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  Demographic Change and Economic Growth in Asia

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 1999

  Examines the links between demographic change and economic growth in Asia during 1965-90. Shows that the overall rate of population growth had little effect on economic growth, but that changes in life expectancy, age structure, and population density have had a significant impact on growth rates.
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  Sources of Slow Growth in African Economies

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 1997

  Offers some econometric evidence on the sources of slow growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. The evidence suggests that the continent’s slow growth can be explained in an international cross-country framework, without the need to invoke a special explanation unique to Sub-Saharan Africa.
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  Mapping Russian Cyberspace: Perspectives on democracy and the net

  Information Technologies and Social Development Project, UNRISD, 1998

  Presents a contextualized portrait of the Russian Net—and more broadly, Russian Cyberspace—by mapping out its present contours as well as its complex origins. Aims to predict future social impactsExplores the Russian Net by mapping physical dimensions and technological characteristics: who the Net reaches and how.
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  Reconsidering the Evidence on Returns to T&V Extension in Kenya

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  The sensitivity of empirical results to potential data errors and model misspecification can yield misleading policy implications and investment signals.
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  Social Exclusion and Land Administration in Orissa, India

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Examines—from the perspective of transaction costs—factors that constrain access to land for the rural poor and other socially excluded groups in India. They find that: Land reform has reduced large landholdings since the 1950s. Medium-size farms have gained most. Formidable obstacles still prevent the poor from gaining access to land.
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  Access to Land in Rural India

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Access to land is deeply important in rural India, where the incidence of poverty is highly correlated with lack of access to land. Mearns provides a framework for assessing alternative approaches to improving access to land by India's rural poor.
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  Foreign direct investment in Africa: Performance and Potential

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 1999

  African countries have made considerable efforts over the past decade to improve their investment climate. They have liberalized their investment regulations and have offered incentives to foreign investors. More importantly, the economic performance of the region had substantially improved from the mid-1990s. However, the expected surge of FDI into Africa as a whole has not occurred.
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  National trade performance statistics

  International Trade Centre, 1998

  Data is presented by country, both in graphical and table format. Base year is 1997, with analysis of growth trends between 1993 and 1997. Shed lights on the following questions: What are the leading export products of the country concerned? How concentrated or diversified is the country's export portfolio in terms of products?
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  Geography and economic development

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1998

  Addresses the complex relationship between geography and macroeconomic growth.
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  Street Vendors in Africa: Data and Methods

  Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing, 1998

  Presents data on street vendors from several African countries and discusses the concept or definition used to identify street vendors and methods of enumeration.

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