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    Mainstreaming Public Participation in Economic Infrastructure Projects

    Overseas Development Institute, 1998
    In the last ten years, participation has become central to the social development sectors of official development assistance – smallholder agriculture, community forestry, health care, education, urban sanitation, small-scale water supplies, etc.
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    How Bad Governance Impedes Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh

    OECD Development Centre, 1998
    In 1995/96, 47.5 per cent of the population of Bangladesh were still living below the poverty line. While this represents a decline compared to 62.6 per cent in 1983/84, the absolute number of poor people has in fact increased over the same period.
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    Lessons from Africa's Social Funds and Public Works and Employment Projects

    Africa Region Findings, World Bank, 1998
    The concept of creating autonomous or semi-autonomous entities to implement small-scale projects more efficiently has spread throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.
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    The roles of Chinese economists in economic reform

    National Centre for Development Studies, Australia, 1998
    Before economic reform, economists rarely played any important roles in the decision-making process of China’s economy.
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    Water Challenge and Institutional Response: A Cross-Country Perspective

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    Concerns in the water sector, which once revolved around water development (and quantity), now revolve around water allocation (and quality).
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    Who Controls East Asian Corporations?

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    A study of 2,980 corporations in nine East Asian countries finds more than half of those firms being controlled by a single shareholder. Many smaller and older firms are family-controlled.
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    Creation of Land Markets in Transition Countries: Implications for the Institutions of Land Administration

    Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999
    Describes (1) the processes of privatization of land management in selected transition countries and (2) the post-privatization changes in land administration institutions which are being crafted to establish land markets.
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    Information, ICTs and Small Enterprise: Lessons from Botswana

    Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 1999
    The potential contribution of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to small enterprise development can only be assessed by first understanding current information practices and needs in such enterprises.
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    Land management programme in Tanzania

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2000
    Evaluation of LAMP in different contexts:broader change processesdevelopment thinkingcomparative analysis of different conditions of LAMP in the four districts it has been implemented inFindings include: recommending that the programme shifts focus from considering its core as natural resources management to one of support to the empowerment, mobilisation and capaci
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    Policies to promote non-farm rural employment in Latin America

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2000
    Reviews a range studies published since 1994 on the developments in rural non-agricultural employment (RNAE) and income (RNAI) in several Latin American countries.It distinguishes between diversification arising from traditional agriculture and that driven by exogenous influences, highlighting the importance of the latter.

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