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Forest Degradation, Household Resource Use and Management Institutions: A Case Study from India
Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1998Analyses forest conservation and management, based on a recent case study in Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan, India. A number of commonly made hypotheses are questioned.DocumentMainstreaming Public Participation in Economic Infrastructure Projects
Overseas Development Institute, 1998In the last ten years, participation has become central to the social development sectors of official development assistance – smallholder agriculture, community forestry, health care, education, urban sanitation, small-scale water supplies, etc.DocumentGlobalization, Uneven Development and Poverty: Recent Trends and Policy Implications
Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 1998Paper outlines recent trends in economic growth, income distribution and poverty in the context of globalization.DocumentThe Perestroika of Aid?: New Perspectives on conditionality
Christian Aid, 1999Reviews policy arguements on conditionality and recommends and NGO standpoint. Discussed in the context of the Wolfenson/World Bank Comprehensive Development Framework.Argues that NGOs' engagement in the conditionality debate has largely focused on concerns about donors' policy prescriptions and advocating alternatives.DocumentRethinking the Causes of Deforestation: Lessons from Economic Models
World Bank Research Observer, 1999Synthesizes the results of more than 140 economic models analyzing the causes of tropical deforestation. Raises significant doubts about many conventional hypotheses in the debate about deforestation. More roads, higher agricultural prices, lower wages, and a shortage of off-farm employment generally lead to more deforestation.DocumentEngendering development
Gendernet, World Bank, 2000Draft Policy Research Report examines the conceptual and empirical links between gender, public policy, and development outcomes and demonstrates the value of applying a gender perspective to the design of development policies.The evidence presented shows that societies that discriminate by gender pay a high price in terms of their ability to develop and to reduce poverty.DocumentRome Declaration on World Food Security and the World Food Summit Plan of Action (FAO)
World Food Summit, FAO, 1999DocumentForests, famine and war: the key to Cambodia's future
Global Witness, 1995Global Witness' first report, which reveals the architects and beneficiaries of Cambodia's timber trade, including the Royal Government of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge, and which shows that these two groups, who at the time were at war, often work in tandemDocumentPlan of Action for People's Participation in Rural Development, FAO
People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions, 1999