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    Long-term global demographic trends: reshaping the geopolitical landscape

    Central Intelligence Agency, 2001
    This paper identifies the factors that will be most important in shaping the worldwide demographic landscape in 2020 and beyond.
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    Immigration, xenophobia and human rights in South Africa

    Southern African Migration Project, 2001
    This paper first examines various reports and studies which made the claims about growing xenophobia in the mid-1990s, presents an overview of the findings of public opinion surveys conducted from1997-2000 and draws some policy implications from the findings.
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    Building new states: lessons from Eritrea

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001
    With the Derg's overthrow in 1991, Eritrea embarked on the construction of a new state. New economic institutions were created, and considerable reform undertaken.
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    Conflict management in community-based natural resource projects: experiences from Fiji and Papua New Guinea

    Overseas Development Institute, 2000
    This paper discusses the problem of non-violent conflicts and disputes as a constraint to sustainable natural resource management at the community level.The article finds that:third-party mediation should only be tried if viable customary approaches to conflict management have demonstrably failedthird-party mediation should only be tried if it is impracticable to try to strengthen t
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    Conflict prevention, reconstruction assistance and development

    Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke, 2000
    Paper considers how conflict prevention can be integrated holistically in our thinking on development, and how aid for reconstruction following situations of conflict can be understood as an integral part of the long-term push for sustainable development.ConclusionsIn order to support developing countries to develop the necessary local capacity to prevent conflicts from escalatin
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    Gender and participation

    BRIDGE, 2001
    This issue traces synergies and tensions between gender and participation in development practice. The lead article reminds development practitioners that institutions need to mainstream gender-aware and participatory approaches into their own work to ensure that development is truly equitable.
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    Overcoming the fiscal crisis of the African state

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001
    This article discusses the need for reform in sub-Saharan Africa.
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    The agrarian question in Mozambique's transition and reconstruction

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001
    This article comparatively studies the effect of policies associated with central planning and economic policies of transition, in Mozambique.The article finds that:the economic policies of transition and reconstruction in Mozambique, like the policies of central planning beforehand, were based on an inappropriate model of the inherited rural economyunder central planning, the peas
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    From conflict to resolution

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001
    This article discusses the relationship between reform and conflict.The article finds that:governments frequently compartmentalise issues of reform and reconstruction into separate strategies and separate ministriesdonors are similar in compartmentalising their responsibilities.
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    Reconstruction from war in Africa: communities, entrepreneurs, and states

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001
    This article looks at the move from conflict to reconstruction and then onto sustainable development, within an African context.It finds that:aid donors, NGOs, and international business can do much to help or hinder this processunless communities rebuild and strengthen their livelihoods, neither reconstruction nor growth will be poverty reducingcommunities cannot prosper unless

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