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  Forests, famine and war: the key to Cambodia's future

  Global Witness, 1995

  Global Witness' first report, which reveals the architects and beneficiaries of Cambodia's timber trade, including the Royal Government of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge, and which shows that these two groups, who at the time were at war, often work in tandem
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  The Power of Participation

  Participation Group, IDS, 1996

  Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) has much to offer the policy-making process. It provides a way to give poor people a voice, enabling them to express and analyse their problems and priorities. Used well, it can generate important and often surprising insights which can contribute to policies which are better fitted to serving the needs of the poor.
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  Status report on participatory rural development in Pakistan's Punjab (FAO)

  People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions, 1999
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  People's Participation in Ghana: a post-project study of sustainability (FAO)

  People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions, 1999
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  Cost Sharing: Towards Sustainable Health Care in Sub-Saharan Africa

  HNPFLASH, 1996

  Short overview of World Bank experiencesIn 1987, the World Bank recommended that the principle of cost recovery be incorporated into an agenda for financing publicly provided health services in developing countries.
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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 Zimbabwe (Stewart / Klugman / Helmsing / UNDP)

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1999
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  The Pattern of Food Intake, Household Expenditures for a Rural Ethiopia: United Nations Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia (UN-EUE)

  United Nations Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia, 1999
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  Export prospects of Middle Eastern countries ; a post - Uruguay Round analysis

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  Middle Eastern countries' exports should increase by about $800 to $900 million as a result of the Uruguay Round tariff cuts. This represents an annual expansion of less than 1 percent. The projected overall gains are small because of the erosion of tariff preferences that these countries receive in OECD markets.
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  Are partner country statistics useful for estimating "missing" trade data?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Partner country statistics --- which some propose to use for approximating missing trade data --- are so unreliable and incorporate such variations that they are of limited use for general economic analysis or hypothesis testing.

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