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    Case Study of the Women's Health Care Foundation, Quezon City, Philippines

    Family Health International, 1997
    The Women's Health Care Foundation seeks to expand women's health care services "beyond the womb." Established in 1980, the Foundation works to meet the diverse health needs of Philippine women throughout their life cycle, broadening services beyond the traditional maternal-child health programs to include services for adolescents and postmenopausal women; counseling on sexually transmitted disea
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    The New 'Knowers' of West Africa. Muslims, Education and Social Change. A commentated bibliography.

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    Bibliography presents summaries of and comments on eight different texts, each providing important contributions to the subject of Muslims, education and social change in West Africa.
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    Ethical Trading Initiatives and Forest Dependent People

    Ethical Trade and Natural Resources Programme, NRI, 1998
    Discusses some of the schemes that promote environmentally sustainable trade in forest products and highlights some concerns about their impact on forest dependent people. The trading chains of many forest products, particularly non-timber forest products, are highly complex and people are involved in the marketing of these products in a variety of ways.
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    Forests, famine and war: the key to Cambodia's future

    Global Witness, 1995
    Global Witness' first report, which reveals the architects and beneficiaries of Cambodia's timber trade, including the Royal Government of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge, and which shows that these two groups, who at the time were at war, often work in tandem
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    Status report on participatory rural development in Pakistan's Punjab (FAO)

    People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions, 1999
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    Agriculture and the policy environment: Zambia and Zimbabwe: political dreams and policy nightmares

    OECD Development Centre, 1992
    The paper examines the effect of differing policies in the post-independence period on the agricultural and overall economic performance of Zambia and Zimbabwe. It focuses on the interaction between macroeconomic and agricultural policy reforms. It shows that macro and micro reforms need to be closely linked and that both are critical to sectoral performance.
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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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    The poor relation: a political economy of the marketing chain for dagaa in Tanzania

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997
    Dagaa is the collective name in Tanzania for various types of sardine-like fish eaten in a dried form by poor and middle-income groups throughout eastern and southern Africa. This paper is a fieldwork-based case-study of the ‘commodity chain’ for dagaa.
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    Of saviours and punks: the political economy of the Nile perch marketing chain in Tanzania

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997
    The paper is a fieldwork-based case study of the commodity chain for the Nile Perch fish from Lake Victoria, Tanzania. This fish first began apperaring in significant numbers in the lake in the early 1980s and within a few years a large artisanal fishery developed around it.
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    From Dutch disease to deforestation - a macroeconomic link? A case study from Ecuador

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997
    In the literature about macroeconomics and deforestation, it is often supposed that strong foreign exchange outflows (e.g. debt service) increase deforestation, as higher poverty augments frontier migration and natural resources are squeezed to generate export revenues. This paper analyses the opposite phenomenon, i.e.

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