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  Marrying farmer cooperation and contract farming for service provision in a liberalising sub-Saharan Africa

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999

  The paper explores ways of improving the performance of cooperation and contract farming, as well as the scope for linkages between them.
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  Roads and realities: how to promote road contracting in developing countries

  Water Engineering and Development Centre, 2000

  Book available in full-text contains ideas, methods and techniques for the provision of local road networks. It is aimed at policy-makers, construction professionals and students involved in the practical side of the sector and development specialists in and outside the sector.
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  Agricultural policy in Africa after adjustment

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 2000

  This study looks at agricultural policy in Africa since structural adjustment, with the aim of drawing conclusions about policies for the post-adjustment era.The study suggests that while some of the changes brought about under agricultural structural adjustment go too far, in many other respects they do not go far enough.
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  Institutions, politics, and contracts: the attempt to privatize the water and sanitation utility of Lima, Peru

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  This article deals with various issues surrounding the privatization of the the Water and Sanitation Utility of Lima, Peru. Lima's water system was in near-crisis, but this was not enough to bring about radical change. Partial reforms to reduce many of the city's worst problems were carried out under public management.
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  Evaluating public spending: a framework for public expenditure reviews

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1996

  This paper presents a framework for evaluating the level and composition of public expenditures, illustrated by sectoral and country examples.
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  Biotechnology to benefit small-scale banana producers in Kenya

  Global Development Network, 2000

  This project was conceived in response to the rapid decline in banana production experienced over the last two decades, which was brought about by the infestation of Panama diseases, sigatoka, weevils/nematode complexes and environmental degradation. The situation threatened food security, employment and income in banana producing areas.
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  Year 2000 country profile: the status of Tanzania with the IMF and the World Bank

  Globalization Challenge Initiative, 2000

  Globalization Challenge Initiative (GCI) publishes the SAP Information Alert Series in order to promote informed debate about IMF and World Bank-financed operations, including the potential political, economic, social and environmental consequences of sectoral and strucural adjustment programs.
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  Issues paper for OECD Emerging Market Forum on electronic commerce

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2001

  The paper explores the key issues related to global electronic commerce, particularly as they apply to emerging market economies (EMEs). It outlines the background and current situation of global electronic commerce and highlights key issues for discussion.
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  ICTs and poverty

  World Bank, 2000

  This article argues that the lack of access to information and communications technologies (ICTs) is an element of poverty in the way that insufficient nutrition or inadequate shelter are.
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  Paths out of poverty: the role of private enterprise in developing coutries

  International Finance Corporation, 2000

  This article emphasises that private enterprises are essential in allowing the poor to escape poverty, and looks at which conditions encourage or discourage private firms from doing business in poorer countries.Key conditions are: the state can secure contract enforcement between private parties and between private parties and the state—most basically, clearly defined property rights.

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