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  The Aga Khan Rural Support Program: A Third Evaluation

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995

  AKRSP, in its thirteenth year of operation, continues to be an effective instrument to improve community productivity and family welfare in Pakistan's Northern Areas and Chitral. Improvements have resulted from the program's interventions in productive investments, in production-support investments, such as access roads, in training, and in financial and technical services.
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  Empowerment as an approach to poverty

  Global Reproductive Health Forum, 1999

  This paper seeks to clarify the role of empowerment in anti-poverty policies by addressing the following questions: what is empowerment and how does it relate to participation and botom-up approaches? why is empowerment a useful concept when addressing poverty? what are the potential and pitfalls of an approach based on empowerment?
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  Electronic Learning Guidebook on Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM)

  World Bank Institute, World Bank, 1998

  Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM) refers to the involvement of irrigation users in all aspects of irrigation management, and at all levels. This electronic learning guidebook is a self-paced learning tool for acquiring knowledge about PIM and how to implement and promote PIM at the country level.
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  The Alexandria Business Association Small and Microenterprise Project, Egypt

  Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1988

  This case study is designed to go behind the financial data (which show that ABA is indeed moving to financial sustainability) and place the project within the culture of the microfinance world as presently constituted.
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  Cost Benefit Analysis of Private Sector Environmental Investments: A Case Study of the Kunda Cement Factory

  International Finance Corporation, 1999

  Considers the case of a cement plant in Estonia and tries to answer the question: how do the (private) costs of curbing pollution compare to the (social) benefits to the population? While it is often easy to estimate costs, it is exceedingly difficult to capture the benefits, especially in developing and transition countries.
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  The Information Society and Development: the Role of the European Union

  Information Society Project Office, EU, 1997

  Recent trends towards the information society potentially concern most human activities, including learning, communication, work and leisure. This applies equally to the developing countries, notwithstanding the diversity of their market situations, policies or technological capacities.
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  Tanzanian Local Administration: A Vehicle for Democratic Development?

  Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, 1998

  Argues that the role of local government administratorsis a crucial one. If the administrators are well motivated, the administration is able to function properly, even when the resources are limited. If the administrators are not given incentives and recognition, their work is likely to develop towards a counterproductive direction.
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  The Importance of the Local Government in the Management of the Costal Line in Chile: The case of the Sixth Region

  International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 1998

  Paper on the legal and policy issues relating to the integrated management of the coastal area of Chile.
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  Mexican Local Government in Transition, Fleeting Changes or Permanent Transformation?

  International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 1998

  In recent years, several innovation processes have taken place within Mexican Local Government: in the leadership style of mayors, in social participation mechanisms, in intergovernmental relations, and in public management systems. These changes have led to an improvement in governmental performance and opening up and democratisation of the system of local governance.
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  Where is Local Government Going in Latin America?: a comparative perspective

  International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 1998

  A major process of decentralisation has been under way in Latin America since the mid-1980s. The reasons for it have been extensively debated. The main features of this process, including greater formal political autonomy for and financial strengthening of local government, as well as the transfer of competencies from central to local government, have also been widely discussed.

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