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  Public choices between lifesaving programs : how important are lives saved?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Do funding priorities for health and safety policies reflect irrational fears the "disaster of the month" rather than address more fundamental problems?
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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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  Are stable agreements for sharing international river waters now possible?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Proposed here is a new scheme for allocating international river water that accounts for the stochastic nature of water supply and the dynamic nature of its demand.
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  Does decentralization increase spending on public infrastructure?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Decentralization tends to increase both total and subnational spending on public infrastructure.
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  Roads, lands, markets, and deforestation: a spatial model of land use in Belize

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Will intensifying the road network around market areas produce greater economic returns and less environmental damage than extending the road network into new areas?Rural roads promote economic development but also facilitate deforestation.
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  Decentralising Aid and its Management in Uganda: Lessons for Capacity-building at the Local Level

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 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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  Is there an optimal structure for decentralized provision of roads?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  Generally, local maintenance of roads is more efficient than centrally controlled maintenance. For road construction, contracting procedures and competitive bidding are more important than issues of decentralization.
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  How prices and macroeconomic policies affect agricultural supply and the environment

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  There is clearly a link between agricultural incentives and the environment, but quantitative data on such topics as soil quality and land use are inadequate for sound analysis.Mamingi studies the literature on how agricultural prices and macroeconomic policies affect agricultural supply and how that supply affects the environment.
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  Agriculture and the policy environment: Zambia and Zimbabwe: political dreams and policy nightmares

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  The paper examines the effect of differing policies in the post-independence period on the agricultural and overall economic performance of Zambia and Zimbabwe. It focuses on the interaction between macroeconomic and agricultural policy reforms. It shows that macro and micro reforms need to be closely linked and that both are critical to sectoral performance.

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