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    State of the World's Children 1998

    United Nations Children's Fund, 1998
    Focuses on malnutrition. Statistical tables are inlcuded (also in Excel format)
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    Economic well-being indicators: detailed poverty data and survey

    Development Indicators, OECD/DAC, 1999
    Statstical indicators on country-level poverty. Covers: Population below the poverty line (Rural, Urban, National) and population below $1 and $2 per day. Available as tables or as Excel spreadsheets
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    OECD/DAC development indicators: guide to methodology

    Development Indicators, OECD/DAC, 1997
    Definition of the indicators selected for UN/WB/OECD use and how they were constructed.
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    Forests in Sustainable Development: guidelines for forest sector development cooperation

    European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 1998
    Paper defines a strategy for forest sector development, and translates it for practical application. In response to the causes of deforestation and desertification, which are rooted in a complex web of socio-economic factors (both inside and, mainly, outside the forests) these guidelines are centred on the needs of people living in and making a living from forests.
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    Poverty alleviation in Vietnam

    Micro Impacts of Macroeconomic and Adjustment Policies Programme, 1998
    Research project analysing the impacts of macroeconomic adjustment in the last few years in Vietnam on macroeconomic indicators and micro units – firm and household.WWW site has detailed results from the project and its surveys. Includes statistical indicators and poverty line data.
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    The New 'Knowers' of West Africa. Muslims, Education and Social Change. A commentated bibliography.

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    Bibliography presents summaries of and comments on eight different texts, each providing important contributions to the subject of Muslims, education and social change in West Africa.
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    Debt Relief for Tanzania: An opportunity for a better future

    Oxfam, 1998
    The Tanzanian Government has committed itself to a long-term strategy aimed at eradicating poverty by 2025. Sectoral plans have been drawn up aimed at achieving progress towards universal primary education and the expansion of basic health services. Encouraging as such moves are, they are unlikely to succeed unless Tanzania's creditors act swiftly to reduce the country's massive debt burden.
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    Danish Aid Policy: Theory and Empirical Evidence

    Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1998
    Study of Danish aid policy from the early 1960s to 1995.
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    Fuelwood Consumption and Forest Degradation: A Household Model for Domestic Energy Substitution in Rural India [Rajasthan]

    Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1998
    Paper examines domestic energy supply and demand in Northwest India. A household model is set up to analyse the links between forest scarcity and household energy consumption, focusing on the substitution of fuels from the forests and commons and the private domain. The model is estimated using recently collected data from villages bordering Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan, India.
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    New Institutional Economics: A Survey of Property Rights and Natural Resource Management [case study from Rajasthan]

    Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1998
    In this paper, the results of a recent case study of forest conservation and management in Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan, India are reported. Changes in land use, grazing, household fuelwood collection and inadequate management institutions are identified as key factors causing forest degradation.

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