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    Would the right tariff aggregator please stand up?

    Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1997
    The conventional use of import weighted averages in tariff aggregation has little theoretical basis. We build on the Anderson-Neary Trade Restrictiveness Index (TRI) and define ways in which a detailed set of tariffs may be aggregated consistently for use in a computable general equilibrium model.
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    How Rural Market Imperfections Shape the Relation Between Farm Size and Productivity: a General Framework and an Application to Pakistani Data

    Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1996
    The subject of this article is the alleged inverse relationship between farm size and productivity in developing countries. The recent controversy is reviewed, and a framework is provided to explain the inverse relationship based on plausible assumptions about imperfections in the markets for labor, credit and land. On this basis testable hypotheses are derived.
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    World Labour Report 1997-98: Industrial relations, democracy and social stability

    International Labour Organization, 1999
    The summary and statistical appendix of this report are available on WWW.
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    World Economic Outlook: May 1998: Financial Crises: Causes and Indicators

    International Monetary Fund, 1998
    Biannual assessment of global economic prospects. This issue deals extensively with the causes and projected consequences of the 1997/8 financial turmoil in East Asia.Includes a statistical appendix.
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    Stock Markets, Banks, and Economic Growth

    Economic Growth Project, World Bank, 1996
    Dataset available onlineDo well-functioning stock markets and banks promote long-run economic growth? This paper shows that stock market liquidity and banking development both positively, predict growth, capital accumulation, and productivity improvements when entered together in regressions, even after controlling for economic and political factors.
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    Life during growth

    Economic Growth Project, World Bank, 1997
    Working paper and datasetThe progress of life during growth is surprisingly uneven. This paper reaches this conclusion with a panel dataset of 95 indicators covering up to 4 time periods (1960, 1970, 1980, and 1990).
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    Indigenous Soil Classifications: What are their structure and function, and how do they compare with scientific soil classifications?

    International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences, 1994
    Focuses on two themes in the study of ethnopedology: (1) the hows and whys of indigenous soil classifications. (2) the differences and overlaps between indigenous soil classifications and western soil classifications. Aims to come to a synthesis of how to link the two sources of information to improve the success of cooperation in sustainable agricultural development.
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    Using indigenous knowledge, remote sensing and GIS for sustainable development

    Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1994
    Information describing the natural resources of any region (e.g. soil, water and vegetation) forms the base upon which sustainable development must be built. The twin challenges of providing information that can lead to sustainable development are to keep acquisition costs low and utility high.
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    Integrating peasant knowledge and geographic information systems : a spatial approach to sustainable agriculture

    Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1997
    Starting with a discussion of the scientific versus the traditional methods of land evaluation and perception, the authors formulate a methodological framework to integrate both perspectives into a geographic-information/expert-system environment aimed at sustainable development of a rural community, and present a case study in Central Mexico.
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    Development indicators: a working of indicators of development progress

    Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1998
    Set of indicators agreed by UN, World Bank and the OECD. WWW site explains the core set of indicators that will be used - at a global level - to monitor performance and adjust development strategies as required. These give an integrated world view of human well-being in its economic, social and environmental aspects.

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