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    The IMF funding deforestation: how International Monetary Fund loans and policies are responsible for global forest loss

    American Lands Alliance, 2001
    Report which alleges that International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans and policies have caused extensive deforestation in each of the 15 countries of Africa, Latin America, and Asia studied.This forest loss, the author claims, has occurred both directly and indirectly through:the IMF's promotion of foreign investment in natural resource sectorsausterity measures that cut spending on en
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    Structural adjustment in the name of the poor: the PRSP experience in the Lao PDR, Cambodia and Vietnam

    Focus on the Global South, 2002
    Critique of the PRSP process globally, with commentary on initial experiences in the Lao PDR, Cambodia and Vietnam.The report questions the quantity and quaility of consultation in the 3 countries, highlighting: limited time given to consultationmediation of participation through structures controlled by government and large institutionsGovernment policy was being re-directed to
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    Local developmental states: who can promote what kind of industry?

    Governance and Development Review, IDS, 2002
    The municipal authorities of Beijing and Shanghai have each sought to promote a range of industrial activities, including information technology (IT) and automobile manufacturing. Beijing has been successful in IT and not in automobiles; and Shanghai in automobiles and not IT.
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    Parents providing care to adult sons and daughters with HIV/AIDS in Thailand

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2001
    This report is a qualitative analysis of the circumstances and consequences of parental caregiving to adult children with AIDS in Thailand based on open-ended interviews, primarily with parents of adult children who died of AIDS.The results reveal the circumstances that lead to parental caregiving, the tasks involved and the stress they created, how parents coped with this stress, and the conse
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    Response to AIDS at individual, household and community levels in Thailand

    United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2002
    Looks at how individuals, families and communities cope with and respond to the challenges presented by HIV/AIDS, particularly outside the much-studied Northern Region. . It begins by briefly reviewing the influence of the on-going social transformation in relation to the AIDS epidemic in Thailand.
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    Actual and de facto childlessness in East Java: a preliminary analysis

    Oxford Institute of Ageing, 2002
    The limitations of state provision in developing countries have meant that research on elderly welfare has more or less inevitably focussed on support available via family systems. The short answer to the question “What help exists for poor and frail elderly people?” presupposes a simple solution: their children.
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    The privatization process of rangeland and its impacts on pastoral dynamics in the Hindu-Kush Himalaya: the case of Western Sichuan, China

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 1999
    This article disucsses the effects of the last four decades of change in China in relation to traditional Tibetan pastoral production systems.
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    Forests and the neoliberal economy: lessons from Indonesia and beyond: conference proceedings

    WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2001
    The conference consisted of two complementary sessions. The first session highlighted the results of the CIFOR/WWF-MPO research detailing the impacts of IMF/World Bank policy interventions on the forest and oil palm sectors of Indonesia. Next, the IMF presented their perspective on the challenges of developing policies to help re-float the Indonesian economy.
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    Grassland tenure in China: an economic analysis

    Department of Applied and International Economics, Massey University, 2001
    The primary purpose of this paper is to make a contribution towards extending the coverage of this cropland tenure literature to China's extensive grasslands, which comprise some 40% of its territory.The article finds that:there are two unique characteristics of grassland tenure in this territory: group tenure arrangements and 'fuzzy' boundariesin conventional microeconomic analysis
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    The role and effectiveness of development assistance

    World Bank, 2002
    Examines a broad range of evidence on both the successes and failures of development assistance over the past 50 years.

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