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    The determinants of the national position of Brazil on climate change : empirical reflections

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997
    International negotiations on the Framework Convention on Climate Change have been characterized by severe polarization between developed and developing countries. The G77, led by major countries such as Brazil, India, and China, illustrated a remarkable capacity to manifest its importance in the final text of the Convention.
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    Decentralization and macroeconomic management

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
    There is a vast and growing body of literature covering the potential efficiency and welfare gains from decentralization. The literature has also amply discussed the potential trade-offs between decentralization and income redistribution, as well as various mechanisms designed to attenuate these trade-offs.
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    The impact of commercialization on the role of labour in African pastoral societies

    Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1991
    As pastoral systems undergo commercialisation, all parts of those systems (livestock productivity, range use, household economies and the socio-cultural system itself) adjust to the new goals of production. This paper considers one of the elements in this adjustment, that of the changing role of labour.
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    The Internet as a Research and Learning Tool: a Review of its Use for the Study of Local Government and Decentralisation in Latin America

    International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 1998
    The use of Internet as a research and learning tool is a recent phenomena. Latin American Studies in general, but the area of local government and decentralisation, specifically, may benefit a great deal by using these new approaches. The purpose of this paper is to raise awareness about the unlimited possibilities for innovation, by using Internet in the mentioned areas.
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    An Assessment of European - aided Watershed Development Projects in India from the Perspective of Poverty Reduction and the poor

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    The paper assesses four Watershed Development Projects in India supported by European donors, namely Karnataka Watershed Development Project (Danida), Doon Valley Integrated Watershed Management Project (European Commission), Karnataka Integrated Watershed Management Project (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau) and Karnataka Watershed Development Project (Overseas Development Administration/Department
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    Annual Review of Development Effectiveness (ARDE), World Bank

    Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1999
    Report synthesizes the results of individual evaluations completed during the previous calendar year; It provides an overview of the Bank's portfolio performance
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    Business development, social security or patronage? Zambia’s Agricultural Credit Management Programme.

    Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997
    The government that took power in Zambia in 1991 faced the challenge of fulfilling its promise to liberalise the economy while at the same time preventing any further increase in poverty and consolidating its hold on power. Part of its response was the launch, in 1994, of the Agricultural Credit Management Programme (ACMP).
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    Agricultural change under structural adjustment and other shocks in Zambia

    Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997
    The agricultural sectors of many economies in Sub-Saharan Africa have been profoundly affected by policy changes comprising part of the wider process of structural adjustment. Government controls on exchange rates, interest rates, farm inputs and crop output prices have been liberalized.
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    The Urban Labour Market During Structural Adjustment: Ethiopia 1990-1997

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998
    Paper examines the effects of reform and structural adjustment on the urban labour market in Ethiopia using a combination of cross-section and panel data based on surveys conducted both pre- and post- reform. During this period Ethiopia has seen impressive growth in GDP but little in the way of private investment.
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    Economic objectives, public-sector deficits and macroeconomic stability in Zimbabwe

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997
    A fundamental macroeconomic problem in Zimbabwe is that the sum of public-sector projects is greater than the resources available to finance them.

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