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  Lessons from Africa's Social Funds and Public Works and Employment Projects

  Africa Region Findings, World Bank, 1998

  The concept of creating autonomous or semi-autonomous entities to implement small-scale projects more efficiently has spread throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.
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  The roles of Chinese economists in economic reform

  National Centre for Development Studies, Australia, 1998

  Before economic reform, economists rarely played any important roles in the decision-making process of China’s economy.
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  Water Challenge and Institutional Response: A Cross-Country Perspective

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Concerns in the water sector, which once revolved around water development (and quantity), now revolve around water allocation (and quality).
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  Who Controls East Asian Corporations?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  A study of 2,980 corporations in nine East Asian countries finds more than half of those firms being controlled by a single shareholder. Many smaller and older firms are family-controlled.
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  Competitive Agricultural Technology Funds in Developing Countries

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999

  Dissatisfaction with traditional mechanisms of funding agricultural research and dissemination (AR&D) in developing countries has led to the introduction of competitive agricultural technology funds (CATFs) in an increasing number of them. This model is now favoured by many donors, despite the fact that available information on its modalities and performance has been fragmentary.
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  A Social Network Approach to Analyzing Research Systems: A Study of Kenya, Ghana, and Kerala, India

  International Service for National Agricultural Research, 1997

  Describes a social network approach to analyzing science and technology systems, taking into account the primary sectors involved in agriculture and natural resource management. It outlines a methodology for producing an inventory of the set of relationships that actually occur rather than purely formal, “on paper” linkages, which may or may not be operational.
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  Creation of Land Markets in Transition Countries: Implications for the Institutions of Land Administration

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999

  Describes (1) the processes of privatization of land management in selected transition countries and (2) the post-privatization changes in land administration institutions which are being crafted to establish land markets.
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  Governance in Thailand: challenges, issues and prospects

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 1999

  Overview of the major governance issues currently confronting the Thai Government, with particular emphasis upon the issues likely to be of greatest interest to international donors such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
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  The Design and Use of Capacity Development Indicators

  Institutional and Capacity Development Network, DAC, 1997

  Report sets out a generic list of capabilities that projects could be designed to achieve.
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  Criteria for Donor Agencies' Self-Assessment in Capacity Development

  Institutional and Capacity Development Network, DAC, 1999

  Aimed at reform-minded agencies and staff concerned with integrating capacity development into their day-to-day operations and improving their performance in this field. Aims to link donor's internal policies and practices to the impact of these in the field.

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