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    Swedish Development Cooperation with India - in a Poverty Reduction Perspective

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    The paper gives an overview of Sweden's development cooperation with India, viewed from a poverty reduction perspective. It is one of the products of a research project, entitled 'Comparative Study of European Aid for Poverty Reduction in India', carried out in 1997 by a group of four European and eleven Indian researchers.
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    Danish Development Cooperation with India - in a Poverty Reduction Perspective

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    The paper gives an overview of Denmark's official development cooperation with India, viewed from a poverty reduction perspective. It is one of the products of a research project, entitled 'Comparative Study of European Aid for Poverty Reduction in India', carried out in 1997 by a group of four European and eleven Indian researchers.
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    Reaching out to children in poverty. The integrated child development servicesin Tamil Nadu, (ICDS)

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2000
    Programme has been offering a package of of services related to human resource development - health , nutrition, and education - for children, adolescent girls and and women.
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    The benefits of growth for Indonesian workers

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    Does improving the conditions of workers in Indonesia require government interventions?Indonesia's rapid, broadly based pattern of growth has led to a spectacular reduction in poverty in the past 25 years.
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    Targeting assistance to the poor and food insecure: a literature review

    The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 1995
    This report is a comprehensive review of the literature and summary of “targeting” programs that deliver food assistance to the poor and food insecure. It provides definitions, ra-tionales for targeting, analysis of benefits and costs (political and administrative) of various targeting mechanisms, and descriptions of targeting methods.
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    An Assessment of European - aided Watershed Development Projects in India from the Perspective of Poverty Reduction and the poor

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    The paper assesses four Watershed Development Projects in India supported by European donors, namely Karnataka Watershed Development Project (Danida), Doon Valley Integrated Watershed Management Project (European Commission), Karnataka Integrated Watershed Management Project (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau) and Karnataka Watershed Development Project (Overseas Development Administration/Department
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    Structure and conduct of major agricultural input and output markets and response to reforms by rural households in Madagascar

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 1998
    Interim reports on adjustment in the input trading sector; price behavior in local markets; and adjustment farm households have been published and are available online.
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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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    Community-level interventions against HIV/AIDS from a gender perspective

    United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2000
    This paper deliberately avoids dwelling on the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS, its impact on women, families, communities and on development. The author chooses rather to focus on some salient issues pertaining to Community Level Health Interventions Against HIV/AIDS from a Gender Perspective.The paper outlines policy recommendations and potential interventions in the short/medium and long-term.
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    Pastoral institutions and approaches to risk management and poverty alleviation in Central Asian countries in transition

    Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 1999
    Outlines new notion (risk management) of poverty alleviation among pastoralist communites in Central Asia. Pastoralists may either harness the beneficial effects of risk and uncertainty (i.e. fluctuations in commodity price of livestock) or attempt to manage the destructive effects of risk and uncertainty (i.e.

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