Dimensions of Adjustment:World Bank Experience, 1980-93

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995

  The principal message of this study is that good macroeconomic policies and measures—combined with relevant sectoral policies and appropriate public expenditure allocation—provide a favorable environment for accelerating savings and investment, both necessary for sustained economic growth and poverty reduction (Figure 1).
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  Ghana Country Assistance Review: A study in Development Effectiveness

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995

  Bank assistance was generally effective in helping Ghana make considerable economic progress over the past decade.
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  Employment, Labor Markets, and Poverty in Ghana: A Study of Changes during Economic Decline and Recovery

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997

  An awareness on the part of policymakers that the formal sector is only a small part of Ghana's labor market is a necessary precondition of appropriate employment policy.
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  Adjustment and Poverty in Asia: Old Solutions and New Problems

  Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1998

  Analyses how adjustment policies affected the poor in Asian economies, focussing on the period up to 1997. It shows that there was a significant reduction in both private income poverty and social income poverty over the previous thirty years.
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  Making Negotiated Land Reform Work: Initial Experience from Brazil, Colombia, and South Africa

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Can land reform have a lasting impact on poverty reduction?
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  Growth, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America: A Causal Analysis, 1970 - 94

  1999

  Uses data for the 1970-94 period for 12 Latin American countries to analyze the role of aggregate income growth on changes in urban and rural poverty and inequality. Shows that income growth is only effective in reducing poverty and inequality if the initial levels of inequality and poverty are not too high and if educational levels are sufficiently high.
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  Making Adjustment Work for the Poor

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  Many developing countries are engaged in structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) sponsored by the IMF and World Bank.
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  Rethinking the Causes of Deforestation: Lessons from Economic Models

  World Bank Research Observer, 1999

  Synthesizes the results of more than 140 economic models analyzing the causes of tropical deforestation. Raises significant doubts about many conventional hypotheses in the debate about deforestation. More roads, higher agricultural prices, lower wages, and a shortage of off-farm employment generally lead to more deforestation.

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