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  Land Reform, Poverty Reduction and Growth: Evidence from India

  Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, 1998

  In recent times there has been a renewed interest in relationships between redistribution, growth and welfare. Land reforms have been central to strategies to improve the asset base of the poor in developing countries thought their effectiveness has been hindered by political constraints on implementation.
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  A Framework for Regulating Microfinance Institutions

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Is there a need to regulate microfinance institutions? If so, what activities should be regulated? Who should regulate them? And what issues are fundamental to the sector's regulation?The continuum of institutions providing microfinance cannot develop fully without a regulatory environment conducive to their growth.
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  Instability of National Agricultural Research Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Nigeria

  International Service for National Agricultural Research, 1998

  NARS leaders and managers are concerned not only with procuring an adequate level of resources, but also about the stability of resources and institutional sustainability. This ground-breaking research examines six types of instability affecting agricultural research in developing countries: policy, program, institutional, funding, research staff, and governance instability.
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  Caribbean Labour Statistics

  International Labour Organization Caribbean Office and Multidisciplinary Advisory Team (CAMAT), 1999

  "Contains statistical information on the characteristics of the labour force, employed and unemployed persons, wages/incomes, industrial injuries, industrial disputes, collective agreements, employers' and workers' organizations, vocational training, labour costs, work permits, social security as well as key economic and demographic indicators for 20 countries in the region."
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  Business services in the Globalizing African economies

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Discusses the role of business services in the economy in general and especially in the low-income African economies. At the global level large transnational business service firms are developing global service networks linking the world’s large cities together and serving especially the large transnational companies, but apparently largely by-passing Africa.
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  Microdeterminants of Consumption, Poverty, Growth, and Inequality in Bangladesh

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  What are the gains from a better education, more land ownership, or a different occupation in Bangladesh? Do the gains differ in urban and rural areas? Have they remained stable over time? Do household size, family structure, and gender affect well-being?
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  Economic Policy Reform and Growth Prospects in Emerging Africa Economies

  OECD Development Centre, 1999

  Assesses the prospects for growth of African economies up to the year 2010 by modelling structural and policy determinants of growth, under different scenarios for changes in the exogenous factors and economic policies which shape the projections. To this end we estimate a growth model for 39 African economies, during seven five-year periods from 1960 through 1995.
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  Multinational Comparisons of Health Care Expenditures, Coverage, and Outcomes [OECD countries]

  Commonwealth Fund, USA, 1998

  Series of statistical charts and textual overview, relating to OECD countries
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  Micro-macro linkages in financial markets: the impact of financial liberalisation on access to rural credit in four African countries

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 1999

  Almost every programme of economic reform contains a financial liberalisation component; but little work has been done to assess the effects of financial liberalisation on access to credit in individual markets.
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  The Performance and Sustainability of Two Philippine Microfinance Institutions

  Banking with the Poor Network, 1998

  Reviews the performance and sustainability of two Philippine NGOs that have not reached the scale of the more renowned models. These are the Alalay sa Kaunlaran sa Gitnang Luzon, Inc (ASKI) and the Kabalikat para sa Maunlad na Buhay, Inc (KMBI).

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