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  Environment benefits from removing trade restrictions and distortions: background for WTO negotiations

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  The interaction between environmental policies and trade policies emerged as an issue at the end of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in 1994.
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  The Perestroika of Aid?: New Perspectives on conditionality

  Christian Aid, 1999

  Reviews policy arguements on conditionality and recommends and NGO standpoint. Discussed in the context of the Wolfenson/World Bank Comprehensive Development Framework.Argues that NGOs' engagement in the conditionality debate has largely focused on concerns about donors' policy prescriptions and advocating alternatives.
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  Rethinking the Causes of Deforestation: Lessons from Economic Models

  World Bank Research Observer, 1999

  Synthesizes the results of more than 140 economic models analyzing the causes of tropical deforestation. Raises significant doubts about many conventional hypotheses in the debate about deforestation. More roads, higher agricultural prices, lower wages, and a shortage of off-farm employment generally lead to more deforestation.
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  Engendering development

  Gendernet, World Bank, 2000

  Draft Policy Research Report examines the conceptual and empirical links between gender, public policy, and development outcomes and demonstrates the value of applying a gender perspective to the design of development policies.The evidence presented shows that societies that discriminate by gender pay a high price in terms of their ability to develop and to reduce poverty.
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  Network 2002 Newsletter

  Earth Summit 2002, 1999

  Monthly newsletter being produced in the lead up to the Earth Summit 2002. Current issue in text format, back issues in PDF format.
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  Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the World Food Summit Plan of Action (FAO)

  World Food Summit, FAO, 1999
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  Forests, famine and war: the key to Cambodia's future

  Global Witness, 1995

  Global Witness' first report, which reveals the architects and beneficiaries of Cambodia's timber trade, including the Royal Government of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge, and which shows that these two groups, who at the time were at war, often work in tandem
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  Plan of Action for People's Participation in Rural Development, FAO

  People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions, 1999
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  Decentralization in Chile (Stewart / Ranis / UNDP)

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1999
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  What makes a local organisation robust?: evidence from India and Nepal (ODI Natural Resource Perspectives)

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999

  The move towards decentralisation of resource control and management promises more efficient, equitable and sustainable resource use. Debate centres on what type of institutional arrangement in a given context is most appropriate and will lead to the fulfilment of the above ideal. Aspects of these arrangements include property rights structures as well as organisational structures.

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