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  Land, Forests and People in Finnish Aid in Zanzibar: Some Preliminary Observations

  Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, 1998

  Sets out to examine the question of aid provision. As part of a general study on Finnish aid, the main focus is on two projects in Zanzibar: Zanzibar Forestry Project (ZFP) and Zanzibar Integrated Lands and Environment Management (ZILEM) project. This study centres on initial research carried out in Dar es Salaam (documentary) and Unguja (documentary, observational and in-depth interviews).
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  Best practices of Environmental Information Systems (EIS): the case of Zimbabwe

  Environment Information Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa Program, World Bank, 1997

  report considers the potential, constraints, successes and weaknesses of EIS (environment and land information systems, geographical information systems (GIS)), based on practical approaches in Zimbabwe were assessed and lessons-learnt were developed.The process of developing a national EIS in Zimbabwe is also in the evolutionary phase.
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  Does Corruption Affect Income Inequality and Poverty?

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1998

  Studies of the consequences of corruption have mainly focused on economic efficiency. This paper illustrates that corruption can also have distributional consequences.
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  The determinants of agricultural production : a cross-country analysis

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997

  Capital is important to agricultural production, so policies that improve access to agricultural capital will facilitate growth, if the capital is used efficiently. In this analysis of capital's role in agricultural production, a new construction of data on capital allowed Mundlak, Larson, and Butzer to advance the cross-country study of production functions.
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  Struggles of Access to land. The 'Squatter Question' in Coastal Kenya

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  In Kenya and the sub-Saharan Africa generally, there have been little systematic discussions on the post-colonial struggles over control and ownership of land. Studies ignore that the "land question" is not about production alone and consequently have failed to assess its wider consequences on the society.
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  The Evolution of Poverty and Inequality in Indian Villages

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Continued agricultural growth and diversification into nonagricultural activities are essential if India is to continue reducing rural poverty. But policymakers hoping to alleviate rural poverty must also be aware of the causes and implications of persisting, if not increasing, inequality within villages.
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  Who owns the ecosystem?

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999

  Paper is about how human society organizes its proprietary relationship to the biosphere and, in particular, the property implications of ecosystem management. Our premise is that ecosystem management is endangered by its "bigger-is-better" bias, the potential source of public backlash among landowners.
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  Social exclusion and Africa south of the Sahara: A review of the literature

  International Institute for Labour Studies, ILO, 1994

  Review for sub-Saharan Africa, examines the English-language literature and focuses on four important dimensions of exclusion: (i) exclusion from agricultural land; (ii) exclusion from agricultural livelihood; (iii) exclusion from formal and informal employment; (iv) exclusion from organization and representation.Paper is organized in six sections.
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  The Implications of HIV/AIDS for Rural Development Policy and Programming: Focus on sub-Saharan Africa

  HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 1998

  Examines the implications of the HIV epidemic for rural development policies and programmes in sub-Saharan Africa and, in particular: the inter-relationships between rural development and HIV/AIDS; and the broad policy and programming challenges that the epidemic poses for rural institutions.
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  Capital Outflow from the Agriculture Sector in Thailand

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998

  To understand Thailand's policy on development and industrialization, one must also study its policy on trade and agriculture. Certain Thai policies have facilitated economic development in Thailand: Raising agricultural productivity even during the early period of import substitution. The relatively equal distribution of land. Decentralized industrial growth.

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