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  Agricultural change under structural adjustment and other shocks in Zambia

  Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997

  The agricultural sectors of many economies in Sub-Saharan Africa have been profoundly affected by policy changes comprising part of the wider process of structural adjustment. Government controls on exchange rates, interest rates, farm inputs and crop output prices have been liberalized.
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  Encouraging Sustainable Smallholder Agriculture in Southern Africa in the Context of Agricultural Services Reform

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  Summarises the results of six DFID funded country studies on encouraging sustainable agriculture in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. It emphasises the need for continuing government and donor support for sustainable increases in agricultural productivity which must underpin poverty alleviation.
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  UNDP Human Development Report 1999

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1999

  Focuses on issues of inter-dependence and globalisation. Considers how markets have been allowed to dominate the process, and the benefits and opportunities have not been shared equitably. Argues that while many millions of people are being further marginalized by their lack of access to new technologies, including the Internet, growing inequalities are not inevitable.
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  Failed Magic or Social Context?: Market Liberalization and the Rural Poor in Malawi

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1996

  One of the key questions in the debates swirling around structural adjustment programs in Africa is their effects on the poor. Have these programs "benefited ... the rural poor disproportionately", as concluded in Adjustment in Africa (World Bank 1994)? The answer for rural families studied over a period of years in Malawi is no.
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  Eliminating world poverty: making globalisation work for the poor

  DFID White Paper on Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalisation Work for the Poor, 2000

  While progress has been made over the years in development, many challenges yet remain in order to make globalisation work for the poor.
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  Community based rural development: reducing rural poverty from the ground up

  Rural Development Strategy Team, World Bank, 2001

  This article investigates Community Based Rural Development, which is an approach to reducing rural poverty that promotes collective action by communities and puts them in control of development interventions by making community based organizations (CBOs) driving forces in the process.Conclusions:CBOs directly manage most project resources.
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  Africans query World Bank, IMF governance mantra

  Bretton Woods Project, 2001

  This article discusses the recent trip of President James Wolfensohn and IMF Managing Director Horst Koehler to Mali and Tanzania to meet 22 African leaders in February. The theme of their visit was discussions concerning good governance.Ironically, the efforts to listen to civil society groups directly were minimal.
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  Wheat policy reform in Egypt: adjustment of local markets and options for future reforms

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2000

  Since 1987, as part of a general shift toward a more market-oriented economy, Egypt’s wheat sector has been partially liberalized, primarily in production and trade.
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  Adjustment and Equity

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  Adjustment does not necessarily increase poverty.Adjusting before a crisis reduces social costs.Refusal to adjust and the suspension of imports leads to self-centred underdevelopment, which is socially much more costly. The choice of macroeconomic stabilisation measures is important: the same result can be obtained with higher or lower social costs.
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  Structural adjustment and Moroccan agriculture: an assessment of the reforms in the sugar and cereal sectors

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  This paper reviews the process of agricultural policy reforms in Morocco in the 1980's, with particular emphasis on the cereals and sugar sub-sectors.

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