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  The green revolution and the growth of the informal sector in Bangladesh

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1996

  This paper is the first in a series of papers on a restudy of a village in the Barind tract of northern Bangladesh. At the time of the original study in 1975/76 boro cultivation was negligible, due to lack ofirrigation facilities. There were few job opportunities outside agriculture in the village and in the neighbouring small town.
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  The determinants of the national position of Brazil on climate change : empirical reflections

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997

  International negotiations on the Framework Convention on Climate Change have been characterized by severe polarization between developed and developing countries. The G77, led by major countries such as Brazil, India, and China, illustrated a remarkable capacity to manifest its importance in the final text of the Convention.
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  The poor relation: a political economy of the marketing chain for dagaa in Tanzania

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997

  Dagaa is the collective name in Tanzania for various types of sardine-like fish eaten in a dried form by poor and middle-income groups throughout eastern and southern Africa. This paper is a fieldwork-based case-study of the ‘commodity chain’ for dagaa.
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  Better Land Husbandry: Re-thinking approaches to land improvement and the conservation of water and soil

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997

  Soil erosion has conventionally been perceived as the chief cause of land degradation, yet the limited effectiveness and poor uptake of widely promoted physical and biological anti-erosion methods challenges this logic.
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  Decentralization and macroeconomic management

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997

  There is a vast and growing body of literature covering the potential efficiency and welfare gains from decentralization. The literature has also amply discussed the potential trade-offs between decentralization and income redistribution, as well as various mechanisms designed to attenuate these trade-offs.
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  Guatemalan Survey of Family Health (EGSF)

  RAND Center for the Study of Aging, 1999

  The Guatemalan Survey of Family Health, known as EGSF from its name in Spanish, was designed to examine the way in which rural Guatemalan families and individuals cope with childhood illness and pregnancy, and the role of ethnicity, poverty, social support and health beliefs in this process.
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  Gender sensitivity of well-being indicators

  Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1997

  In this paper, we assess the gender sensitivity of some conventional indicators of well-being in developing countries as also the relationship between poverty and the gender differential.
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  Strategies for Eliminating Child Labour: prevention, removal and rehabilitation: synthesis paper for International Child Labour Conference (Oslo)

  International Labour Organization, 1997
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  Practical Action to Eliminate Child Labour: background paper for International Child Labour Conference (Oslo)

  International Labour Organization, 1997
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  From Dutch disease to deforestation - a macroeconomic link? A case study from Ecuador

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997

  In the literature about macroeconomics and deforestation, it is often supposed that strong foreign exchange outflows (e.g. debt service) increase deforestation, as higher poverty augments frontier migration and natural resources are squeezed to generate export revenues. This paper analyses the opposite phenomenon, i.e.

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