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Fin(d)ing our way on trade and labor standards?
International Labour Organization, 2001With the impasse over whether and how to link labor standards and trade agreements stretching into its eighth year, attention has turned to "monetary assessments," or fines, as alternatives to trade sanctions.Fines have the advantage of adding "teeth" to agreements on labor standards without impeding trade and may be more palatable to developing countries than trade measures.DocumentHirschmanian themes of social learning and change
World Bank, 2001This article positions itself within the context of discussions (inspired by Albert Hirschman) about strategies of unbalanced growth in response to the postwar theories of the “big push,” development planning, and balanced growth.DocumentDecentralising Aid and its Management in Uganda: Lessons for Capacity-building at the Local Level
European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999DocumentTargeting assistance to the poor and food insecure: a literature review
The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 1995This report is a comprehensive review of the literature and summary of “targeting” programs that deliver food assistance to the poor and food insecure. It provides definitions, ra-tionales for targeting, analysis of benefits and costs (political and administrative) of various targeting mechanisms, and descriptions of targeting methods.DocumentUnited Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa: full text of Convention
Convention to Combat Desertification, 1994Full text of the Convention to Combat Desertification, which was elaborated by the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INCD) and signed in June 1994.Also available from the CCD WWW site in French and EnglishDocumentAn Assessment of European - aided Watershed Development Projects in India from the Perspective of Poverty Reduction and the poor
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998The paper assesses four Watershed Development Projects in India supported by European donors, namely Karnataka Watershed Development Project (Danida), Doon Valley Integrated Watershed Management Project (European Commission), Karnataka Integrated Watershed Management Project (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau) and Karnataka Watershed Development Project (Overseas Development Administration/DepartmentDocumentAnnual Review of Development Effectiveness (ARDE), World Bank
Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1999Report synthesizes the results of individual evaluations completed during the previous calendar year; It provides an overview of the Bank's portfolio performanceDocumentEncouraging Sustainable Smallholder Agriculture in Southern Africa in the Context of Agricultural Services Reform
Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998Summarises the results of six DFID funded country studies on encouraging sustainable agriculture in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. It emphasises the need for continuing government and donor support for sustainable increases in agricultural productivity which must underpin poverty alleviation.DocumentAssessing the Need to Manage Conflict in Community-Based Natural Resource Projects
Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998Considers the role of ‘conflict management assessment’ in community-based natural resource projects. The importance of conducting an assessment of the potential for conflict and its management in relation to a project intervention is stressed, and an assessment framework described.Pages