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    Saving in transition economies : the summary report

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    Savings in transition economies have declined since independence, but something else has happened, too: Financial assets have shifted from bank deposits to alternative financial instruments, including foreign currency, "trust company" shares, and private loans.
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    Workers in transition

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    The outlook is bright for transition economies that are fully embracing market based reform, including appropriate, coherently applied labor policies. In other transition economies, a mix of paternalism and populism could produce partial, timid reform that makes them increasingly unproductive and corrupt.
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    The Polish experience with bank and enterprise restructuring

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
    Poland's program tackled simultaneously bank and enterprise restructuring and dealt decisively with the bad debt stock and flow problem with measures to improve incentives and institutional skills. Among transition economies, Poland was a pioneer in bank and enterprise restructuring.
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    Danish Development Cooperation with India - in a Poverty Reduction Perspective

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    The paper gives an overview of Denmark's official development cooperation with India, viewed from a poverty reduction perspective. It is one of the products of a research project, entitled 'Comparative Study of European Aid for Poverty Reduction in India', carried out in 1997 by a group of four European and eleven Indian researchers.
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    Agricultural policy in Africa after adjustment

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 2000
    This study looks at agricultural policy in Africa since structural adjustment, with the aim of drawing conclusions about policies for the post-adjustment era.The study suggests that while some of the changes brought about under agricultural structural adjustment go too far, in many other respects they do not go far enough.
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    Year 2000 country profile: the status of Tanzania with the IMF and the World Bank

    Globalization Challenge Initiative, 2000
    Globalization Challenge Initiative (GCI) publishes the SAP Information Alert Series in order to promote informed debate about IMF and World Bank-financed operations, including the potential political, economic, social and environmental consequences of sectoral and strucural adjustment programs.
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    Paths out of poverty: the role of private enterprise in developing coutries

    International Finance Corporation, 2000
    This article emphasises that private enterprises are essential in allowing the poor to escape poverty, and looks at which conditions encourage or discourage private firms from doing business in poorer countries.Key conditions are: the state can secure contract enforcement between private parties and between private parties and the state—most basically, clearly defined property rights.
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    Pakistan's debt position and the question of debt retirement

    Jubilee Research, 2001
    This article explores Pakistan's debt, its crippling debt repayments and the conditionalities enforced by IMF and World Bank on Pakistan. Some of these conditionalities include:bring about structural adjustments in the economy of Pakistanreduction of budget deficits at federal and provincial levelswide spread economic reforms in Pakistan.
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    Telecenters for socioeconomic and rural development in Latin America and the Caribbean

    2001
    Examines some of the main telecentre experiments in Latin America (especially Central America and the Caribbean). Survey results provide a characterisation of users; help identify the main uses of cabinas and their needs; and perceived notions as to the quality of service received.
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    Encouraging Sustainable Smallholder Agriculture in Southern Africa in the Context of Agricultural Services Reform

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998
    Summarises 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.

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