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    The dynamics of poverty : why some people escape from poverty and others don't : an African case study

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    In urban areas of Cote d'Ivoire, human capital is the endowment that best explains welfare changes over time. In rural areas, physical capital especially the amount of land and farm equipment owned matters most.Empirical investigations of poverty in developing countries tend to focus on the incidence of poverty at a particular point in time.
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    Does more for the poor mean less for the poor? : the politics of tagging

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    Attempts to achieve "more for the poor" through the use of indicator targeting may in fact mean less for the poor. The efficient use of a fixed budget for poverty reduction may require targeting. However, the use of indicator targeting, using fixed characteristics that are correlated with poverty to determine the distribution of expenditures, will tend to reduce the budget.
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    The relationship between farm size and efficiency in South African agriculture

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    Commercial farms in South Africa could become significantly more efficient if they became smaller. The government could encourage that trend by removing policies and distortions that favor large over small farms.Drawing on international evidence, van Zyl, Binswanger, and Thirtle discuss the sources of economies of scale.
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    Testing the induced innovation hypothesis in South African agriculture : an error correction approach

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    Apparently factor prices do matter in agricultural production and in the selection of production technology. And in South Africa, more attention should be focused on the technological needs of small scale farmers.
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    The development of industrial pensions in the United States during the twentieth century

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    A survey of the development of pensions in the United States, addressing such issues as what employees want from pensions, what incentives the employer has to create pensions, and what desirable effects industrial pensions have on the economy.Pensions are retirement insurance: They offer protection in case you live long enough to quit collecting a paycheck and can stop working.
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    Indonesia's cocoa boom : hands - off policy encourages smallholder dynamism

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    Indonesia's cocoa output, produced mainly by smallholders on the island of Sulawesi, increased a phenomenal 26 percent a year (average, compounded) between 1980 and 1994.
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    Improving water resource management in Bangladesh

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    The management of water resources has become a critical need in Bangladesh because of growing demand for water and increasing conflict over its alternative uses.As populations expand and make various uses of water, its growing scarcity becomes a serious issue in developing countries such as Bangladesh.
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    Indonesia's palm oil subsector

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    A recommendation: Indonesia should repeal its export tax on crude palm oil and discontinue buffer stock operations and directed sales from public estates.
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    Roads, population pressures and deforestation in Thailand, 1976 - 1989

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
    Population pressures play less of a role in deforestation than earlier studies of Thailand found. Between 1976 and 1989, Thailand lost 28 percent ofits forest cover.
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    Research on Land Markets in South Asia: What Have We Learned?

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    What have we learned about land markets in South Asia about land reform, land fragmentation, sharecropping, security of tenure, farm size, land rights, transaction costs, bargaining power, policy distortions, and market imperfections (including those associated with gender)?Faruqee and Carey review the literature on land markets in South Asia to clarify what's known and to highlight unresolved

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