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  Community based rural development: reducing rural poverty from the ground up

  Rural Development Strategy Team, World Bank, 2001

  This article investigates Community Based Rural Development, which is an approach to reducing rural poverty that promotes collective action by communities and puts them in control of development interventions by making community based organizations (CBOs) driving forces in the process.Conclusions:CBOs directly manage most project resources.
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  Enhancing the private sector contribution to post-war recovery in poor countries:part 1:comparative analysis

  Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2000

  Violent conflict has become more frequent in developing countries in the last two decades, and international support for peace making has become more important. Yet, post-war reconstruction in these countries has proven to be difficult and prolonged despite high levels of foreign aid.
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  Africans query World Bank, IMF governance mantra

  Bretton Woods Project, 2001

  This article discusses the recent trip of President James Wolfensohn and IMF Managing Director Horst Koehler to Mali and Tanzania to meet 22 African leaders in February. The theme of their visit was discussions concerning good governance.Ironically, the efforts to listen to civil society groups directly were minimal.
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  Wheat policy reform in Egypt: adjustment of local markets and options for future reforms

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2000

  Since 1987, as part of a general shift toward a more market-oriented economy, Egypt’s wheat sector has been partially liberalized, primarily in production and trade.
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  Stimulating indigenous agribusiness development in the northern communal areas of Namibia : a concept paper

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1997

  This concept paper proposes (a) market driven farm and off-farm entrepreneurial options, that could take advantage of the existing opportunities, thus leading to the creation of indigenous oriented economic growth and (b) empowerment of the small and medium scale private enterprises to create an enabling environment conducive for equitable growth of their businesses.
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  Social funds in stabilization and adjustment programmes

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 1999

  Social Funds (SFs) have proven to be no panacea.
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  Poverty, inequality and growth in Zambia during the 1990s

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2000

  Paper reanalyses the household survey data from three out of four surveys carried out in Zambia in the 1990s, in order to chart the evolution of poverty and inequality during that decade.
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  The debt crisis in the LDCs: a case study of Tanzania

  Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania, 1998

  This article explores the current indebtedness of LDCs, policies leading to this situation, current economic difficulties arising in LDCs and policy recommendations to deal with this issue.In the mid-1980s the deteriorating financial situation in a number of LDCs reached its climax. The ability of the LDCs to service their debts weakened and most of them failed to honour their outstandings.

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