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    The Role of Agricultural Education in Improving the Performance of Support Services for the Renewable Natural Resources Sector

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997
    Whilst recent research (mainly in sub-Saharan Africa) has indicated a number of successful innovations in agricultural education and training (AET), it has generally been unresponsive to changing patterns of demand for trainees, which are influenced by the changing roles of public and private sectors.
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    West African regional security in the post Liberian conflict era : issues and perspectives

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997
    The paper attempts to analyse ECOWAS’ security regime’s first major effort towards enforcing compliance with its norms and values. The recent resolution of the Liberian conflict and Charles Taylor’s election to the Presidency may give cause for satisfaction but this paper argues that this may be premature as a result of what we see as the ethical questions that may arise.
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    Civil society: IISD resource guide

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 1998
    Bibilography of key paper resources concerning civil society and sustainable development accompanied by short abstracts. Also details of relevant WWW sites. Prepared by IISD Information Centre
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    Comparative Study of European Aid for Poverty Reduction: A collaborative European Research Project: Objectives and Methodology for Phase II Recipient Country Case Studies

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999
    Phase I of the study has been a series of individual donor studies undertaken in donor capitals. Phase II offers scope to explore in recipient country contexts, the perspectives of recipients and donors and their interaction as well as the comparative experience and outcomes of several EU donors in the same recipient country context - all related to poverty reduction (PR).
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    Taming the tigers: the IMF and the Asian crisis

    Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 1998
    Report begins by describing what actually happened in the three worst hit countries of Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea. It goes on to explore the human impact of the crisis. These chapters provide the material for a detailed analysis of the IMF’s role, and of the numerous failings in its performance to date.
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    The Information Society and Development: the Role of the European Union

    Information Society Project Office, EU, 1997
    Recent trends towards the information society potentially concern most human activities, including learning, communication, work and leisure. This applies equally to the developing countries, notwithstanding the diversity of their market situations, policies or technological capacities.
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    Economic reform and progress in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
    The paper examines the experience in structural reform in five areas—governance, international trade, financial markets, labor markets, and the generation and use of public resources—in countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. It develops quantitative indicators for the policy reforms and for their outcomes.
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    Distinguishing between Types of Data and Methods of Collecting Them

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    In the "quantitative-qualitative" debate, analysts often fail to make a clear distinction between methods of data collection used and types of data generated.
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    Short - term stabilization versus long - term price stability : evaluating Namibia's membership of the Common Monetary Area

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995
    It was found in this paper that (i) because of the high degree of openness of the Namibian economy and its small size, the use of nominal exchange rate as an instrument of adjustment will have limited effects; (ii) that the costs associated with the loss of monetary autonomy are small; and (iii) that there exists a wide range of instruments to address the effects of asymmetric shocks, irrespective
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    The political economy of ethnicity

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998
    Paper investigates the effects of ethnic diversity on economic performance and the risk of violent conflict. Diversity has various detrimental microeconomic effects, tending to reduce public sector performance, increase patronage, and lower the level of trust among individuals. However, whether diversity adversely affects overall economic growth depends upon the political environment.

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