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Schooling Quality in a Cross Section of Countries
Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1998Investigates the determinants of educational quality in a newly-constructed panel data set that includes output and input measures for a broad number of countries. The results show that family inputs and school resources are closely related to school outcomes, as measured by internationally comparable test scores, repetition rates, and drop-out rates.DocumentFighting an Uphill Battle: Population Pressure and Declining Land Productivity in Rwanda.
Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1996Report draws attention to the structure of landholding as a set of mechanisms through which demographic changes in agrarian societies can alter the natural environment: demographically-induced change in the structure of landholding: farm holdings generally become smaller as an ever-increasing number of households enter the agricultural work force and seek to derive their livelihood from thDocumentForest Degradation, Household Resource Use and Management Institutions: A Case Study from India
Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1998Analyses forest conservation and management, based on a recent case study in Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan, India. A number of commonly made hypotheses are questioned.DocumentThe role of corruption in the misappropriation of tropical forest resources and in tropical forest destruction
Transparency International, 1998There exists broad evidence that in many countries corruption has been, or still is, a driving force behind misappropriation of forest resources and tropical forest destruction. The following examples were gathered rather randomly and are far from giving a complete picture of corruption in relation with tropical forests.DocumentThe WWF-World Bank Alliance Global Collaboration for Forest Conservation and Sustainable Use -- Thoughts on Making It Work
Macroeconomics for Sustainable Development Programme Office, WWF, 1998Taking the broad objectives and specific instruments of the WWF-World Bank Alliance as a starting point, the purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of major economic and political forces driving the deforestation/degradation process which need to be considered and addressed to maximize the achievement and effectiveness of the Alliance.DocumentMainstreaming Public Participation in Economic Infrastructure Projects
Overseas Development Institute, 1998In the last ten years, participation has become central to the social development sectors of official development assistance – smallholder agriculture, community forestry, health care, education, urban sanitation, small-scale water supplies, etc.DocumentContestation over Political Space: The State and Demobilisation of Party Politics in Kenya
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998Appraises political liberalization and subsequent contestation over political space in Kenya. The discussion centres on how, from the colonial period, elite politics have precluded organization and crystallization of popular democracy.The paper specifically examines the historicity of political factionalism and attendant decline of multi-partyism.DocumentGlobalization, Uneven Development and Poverty: Recent Trends and Policy Implications
Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 1998Paper outlines recent trends in economic growth, income distribution and poverty in the context of globalization.DocumentEthical Trading Initiatives and Forest Dependent People
Ethical Trade and Natural Resources Programme, NRI, 1998Discusses some of the schemes that promote environmentally sustainable trade in forest products and highlights some concerns about their impact on forest dependent people. The trading chains of many forest products, particularly non-timber forest products, are highly complex and people are involved in the marketing of these products in a variety of ways.