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  The impact of adult deaths on children's health in northwestern Tanzania

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  The AIDS epidemic is dramatically increasing mortality of adults in many Sub-Saharan African countries, with potentially severe consequences for surviving family members.
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  Education for All: a compact for Africa

  Oxfam, 1999

  Makes a case for increased/refocussed funding for primary education in Africa, for consideration at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal in April 2000.
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  Pro-poor tourism: putting poverty at the heart of the tourism agenda

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2000

  This paper examines how tourism affects the livelihoods of the poor and how positive impacts can be enhanced. In doing so, it assesses the relevance of tourism to the poverty agenda, and the factors that encourage or constrain economic participation of the poor in the industry.
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  Towards National Public Expenditure Strategies for Poverty Reduction

  Overseas Development Institute, 2000

  Sets out thinking since the Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) Iniative II linked debt relief to national poverty reduction frameworks in summer 1999 (including the requirement to draft draft comprehensive Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP)) It reviews governance conditions and budgetary processes which are likely to generate and implement national public programmes to assist the poor.
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  World Development Report on Poverty 2000/01: online debate

  Bretton Woods Project, 2000

  The Bretton Woods Project and New Policy Institute have been selected to independently run a global on-line discussion of the World Development Report 2000/01draft from 21st February to 31st March 2000. Ravi Kanbur, lead author of the WDR will respond to the final conference summary.The discussion are archived on the World Bank site
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  Evaluating the impact of development projects on poverty: a handbook for practitioners

  PovertyNet, World Bank, 2000

  Handbook seeks to provide project managers and policy analysts with the tools needed for evaluating project impact. It is aimed at readers with a general knowledge of statistics.
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  Why liberalization alone has not improved agricultural productivity in Zambia: the role of asset ownership and working capital constraints

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  In the early 1990s, Zambia initiated an ambitious program of liberalization that significantly opened the economy, shifting from a highly regulated and centralized to a more market-based and liberal economic paradigm.
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  Inflation and the Poor

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  Presents evidence that supports the view that inflation makes the poor worse off.
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  Incomes and Poverty in Rural Zimbabwe During Adjustment: The Case of Shindi Ward, Chivi Communal Area

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1999

  As the 1990s have progressed, there have been increasing concerns expressed about the effects of the structural adjustment programme in Zimbabwe, both from within and outside the country.
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  Social Impacts of Large Dams Equity and Distributional Issues

  World Commission on Dams, 2000

  Review paper focusses on the area of agreement among protagonists of dams, that is some groups of people tend to be net losers from dam projects, as they are disproportionately affected by negative effects of dams while almost excluded from access to benefits generated.The paper makes the point that equity is more concerned about protecting the poor, the vulnerable.

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