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  Globalization, Equity, and Poverty: The South Asian Experience

  Global Development Network, 2002

  Has globalisation in South Asian countries increased their rate of economic growth, reduced absolute poverty, and/or increased inequality?
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  Partnership in enhancing the process of globalization for reducing poverty

  Global Development Network, 2001

  Are partnership or non partnership patterns better at promoting agricultural technologies? This paper attempts to answer this question by studying partnership and non-partnership of the government (GO), non-government (NGO), and private (PO) organizations.
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  A Study of Technological Change in the Small Enterprises of a Developing Economy: Analytical Framework and Empirical Examination

  Global Development Network, 2002

  What firm level processes of diffusion of new technologies are there for small enterprises in a developing economy?
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  The Differential Impact of Japanese and U.S. Foreign Direct Investments on Exports of Indian Manufacturing

  Global Development Network, 2001

  One of the most fiercely debated issues in the literature of development economics is the role played by the inward foreign direct investment in export performance of developing countries. This study aims to find whether FDI from different source countries have differential impact on the exports of Indian industries.
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  The informal sector in Asia from the decent work perspective

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This paper looks at recent trends in the informal economy in Asia. It highlights the differential impact of the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s.
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  Supporting workers in the informal economy: a policy framework

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This paper argues that the informal economy is here to stay and requires appropriate regulations, laws and policies to correct biases in the existing regulatory, legal, and policy environment that favour formal enterprises and workers to the disadvantage of informal workers and enterprises.
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  Backward and forward linkages that strengthen primary education

  Indiasocial.org, 2003

  This is an overview of a collection of 10 case studies on backward and forward linkages that strengthen primary education.The case studies describe efforts, both voluntary and governmental, to address the reasons that specific groups and communities stay away from education.
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  Traning course for the 100% condom use programme

  World Health Organization, 2002

  This is a manual for programme managers who wish to implement the 100% condom use programme (CUP) for female sex workers.
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  Peacebuilding: lessons for Afghanistan

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2002

  This report examines lessons from previous peacebuilding efforts in Afghanistan, and from other countries, in order to highlight issues of central relevance for the present phase of peacebuilding and economic recovery.The report consists of two papers commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It argues that the most promising strategy is to strengthen national institutions.
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  Sustaining local level development: what worked and what did not: lessons from the phasing-out of Norwegian aid to the Hambantota Integrated Rural Development Programme (HIRDEP), Sri Lanka 1992-1999

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2003

  This paper examines what happens when funding for a project reaches its phase-out stage and the project must stand alone. It summarises the main experiences and lessons from twenty years of the Hambantota Integrated Rural Development Programme (HIRDEP), with a focus on the last phase from 1992 to 1999.Findings include:the phasing-out did not go as initially planned.

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