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  Meeting the HIV/AIDS challenge to food security: the role of labour saving technologies in farm-households

  HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 2002

  This paper is based on the premise that one of the promising strategies for response from the agriculture sector to the impacts on labour is to identify the roles for labour saving technologies (LSTs) not only in mitigation, but also as part of prevention.
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  The economics of the “non-market economy” issue: Vietnam catfish case study

  Mekong Economics Ltd., Hanoi, Vietnam, 2003

  The market/non-market economy distinction evolved during a time in which there was a clear divide between economies pursuing market-based economic and economies which were primarily centrally-planned.This paper:considers the concept of a non-market economy from a broad economic perspective as well as from the more narrow definition related to anti-dumpinganalyses the US Department o
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  An audit of the livestock marketing status in Kenya, Ethiopia and Sudan: Volume II: issues and proposed measures

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2002

  This paper constitutes the second and final part of the livestock marketing status audit carried out in Kenya, Ethiopia and Sudan.
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  An audit of the livestock marketing status in Kenya, Ethiopia and Sudan: Volume I

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2002

  This paper is the first volume in a comparative study of how livestock markets function in Kenya, Ethiopia and Sudan. The study’s aim is to identify the key constraints and potentials in the systems operating in these countries and to develop a regional livestock marketing program to redress some of the key constraints identified.
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  Rural poverty in Latin America

  1999

  This paper argues that rural poverty in Latin America is a product of the system of labor controls and in particular of the monopsonistic control of the labour force exercised by large landowners in small, fragmented local markets.
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  A primer on macroeconomic forecasting and policy evaluation models

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2002

  This paper is prompted by renewed interests in the development of a regional forecasting and policy evaluation model at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).
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  Structural damage: the causes and consequences of Malawi’s food crisis

  World Development Movement, 2002

  This report from WDM details IMF enforced policies which it claims have undermined Malawi’s ability to feed its people.
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  Poverty – wellbeing: an orientation, learning and working tool for fighting poverty

  Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2000

  The purpose of this orientation, learning and working tool is to provide an additional bridge between the problems of poverty and the SDC’s PEMT instruments.
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  Market institutions, transaction costs, and social capital in the Ethiopian grain market

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001

  Looks at how brokerage institutions minimize the transaction costs and facilitate exchange within the liberalized grain market in Ethiopia.
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  The benefits of roads in rural Peru: a transaction costs approach

  Grupo de Analisis para el Desarrollo, Peru, 2001

  This study assesses factors of market access for poor farmers in rural Peru.In particular, it evaluates the role of key public assets like rural roads in reducing transaction costs and thus in improving the incomes of rural households.The study shows that an improved rural road system would lower transaction costs and substantially improve the incomes of the rural poor in Peru.The main re

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