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    Cost Allocation For Multi-service Micro-finance Institutions

    Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest, 1998
    Presents a series of questions MFI managers should ask themselves about allocating costs and assets among costs centers. Using examples from the field and a hypothetical case called Microfem, the paper explores alternative answers to these questions and considers the implications of cost allocation for the financial statements of multi-service MFIs using a non-integrated approach.
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    How CGAP Member Donors Fund Micro-finance Institutions

    Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest, 1999
    This FOCUS Note emanated from CGAP's Secretariat fielding the same questions from numerous micro-finance practitioners world wide: "How do the Member Donors of CGAP fund micro-finance institutions?
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    What Happened in East Asia: How Can it be Understood and What Can Development Organisations Do?

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998
    Analysis based on the convergence of viewpoints of a meeting held at IDS Sussex in July 1998. Policy recommendations include:Focus on structuring orderly debt workoutsModify and expand the HIPC initiativeDesign affordable safety netsEmphasise capacity building
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    South Africa: encouraging sustainable smallholder agriculture

    Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1998
    Concentrates on the black smallholder farming sector. Policy objectives should include:Resource Conserving Technologies: re-orientation away from large scale farmers, consideration of goals other than high input/output (risk management, labour input, gender).
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    Malawi: Services and policies needed to support sustainable smallholder agriculture

    Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1997
    Malawi’ s smallholder agriculture is facing a crisis, particularly in the more populated south. There is an insidious combination of land shortage, continuous cultivation of maize, declining soil fertility, low yields, deforestation, poverty and high population growth rate.
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    Botswana: Encouraging sustainable family sector agriculture

    Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1997
    Paper concentrates on services and policies needed to support sustainable family sector agriculture in the east of Botswana where the majority of the population and the largest number of resource poor people are concentrated. It does not attempt to look in detail at the needs of the 'Remote Area Dwellers’ although they experience extreme poverty, as this is a specific subject area.
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    Participatory Governance: The Missing Link for Poverty Reduction

    OECD Development Centre, 1999
    Empowerment of the poor is one ingredient in effective poverty reduction. A demand-driven participatory approach enhances effectiveness and efficiency. Accountability is the central lever for participatory governance. Capacity building is necessary for making participatory governance a reality.
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    Poverty alleviation : the role of rural institutions and participation

    Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives, 1997
    Most approaches to poverty alleviation focus on income and subsidy measures; however, there is a growing realization that these measures alone are not sufficient. The growing amount of literature on the important role that “social capital” and institutions play in the development process indicates that there is a social-institutional dimension as well.
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    The mobilising potential of anti-poverty programmes

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2000
    Paper aims to develop a set of concepts and a language to help understand better how "external agencies" could contribute to the (collective) empowerment of poor people through the ways in which they design, organise, and implement anti-poverty programmesThe authors argue for the adoption of indirect methods of encouraging the poor to mobilise politically around pro-poor agendas and movements.
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    Fostering technological capacity building: the case of Ethiopia and the United Republic of Tanzania

    Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania, 1995
    Looks at ways to foster technological capacity-building in the least developed countries.

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