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    Political, economic and social institutions : a review of growth evidence

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998
    Integrates North's institutional framework with the notion of institutions in the augmented Solow growth model, to clarify the direct and indirect channels by which institutions influence growth. Four ways to extend the Solow model in order to incorporate a rôle for institutions are outlined; and growth regressions are reinterpreted in this light.
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    Social exclusion and South Asia: A regional bibliographical review and India case study

    International Institute for Labour Studies, ILO, 1995
    Regional report starts with a description of basic indicators of the five South Asian countries Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. . Section II discusses some basic concepts of poverty. In section III, the so-called direct and indirect approaches to poverty alleviation and economic growth are described.
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    Calm after the Storms: Income Distribution in Chile, 1987–94

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
    With the profound political and economic changes of the 1970s and 1980s behind it, and regardless of its trade patterns, Chile's income distribution is, for the moment, calm. Education may be the most important variable affecting the structure of, and changes in, inequality in Chile.
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    Aid, the Incentive Regime, and Poverty Reduction

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
    Aid spurs growth and poverty reduction only in a good policy environment so it should be targeted to countries that have improved their economic policy. That aid tends to be allocated relatively indiscriminately is one factor that undermines its potential impact. Spurring growth in the developing world is one stated objective of foreign aid.
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    Social Development Policies, Results and Learning: a Multi-agency Review

    Department for International Development, UK, 1997
    Review of the monitoring and evaluation practices of agencies involved in social development work (particularly those aimed at the reduction of poverty and the enhancement of the capacity of secondary stakeholders (donor agencies, governmental agencies, NGOs, and private businesses) to reduce poverty.Includes both an issue based synthethis (relating back to DFID objectives) and an agency-by-age
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    Evaluation of Stakeholder Impacts in Cost-Benefit Analysis

    Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1998
    Expands the scope of the analyses of both public and private investment projects beyond the traditional criteria of the financial and economic net present value of an investment.
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    Fashion victims: The Asian garment industry and globalisation

    Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 1998
    Report looks at the impact of globalisation on the lives of garment workers in Asia. Urban Missionaries, a CAFOD partner in the Philippines, carried out research on the increasing use of temporary contracts in the garment industry. In Sri Lanka, People’s Forum for Development Alternatives (PEFDA) interviewed workers in the Kandy and Kurunegala areas.
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    Land Reform, Poverty Reduction and Growth: Evidence from India

    Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, 1998
    In recent times there has been a renewed interest in relationships between redistribution, growth and welfare. Land reforms have been central to strategies to improve the asset base of the poor in developing countries thought their effectiveness has been hindered by political constraints on implementation.
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    Economic Policy Reform and Growth Prospects in Emerging Africa Economies

    OECD Development Centre, 1999
    Assesses the prospects for growth of African economies up to the year 2010 by modelling structural and policy determinants of growth, under different scenarios for changes in the exogenous factors and economic policies which shape the projections. To this end we estimate a growth model for 39 African economies, during seven five-year periods from 1960 through 1995.
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    The Performance and Sustainability of Two Philippine Microfinance Institutions

    Banking with the Poor Network, 1998
    Reviews the performance and sustainability of two Philippine NGOs that have not reached the scale of the more renowned models. These are the Alalay sa Kaunlaran sa Gitnang Luzon, Inc (ASKI) and the Kabalikat para sa Maunlad na Buhay, Inc (KMBI).

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