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    The health effects of air pollution in Delhi, India

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
    Particulate air pollution has less overall impact on nontraumatic deaths in Delhi, India, than in U.S. cities. But the deaths occur earlier in life in Delhi, which could mean a larger loss in life-years. Cropper, Simon, Alberini, and Sharma report the results of a time-series study of the impact of particulate air pollution on daily mortality in Delhi.
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    Grain Market Research Project, Ethiopia

    Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1998
    Series of full text papers on grain marketing and food security in Ethiopia. Papers include: Improving information and Performance in Grain Marketing. Tschirley D., Diskin P., Molla D. and Clay D. (September 1995).WP2 - Toward a Research Agenda to Promote Household Access to Food in Ethiopia. Jayne, T.S. and Molla D. (September 1995).
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    Stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gases: physical, biological and socio-economic implications

    Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 1997
    Tutorial and discussion of the technical background to the stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations. Aimed at policy makers
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    Participatory Organizational Evaluation Tool (POET)

    Communication Initiative, 1998
    Tool and procees to (a) measure and profile organizational capacities and consensus levels in seven critical areas, and assess, over time, the impact of these activities on organizational capacity (benchmarking).
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    Fulani settlement and modes of adjustment in the Northwest Province of Cameroon

    Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1993
    This collection of papers includes:Highlights of the Nigerian livestock resources report (David Bourn). This article estimates the value of Nigerian livestock as a major national asset. Who controls this asset is worth further study.Cashmere production in Northern China (Angus Russel).
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    Poverty and Environment: Turning the Poor into Agents of Environmental Regeneration

    Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 1998
    The poor adapt and learn to live with poverty in a variety of ways. They also try to cope with shocks from events such as droughts, floods and loss of employment. Environmental resources play a vital role in their survival strategies. As the poor depend on environmental resources, one can expect them to have a stake in their preservation. Much of the damage done to natural resources is by others.
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    Encouraging Sustainable Smallholder Agriculture in Southern Africa in the Context of Agricultural Services Reform

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998
    Summarises the results of six DFID funded country studies on encouraging sustainable agriculture in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. It emphasises the need for continuing government and donor support for sustainable increases in agricultural productivity which must underpin poverty alleviation.
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    Assessing the Need to Manage Conflict in Community-Based Natural Resource Projects

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998
    Considers the role of ‘conflict management assessment’ in community-based natural resource projects. The importance of conducting an assessment of the potential for conflict and its management in relation to a project intervention is stressed, and an assessment framework described.
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    Structure and conduct of major agricultural input and output markets and response to reforms by rural households in Madagascar

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 1998
    Interim reports on adjustment in the input trading sector; price behavior in local markets; and adjustment farm households have been published and are available online.
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    The Social Impact of Adjustment in Tanzania in the 1980s: Economic Crisis and Household Survival Strategies

    Internet Journal of African Studies, 1996
    Provides a theoretical discussion of the key issues of the social impact and a brief account of the Tanzanian economy and the various dimensions of the economic crisis of the 1980s. Then discusses the social impact of adjustment programmes in Tanzania with regard to health, nutrition, education, pressure on women, and responses to the crisis and adjustment . [author]

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