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  From Dutch disease to deforestation - a macroeconomic link? A case study from Ecuador

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997

  In the literature about macroeconomics and deforestation, it is often supposed that strong foreign exchange outflows (e.g. debt service) increase deforestation, as higher poverty augments frontier migration and natural resources are squeezed to generate export revenues. This paper analyses the opposite phenomenon, i.e.
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  Supporting sustainable agriculture through extension in Asia

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997

  There are widespread concerns about the environmental impact of agricultural technologies and over the long-term sustainability of farming systems in Asia. Although the content of extension programmes includes sustainable technologies, extension approaches and methods in the public sector continue to reflect a technology transfer paradigm.
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  An Assessment of European - aided Watershed Development Projects in India from the Perspective of Poverty Reduction and the poor

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  The 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/Department
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  Business development, social security or patronage? Zambia’s Agricultural Credit Management Programme.

  Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997

  The government that took power in Zambia in 1991 faced the challenge of fulfilling its promise to liberalise the economy while at the same time preventing any further increase in poverty and consolidating its hold on power. Part of its response was the launch, in 1994, of the Agricultural Credit Management Programme (ACMP).
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  'The rich are just like us only richer?: poverty functions or consumption functions?

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995

  The concept of a poverty function is introduced, modelling the shortfall of household consumption from the poverty line as a function of reduced form determinants such as human capital and land holdings. The model is estimated using a tobit and data from Uganda.
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  Poverty and Environment: Turning the Poor into Agents of Environmental Regeneration

  Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 1998

  The poor adapt and learn to live with poverty in a variety of ways. They also try to cope with shocks from events such as droughts, floods and loss of employment. Environmental resources play a vital role in their survival strategies. As the poor depend on environmental resources, one can expect them to have a stake in their preservation. Much of the damage done to natural resources is by others.
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  India's Position on Climate Change from Rio to Kyoto: A Policy Analysis

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Policy-making analysis of actors, structures, ideas, interests and powers behind the Indian government’s national position on climate change.
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  Rural Poverty: Population Dynamics, Local Institutions and Access to Resources

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 1998

  Analyses two examples of changing institution-resource access relationships in Africa and Latin America. The Africa case (Kakamega, Western Kenya) highlights the resource endowments and problems associated with the participation of individuals in multiple institutions, whereas the Latin America case (Oaxaca, Mexico) focuses on the changes in a single institution in response to population growth.
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  General equilibrium modelling of trade and the environment / John Beghin ...[et al.]

  OECD Development Centre, 1996

  The environmental impacts of economic activity have become an increasingly urgent concern in both OECD Member countries, as well as in non-Member countries. Research in this area is still in its infancy, and the data required to buttress analytical studies is still sparse.
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  Employment Creation and Development Strategy

  OECD Development Centre, 1993

  Developing countries will account for almost all the increase in the world's labour force over the next 25 years; most countries, especially in Africa, will experience very rapid labour force growth. Labour-intensive development has been spectacularly successful in some countries and others have begun to emulate them.

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