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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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  The Perestroika of Aid?: New Perspectives on conditionality

  Christian Aid, 1999

  Reviews policy arguements on conditionality and recommends and NGO standpoint. Discussed in the context of the Wolfenson/World Bank Comprehensive Development Framework.Argues that NGOs' engagement in the conditionality debate has largely focused on concerns about donors' policy prescriptions and advocating alternatives.
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  Conditioning Debt Relief on Adjustment: Creating the Conditions for More Indebtedness

  Development Group for Alternative Policies, 1999

  Argues that there is a positive linear relationship between the number of years that countries implement adjustment programs and increases in debt levels.
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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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  UNDP's Experience in Supporting Governance and Reconciliation Programmes in Countries in Special Circumstances

  Management & Governance Network, UNDP, 1999

  In the recent past, UNDP has designed, implemented and supported programmes to promote governance and reconciliation initiatives in countries in conflict or undergoing economic transition.
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  Business services in the Globalizing African economies

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Discusses the role of business services in the economy in general and especially in the low-income African economies. At the global level large transnational business service firms are developing global service networks linking the world’s large cities together and serving especially the large transnational companies, but apparently largely by-passing Africa.
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  King Cotton under Sovereignty: The Private Marketing Chain for Cotton in Western Tanzania, 1997/98

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Examines the emergence of a private sector marketing chain for cotton in Tanzania in the period 1994/95-1997/98, based on field work conducted between June and September 1997.
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  Limping towards a Ditch without a Crutch: The Brave New World of Tanzanian Cotton Marketing Cooperatives.

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Describes developments in cotton marketing cooperatives in Tanzania’s major cotton growing area between 1991 and 1997. During this period cooperatives underwent voluntarisation, lost state and donor financial support and (from 1995) had to face strong competition from private cotton buyers/ginners.
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  Conflict, Development and the Lomé Convention

  Development Studies Association, UK and Ireland, 1999

  Examines the idea of conflict prevention as a new theme in development theory. It analyses conflict and development in a variety of aspects and raises the question of whether international conflict prevention is merely a new fashion in development theory.
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  The Search for the Key: Aid, Investment, and Policies in Africa

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Aid does not necessarily finance investment, and investment does not necessarily promote growth. But the combination of private investment, good policies, and foreign aid is quite powerful.

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