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    Chronic poverty and remote rural areas

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2002
    Successive policy approaches have failed to relieve long-term poverty among people living in remote rural areas (RRAs). This working paper from the Chronic Poverty Research Centre looks at the factors that hamper poverty reduction in these areas. It argues that development approaches that have worked elsewhere cannot always be transposed to remote areas.
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    Extension, poverty and vulnerability: the scope for policy reform. Final Report of a study for the Neuchatel Initiative

    Overseas Development Institute, 2002
    This paper reviews pro-poor agricultural extension policies, building on an earlier inception report of the same study. Based on a livelihoods approach, the authors argue that policies towards agriculture, rural development and extension have focused exclusively on increased productivity of land, as opposed to enhancing labour productivity, employment creation and vulnerability reduction.
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    Can local institutions reduce poverty?: rural decentralization in Burkina Faso

    World Bank, 2001
    This paper argues that in Burkina Faso certain high-performing local institutions contribute to equitable economic development. They link reduced levels of poverty and inequality to a high degree of internal village organization.
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    Livelihoods and rural poverty reduction in Malawi

    Overseas Development Group, East Anglia University (UEA) School of Development Studies, 2002
    This paper takes a critical view of the PRSP and decentralisation processes in Malawi based on investigations of rural livelihoods in eight villages in the Dedza and Zomba districts. The paper finds that rural Malawians confront multiple severe constraints including:

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