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    Forests in Sustainable Development: guidelines for forest sector development cooperation

    European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 1998
    Paper defines a strategy for forest sector development, and translates it for practical application. In response to the causes of deforestation and desertification, which are rooted in a complex web of socio-economic factors (both inside and, mainly, outside the forests) these guidelines are centred on the needs of people living in and making a living from forests.
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    Poverty alleviation in Vietnam

    Micro Impacts of Macroeconomic and Adjustment Policies Programme, 1998
    Research project analysing the impacts of macroeconomic adjustment in the last few years in Vietnam on macroeconomic indicators and micro units – firm and household.WWW site has detailed results from the project and its surveys. Includes statistical indicators and poverty line data.
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    The New 'Knowers' of West Africa. Muslims, Education and Social Change. A commentated bibliography.

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    Bibliography presents summaries of and comments on eight different texts, each providing important contributions to the subject of Muslims, education and social change in West Africa.
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    Debt Relief for Tanzania: An opportunity for a better future

    Oxfam, 1998
    The Tanzanian Government has committed itself to a long-term strategy aimed at eradicating poverty by 2025. Sectoral plans have been drawn up aimed at achieving progress towards universal primary education and the expansion of basic health services. Encouraging as such moves are, they are unlikely to succeed unless Tanzania's creditors act swiftly to reduce the country's massive debt burden.
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    Danish Aid Policy: Theory and Empirical Evidence

    Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1998
    Study of Danish aid policy from the early 1960s to 1995.
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    Fuelwood Consumption and Forest Degradation: A Household Model for Domestic Energy Substitution in Rural India [Rajasthan]

    Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1998
    Paper examines domestic energy supply and demand in Northwest India. A household model is set up to analyse the links between forest scarcity and household energy consumption, focusing on the substitution of fuels from the forests and commons and the private domain. The model is estimated using recently collected data from villages bordering Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan, India.
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    New Institutional Economics: A Survey of Property Rights and Natural Resource Management [case study from Rajasthan]

    Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1998
    In this paper, the results of a recent case study of forest conservation and management in Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan, India are reported. Changes in land use, grazing, household fuelwood collection and inadequate management institutions are identified as key factors causing forest degradation.
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    Asset bubbles, Leverage and ‘Lifeboats’: Elements of the East Asian crisis

    Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, 1998
    Collapsing credit markets have been blamed for the depth and persistence of the Great Depression in the USA. Could similar mechanisms have played a role in ending the East Asian economic miracle - and in creating fragility in global financial markets?
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    Economic Growth and Human Development

    Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1998
    Explores the links between economic growth and human development, identifying two chains, one from economic growth to human development, and the other, conversely, from human development to economic growth. The various links in each chain are explored, together with a review of some existing empirical material on their importance.
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    Africa's export structure in a comparative perspective

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998
    Africa's exports are concentrated on primary products, mainly unprocessed, in sharp contrast to the exports of East Asia, which consist predominantly of manufactures.

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