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Searching with a thematic focus on Agriculture and food, Governance, Environmental protection natural resource management

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  Situation and prospects for forest conservation and development: FAO State of the World's Forests 1997: Part 1

  State of the World's Forests, FAO, 1999
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  National Forestry Action Programmes (NFAP) as tools for sustainable forest management (Clement / Unasylva)

  Unasylva, FAO, 1999
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  Agricultural and rural development policy in Latin America: new directions and new challenges (de Janvry / Sadoulet / Key)

  Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Berkeley, 1999
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  Indigenous knowledge of the rainforest: perception, extraction and conservation (Ellen / CSAC)

  Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, Kent, 1999
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  The nature of the human threat to Papua New Guinea's biodiversity endowment (Filer / CSAC)

  Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, Kent, 1999
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  The situation of indigenous peoples in tropical forests (Bahuchet / FTRP / APFT)

  Future of Tropical Rainforest Peoples, 1999
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  Is there a commercial case for tropical timber certification?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Timber certification is not expected to provide significant commercial benefits to developing countries in the near future.
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  The evolution of central banking

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  What have we learned about central banks? The principal factors affecting central bank autonomy in the past two centuries have been prevailing political conditions, a laissez faire environment, and the exchange rate regime (whether fixed or floating).Institutions we know as central banks emerged or were established as commercial banks or government banks.
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  Rural finance for growth and poverty alleviation in Pakistan

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  To promote agricultural --- and hence economic --- growth, Pakistan must make more credit available to agricultural smallholders, the rural non farm sector, and women. Subsidizing interest rates is not the way to help marginal borrowers.
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  Debt Relief for Low-Income Countries and the HIPC Initiative

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997

  Since the onset of the debt crisis in the early 1980s, many heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs), continue to have difficulty in paying their external debt-service obligations, largely because of exogenous factors, imprudent debt-management policies, and the lack of sustained adjustment or implementation of structural reforms.

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