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  Making Negotiated Land Reform Work: Initial Experience from Brazil, Colombia, and South Africa

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Can land reform have a lasting impact on poverty reduction?
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  Tentative Costing of Illustrative Alternatives to the HIPC Initiative Framework

  International Monetary Fund, 1999

  Tentative estimates of the costs of changing some key parameters of the current framework of the HIPC Initiative. Intended to illustrate the kinds of proposals which have been made by NGOs such as Eurodad, Jubilee 2000, Oxfam, and religious groups.
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  Growth, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America: A Causal Analysis, 1970 - 94

  1999

  Uses data for the 1970-94 period for 12 Latin American countries to analyze the role of aggregate income growth on changes in urban and rural poverty and inequality. Shows that income growth is only effective in reducing poverty and inequality if the initial levels of inequality and poverty are not too high and if educational levels are sufficiently high.
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  Internal Displacement: articles from Forced Migration Review

  Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford, 1998

  Short articles on internal displacement of refugees: Forced migration within national borders: the IDP agenda by Jon Bennett The Three Gorges: the unexamined toll of development-induced displacement by Martin Stein National response to internal displacement by Jennifer McLeanLiving in the shadows: internally displaced people in southern Africa by Marion Ryan Sinclair Colomb
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  Joint BIS-IMF-OECD-World Bank statistics on external debt

  Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1999

  Latest international data available, mainly from creditor sources, on the external debt of developing and transition countries and territories. The information is presented in the form of country tables that are updated quarterly.
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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 continuing Asian financial crisis: global adjustment and trade

  Institute for International Economics, USA, 1999

  Uses a multi-region computable general equilibrium model to analyze the impact of the Asian crisis thus far, highlighting the implications of possible future developments in Japan and China. The main conclusion is that depreciation of the yen would tend to have an adverse impact on the rest of Asia, even if Japanese growth were to be restored.
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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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