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  Dictatorship, democracy and institutions: macro policy in China and India

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004

  This article explores whether macroeconomic policies are influenced by the political structure. The authors compare reform period policy choices and outcomes in China and India.
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  Sieving budgets for gender

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004

  Gender budgeting exercises attempt to assess how far prevailing gender-based biases are incorporated into budgetary exercises. Such analyses also provide women with vital information regarding the contents and focus of existing government policies. The aim is to promote greater transparency and enhance democracy.
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  Small and medium enterprises, growth, and poverty: cross-country evidence

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper explores the relationship between the relative size of the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector, economic growth, and poverty using a new database on the share of SME labour in the total manufacturing labour force.The authors use a sample of 76 countries to find:there is a strong association between the importance of SMEs and GDP per capita growththis relationship, ho
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  Turning off the taps: donor conditionality and water privatisation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

  ActionAid International, 2004

  This paper examines the long-standing trend of international aid donors to demand that recipient countries privatise basic services and liberalise economies. These demands have been enforced through donor conditionality.
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  Economic reforms and development strategy in Gujarat

  Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2002

  The Gujarat state government has followed a strategy focussed on industrialisation and urbanisation with an open door policy ever since its inception in 1960. Economic reform measures at the centre with an explicit emphasis on trade and industry considerably benefited Gujarat, making its economic performance outstanding.
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  Enhancing the competitiveness and productivity of small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) in Africa: an analysis of differential roles of national governments through improved support services

  Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa, 2002

  This paper studies the role of small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) in African development, the constraints that currently hamper their ability to fulfil this role, and measures which could enhance their competitiveness and effectiveness.
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  Why budgets matter: the new agenda of public expenditure management

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This ODI briefing paper summarises the arguments for focusing on budgets and budget processes and highlights some of the main lessons from past CAPE (Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure) research. The shift from the "due process approaches" of conventional budgeting to wider public expenditure management incorporates a complex set of actors and institutions involved in the budget process.
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  Flags of inconvenience?: the Global Compact and the future of the United Nations

  Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, UK, 2004

  The Global Compact, established in 2000 in order to internalise a set of principles in global business, has attracted much criticism related to its role, effects, and accountability.
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  Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2004

  United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2004

  This report proposes that despite economic growth in the Asia and Pacific region in 2003, driven largely by intraregional trade and domestic demand, there remain many obstacles to poverty reduction in the area. The authors examine various countries' poverty reduction strategies within the Asia and Pacific region, in light of meeting the Millennium Development Goals.
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  Taking initial steps towards adaptation (DFID Key Sheet no. 9)

  Department for International Development, UK, 2004

  This key sheet is part of a series aimed at DFID staff and development partners examining the impact of climate change on poverty and exploring tools for adaptation to climate change.This key sheet considers the initial steps that developing countries can take in response to the strategic challenge of climate change.The key sheet guides the reader through the issues of:Implications f

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