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Practical Action to Eliminate Child Labour: background paper for International Child Labour Conference (Oslo)
International Labour Organization, 1997DocumentFrom Dutch disease to deforestation - a macroeconomic link? A case study from Ecuador
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997In 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.DocumentDecentralization, Local Governance and The Democratic Transition in Southern Africa: A Comparative Analysis
African Studies Quarterly, 1997This paper reports the results of a 1995-1996 comparative analysis of local government in the context of current political reforms in South Africa, Botswana, and Swaziland in an effort to arrive at the preconditions for efficient and effective local institutions of collective choice and of service delivery.DocumentAn 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/DepartmentDocumentCoping with uncertainty - Petty producers in postwar Mozambique
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998Since the early 1990s, Mozambican society has undergone significant changes. The Peace Accord in 1992 enabled demobilisation of most former soldiers and repatriation of almost two million refugees from the neighbouring countries, and the Government has launched an extensive programme of market-oriented reform and political reconciliation.DocumentThe impact of HIV/AIDS on farming households in the Monze District of Zambia
Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997This paper focuses on how HIV/AIDS undermines household responsiveness to cope with crises, such as new agricultural policy reforms, HIV/AIDS, years of drought, and death of cattle. It uses a collection of 32 household case-studies. It investigates how caring for a chronically ill family member impinges on household production and alters labour allocation between genders and generations.DocumentBusiness development, social security or patronage? Zambia’s Agricultural Credit Management Programme.
Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997The 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).DocumentEconomic and social components of migration in two regions of Southern Province, Zambia
Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997Paper addresses the migration process in the Zambia's Southern Province. Until recently when droughts and cattle diseases have begun to plague the area, Southern Province was known for its ideal farming conditions.DocumentAgricultural change under structural adjustment and other shocks in Zambia
Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997The agricultural sectors of many economies in Sub-Saharan Africa have been profoundly affected by policy changes comprising part of the wider process of structural adjustment. Government controls on exchange rates, interest rates, farm inputs and crop output prices have been liberalized.Pages