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    Growth is good for the poor

    Economic Growth Project, World Bank, 2000
    This paper investigates the link between income of the poor and overall income (per capita GDP).
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    Increasing Seed System Efficiency in Africa: Concepts, Strategies and Issues

    Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1999
    Purpose of this paper is to provide a conceptual framework that can be used by agricultural leaders, administrators, policy makers, and seed program managers to (1) understand key factors affecting seed system development; and (2) compare organizational and institutional strategies for increasing seed system effectiveness.
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    Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook

    Poverty Reduction Strategies and PRSPs, PovertyNet, World Bank, 2001
    Developing or strengthening a poverty reduction strategy is on the agenda of about 70 low-income countries, as a requirement for receiving debt relief under the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative (HIPC) and concessional assistance from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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    Environmental change and human health in countries of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP)

    Stockholm Environment Institute, 1999
    Aims to first briefly describe the broad global, economic, political, social, institutional context in which ACP countries currently find themselves. Describes the health status and key health threats in ACP countries in an environmental context and reviews environmental developments in the region and the ways in which they are influencing health.
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    Dollars, dialogue and development: an evaluation of Swedish programme aid

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 1999
    Programme aid - that is, import support, debt relief and budget support - has constituted a considerable part of Swedish aid in the 1990's. However, the volumes of programme aid have fallen both in relative and absolute terms during this same period. Few evaluations have assessed how different modalities of programme aid further economic growth and sustainable development.
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    Trees outside forests: an essential tool for desertification control in the Sahel

    Unasylva, FAO, 2000
    This article focuses on lessons about desertification and the potential of trees as part of the solution, drawn from a specific rural situation in the Sahel, that of Keita, Tahoua Department, the Niger.
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    Accountable representation and power in participatory and decentralized environmental management

    Unasylva, FAO, 1999
    This article challenges the idea that decentralisation and participation are the means to better natural resource management. The author argues that the development of good decentralized or participatory policies depends on two central elements:locally accountable representationsignificant public powers over which the representatives have freedom of decision (i.e.
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    Rethinking the decentralisation and devolution of biodiversity conservation

    Unasylva, FAO, 1999
    This article challenges devolution and populist approaches to biodiversity conservation and forest management by examining several of the main assumptions on which they are based.The concept of partnership in conservation is based on the following, often contested,assumptions: local populations are interested and skilled in sustainable forest resource use and conservation;contempo
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    Devolution and decentralisation of forest management in Asia and the Pacific

    Unasylva, FAO, 1999
    Decentralization and devolution are dominant themes in the contemporary discussion of forest policy.
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    Godsend, sleight of hand or just muddling through: joint water and forest management in India

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2000
    This paper lays out the complex politics underpinning joint management and identifies the potential for, and route towards more, if gradual, decentralisation in the future.The paper draws the following conclusions: Conventional analyses of joint management are rooted in organisational theory; their apolitical character severely limits their explanatory powerJoint management arrange

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