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Intellectual property needs and expectations of traditional knowledge holders
World Intellectual Property Organization, 2000This Report presents information compiled by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) from nine fact-finding missions on the intellectual property (IP) needs and expectations of holders of traditional knowledge (TK).The first section of the chapter "Framing the Intellectual Property Needs and Expectations of Traditional Knowledge Holders " provides a basic and general introduction toDocumentAid versus trade revisited
Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2001Examines the (non) equivalence between aid flows and trade preferences as alternative forms of donor assistance in the presence of learning-by-doing externalities in recipient country export production.DocumentAdjustment and poverty in Mexican agriculture: how farmers' wealth affects supply response
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995By and large, it appears that the goals of agricultural reform are being met in Mexico.DocumentNontariff barriers Africa faces : what did the Uruguay Round accomplish, and what remains to be done?
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995African countries should generally benefit from the Uruguay Round liberalization of non tariff barriers, although some countries may suffer losses. The main danger could be failure to undertake the domestic reforms needed to take advantage of the more competitive trade environment.Perhaps the major accomplishment of the Uruguay Round is agreements reached on non tariff barriers (NTBs).DocumentStructure and conduct of major agricultural input and output markets and response to reforms by rural households in Madagascar
International Food Policy Research Institute, 1998Interim reports on adjustment in the input trading sector; price behavior in local markets; and adjustment farm households have been published and are available online.DocumentPeasant Cotton Cultivation and Marketing Behaviour in Tanzania since Liberalisation
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998Discusses the debate around structural adjustment and African agriculture, the history of the Tanzanian cotton sector and farming systems in the main cotton growing area of the country before reporting the results of a small survey of cultivators carried out at the end of the 1997/8 seed cotton marketing season.DocumentFailed Magic or Social Context?: Market Liberalization and the Rural Poor in Malawi
Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1996One of the key questions in the debates swirling around structural adjustment programs in Africa is their effects on the poor. Have these programs "benefited ... the rural poor disproportionately", as concluded in Adjustment in Africa (World Bank 1994)? The answer for rural families studied over a period of years in Malawi is no.DocumentGrowth is good for the poor
Economic Growth Project, World Bank, 2000This paper investigates the link between income of the poor and overall income (per capita GDP).DocumentAnalysis of policy reforms and structural adjustment programs in Malawi with emphasis on agriculture and trade
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996This study’s emphasis on agriculture’s elevated role in Malawi’s medium-term adjustment strategy and its articulation of the sector’s key role as the engine of growth and employment aptly makes an important point. Dr.DocumentStructural adjustment and Moroccan agriculture: an assessment of the reforms in the sugar and cereal sectors
OECD Development Centre, 1992This paper reviews the process of agricultural policy reforms in Morocco in the 1980's, with particular emphasis on the cereals and sugar sub-sectors.Pages
