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    Paradigm Case Illustrations of Incremental Cost Analysis

    Program for Measuring Incremental Costs for the Evironment, GEF, 1999
    The application of the incremental cost assessment to biodiversity has always been uncertain. This paper seeks to demonstrate that the concept is a workable one in biodiversity. This paper has a twofold aim:1. to make explicit the strategic and logical approach to incremental cost assessment- to demonstrate that it is replicable and applicable to all GEF projects2.
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    Study of GEF project lessons: summary report

    Global Environment Facility, 1998
    Report synthesizes lessons learned to date from projects financed during GEF's Pilot Phase. It was prepared primarily for the benefit of project and task managers of GEF projects. The Project Lessons study underscores that even well designed projects evolve continuously, and their managers need to be able to deal with a variety of technical, social and political issues at the same time.
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    Still in business: The Ivory Trade in Asia, Seven Years After the CITES Ban

    Traffic International, 1997
    This report provides a review of the current Asian ivory trade, examining recent information from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and Taiwan. It shows that Asia's ivory industry is still in business, seven years after the international ban.
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    Making CITES Work: Examples of Effective Implementation and Enforcement

    Traffic International, 1997
    This report presents examples of the positive moves that have been made by both governments and agencies to improve implementation and enforcement of the Convention and associated national laws and regulations.
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    An Economic Analysis of Alternative Mangrove Management Strategies in Koh Kong Province, Cambodia

    IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 1997
    A recent economic study of the mangroves of Koh Kong concludes that without an integrated management plan for the area, environmental degradation will continue, possibly leading to collapse of the resource. This one-year study was undertaken by the Ministry of Environment with support from consultant Camille Bann and financing from EEPSEA.
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    Logs or Local Livelihood?: The Case for Legalizing Community Control of Forest Lands in Ratanakiri, Cambodia

    IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 1997
    A recent eighteen-month economic study of the benefits of alternative uses of forest and in Ratanakiri province recommends the exclusion of customary forest land from current and future commercial concessions.
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    Certified Forestry News

    Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 1999
    Monthly news bulletin highlighting events, activities and resources for individuals and groups interested in independent third party certification of forests and wood products.
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    Swedish Development Cooperation with India - in a Poverty Reduction Perspective

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    The paper gives an overview of Sweden's development cooperation with India, viewed from a poverty reduction perspective. It is one of the products of a research project, entitled 'Comparative Study of European Aid for Poverty Reduction in India', carried out in 1997 by a group of four European and eleven Indian researchers.
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    Danish Development Cooperation with India - in a Poverty Reduction Perspective

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    The paper gives an overview of Denmark's official development cooperation with India, viewed from a poverty reduction perspective. It is one of the products of a research project, entitled 'Comparative Study of European Aid for Poverty Reduction in India', carried out in 1997 by a group of four European and eleven Indian researchers.
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    The Aga Khan Rural Support Program: A Third Evaluation

    Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995
    AKRSP, in its thirteenth year of operation, continues to be an effective instrument to improve community productivity and family welfare in Pakistan's Northern Areas and Chitral. Improvements have resulted from the program's interventions in productive investments, in production-support investments, such as access roads, in training, and in financial and technical services.

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