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  Aspects of labour in an agro-pastoral economy: the northern Beja of Sudan

  Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1990

  This paper discusses for the case of the Beja agro-pastoral society, the interconnections between different aspects of labour, which include techniques of production, division of labour by gender and age, paid labour and labour migration, and the cultural and political ramifications of different sorts of labour.
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  Rapid Economic Growth in China: Implications for the World Economy

  Brookings Institution, 1997

  Rapid growth of the Chinese economy in the past decade and its potential for strong growth into the foreseeable future have caused anxieties in the rest of the world. Some commentators see Chinese growth wholly in terms of competition for trade and investment opportunities with other developing economies and a major cause of structural adjustments in the advanced industrialized economies.
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  The impact of trade liberalisation on income distribution in China

  National Centre for Development Studies, Australia, 1997

  While poverty has been declining with strong income growth, China’s income distribution has deteriorated in recent years. Trade policy has been advocated to address income disparities, especially those between rural and urban households. Using a computable general equilibrium model, this paper analyses the impact of trade policy on imcomes of different households.
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  Social Dimensions of Adjustment:World Bank Experience, 1980-93

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995

  The principal message of this study is that good macroeconomic policies and measures—combined with relevant sectoral policies and appropriate public expenditure allocation—provide a favorable environment for accelerating savings and investment, both necessary for sustained economic growth and poverty reduction (Figure 1).
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  Indonesia's rural finance system: the role of the state and private institutions

  Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1998

  Study analyses how effectively organizations have performed their role as agents of Indonesia’s economic growth (availability of resources, volume and quality of investments, resource allocation and appropriation).
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  Struggles of Access to land. The 'Squatter Question' in Coastal Kenya

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  In Kenya and the sub-Saharan Africa generally, there have been little systematic discussions on the post-colonial struggles over control and ownership of land. Studies ignore that the "land question" is not about production alone and consequently have failed to assess its wider consequences on the society.
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  Employment, Labor Markets, and Poverty in Ghana: A Study of Changes during Economic Decline and Recovery

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997

  An awareness on the part of policymakers that the formal sector is only a small part of Ghana's labor market is a necessary precondition of appropriate employment policy.
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  Inequality and the Emergence of Non-farm Employment in Rwanda

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1997

  Examines the structure of income inequality among farm households in Rwanda. Specifically, it focuses on inequalities rooted in the distribution of and holdings and on the attendant polarization of relatively large landholders who tend to hire agricultural wage labor, on the one hand, and near-landless householders who provide this wage labor, on the other.
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  Environment benefits from removing trade restrictions and distortions: background for WTO negotiations

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  The interaction between environmental policies and trade policies emerged as an issue at the end of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in 1994.
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  The Poor and their Money: what have we learned?

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  Money markets ought to allocate finance where it is most needed, and thus contribute to greater productivity, employment and the reduction of poverty. Yet in practice they have not performed this function at all well. Vast segments of the population are still unserved, inappropriate financial services are offered and inflexible contracts are extended.

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