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  Decentralized rural development and enhanced community participation : a casestudy from Northeast Brazil / Johan van Zyl ... [et al.]

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  The positive experience with the latest rural development intervention in Northeast Brazil suggests that rapid progress can be made if community participation is enhanced and decision making authority is decentralized to lower levels of government and other institutions.In Northeast Brazil, despite sustained efforts to reduce rural poverty and more than $3.2 billion in spending, the rural poor
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  Adjustment and poverty in Mexican agriculture: how farmers' wealth affects supply response

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  By and large, it appears that the goals of agricultural reform are being met in Mexico.
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  Promoting economic growth in Sri Lanka: lessons from East Asia

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Why, despite solid progress in human development and in the reduction of consumption poverty, has Sri Lanka's per capita income fallen far behind the dynamic East Asian economies?
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  Decentralization : the way forward for rural development?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Although decentralization initiatives have a long history, much more needs to be understood about various components of decentralization before sound advice can be given to policy makers.Special strategies are needed to address the widespread incidence of rural poverty in developing countries, but initiatives aimed at improving the rural standard of living have not consistently reduced poverty.
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  Intergovernmental fiscal relations and poverty alleviation in Viet Nam

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Key issues of intergovernmental fiscal relations arise in all three aspects of Viet Nam's poverty alleviation strategy: broad based growth, human resource development, and safety nets.
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  FAO Plan of Action for Women in Development

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999
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  Organising for a Philosophy of Internationalism and Multi-Disciplinarity in the Social Sciences: the Case of CROP, the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty

  Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, 1999
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  International Labor Standards and International Trade

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997

  This paper reviews the controversies over links between international trade and labor standards. Important groups in the rich countries have long regarded low foreign wages and poor working conditions as a threat to their own workers' living standards and as a moral outrage.
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  From Prices to Incomes: Agricultural Subsidization without Protection?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  In theory, moving from price based subsidies for agriculture to less distorted income support programs makes sense.
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  Is growth in Bangladesh's rice production sustainable?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  The current level of per capita production of rice in Bangladesh can be sustained only through increased yields of modern rice varieties.The recent growth of food grain (primarily rice) production in Bangladesh has outpaced population growth largely because of the spread of green revolution technology.

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