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  Protecting the Poor During Adjustment (World Bank)

  HNPFLASH, 1999
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  The ecoregional factor: new perspectives on malnutrition and poverty (HCD Dissemination Note)

  HNPFLASH, 1995

  This exploratory research provides strong initial evidence of the linkages between the natural environment, socioeconomic factors and the incidence of malnutrition and poverty. Exploitation of these linkages has the potential to improve both targeting and interventions against malnutrition endemic in so many areas.
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  Decentralization in Chile (Stewart / Ranis / UNDP)

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1999
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  Promoting food security in Rwanda through sustainable agricultural productivity: meeting the challenges of population pressure, land degradation and poverty (MSU)

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1999
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  What makes a local organisation robust?: evidence from India and Nepal (ODI Natural Resource Perspectives)

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999

  The move towards decentralisation of resource control and management promises more efficient, equitable and sustainable resource use. Debate centres on what type of institutional arrangement in a given context is most appropriate and will lead to the fulfilment of the above ideal. Aspects of these arrangements include property rights structures as well as organisational structures.
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  The benefits of growth for Indonesian workers

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  Does improving the conditions of workers in Indonesia require government interventions?Indonesia's rapid, broadly based pattern of growth has led to a spectacular reduction in poverty in the past 25 years.
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  Did external barriers cause the marginalization of Sub-Saharan Africa in world trade?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  Sub-Saharan African countries' policies contributed more to that region's 30 year decline in world trade than did OECD trade barriers, but policy options available to the OECD countries could improve the environment for African exports.
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  Where has all the education gone?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  How to explain the surprising finding that more education did not lead to faster economic growth?Cross national data on economic growth rates show that increases in educational capital resulting from improvements in the educational attainment of the labor force have had no positive impact on the growth rate of output per worker.In fact, contends Pritchett, the estimated impact of growth of h
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  Rural poverty in Ecuador : a qualitative assessment

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  This report aims to assess what poverty means to marginalized rural families, what kind of survival strategies families use in times of hardship, and what these families believe is needed to alleviate their poverty.
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  Equity and growth in developing countries : old and new perspectives on the policy issues

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  There is no intrinsic trade-off between long run aggregate economic growth and overall equity.

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