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  Can China feed itself?: A System for Evaluation of Policy Options

  International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 1999

  Decision-support application for planners and policymakers.
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  Rates and Processes of Amazon Deforestation

  Environmental and Societal Impacts Group, 1997
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  Crop Biotechnology in Developing Countries: A Conceptual Framework for Ex Ante Economic Analyses

  Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung, Bonn, 1998

  Presents a framework within which the potential costs (including negative outcomes) and benefits of specific biotechnologies can be analysed within a developing country context.Method takes into account institutional arrangements and political support systems, and aims to support policy decision making at various stages of the technology adoption path.
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  Genetically modified crops: reporting from New Sceintist

  New Scientist, 1999

  News and feature items from the weekly journal New Scientist on GMCs
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  Insights from the District Development Project, Uganda

  United Nations Capital Development Fund, 1999

  District Development Project (DDP) Pilot was set up to support the efforts of Ugandans to eradicate poverty in rural areas through improved inclusiveness, efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability in the delivery of public goods and services.
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  Family Influences on Zimbabwean Women’ s Reproductive Decisions and their Participation in the Wider Society

  Family Health International, 1999

  Explores the roles of husbands and mothers-in-law in reproductive decision-making and women’s participation in development. It addresses the question of whether women and their families believe lower fertility should enable young mothers to engage in activity outside the domestic sphere.
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  Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Governance Programming

  Institute on Governance, 1999

  Review of experience of projects aimed at developing governance and policy-forming capacity in Africa (particularly World Bank experience).Finds that governance failures in SSA are often attributable in whole or in part to:governments’ unwillingness to make themselves accountable to the citizens they are supposed to servethe inability of citizens and of the organizations and institu
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  Green revolution technology takes root in Africa: the promise and challenge of the Ministry of Agriculture/SG2000 experiment with improved cereals technology in Ethiopia

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1999

  Examines economic benefits of introducing new technologies for maize and teff growing in Ethiopia, based on experimental projects.
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  Decentralization and corruption: evidence across Countries

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  The relationship between decentralization of government activities and the extent of rent extraction by private parties is an important element in the recent debate on institutional design.The theoretical literature makes ambiguous predictions about this relationship, and it has remained virtually unexamined by empiricists.
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  Self-Targeted Subsidies: The Distributional Impact of the Egyptian Food Subsidy System

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  Food subsidy programs are under increasing criticism in many developing countries because of their large contributions to government budget deficits.

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