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    Kenya: Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy 2000 - 2003

    Poverty Reduction Strategies and PRSPs, PovertyNet, World Bank, 2000
    The strategy states that the primary development goal for Kenya is to achieve a broad-based, sustainable improvement in the standards of welfare of all Kenyans. The paper stresses the role not only of Government but of the the private sector, non-governmental and community based organisations in meeting the challenge of poverty reduction.
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    Public plant breeding in an era of privatisation

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2000
    In an era of increasing privatisation, this paper examines The possibilities and limitations associated with revenue generation through public plant breedingThe opportunities for moving the products of public plant breeding through the private sectorThe need for increased contacts with, and contributions from, private research.Paper concludes the following:Increasing th
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    Adjustment debate leaves World Bank behind

    Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network, 2000
    The article explores the activities of the Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Network (SAPRIN). The main role of the SAPRIN was to to legitimize a role for citizens in economic decisionmaking and to help them mobilize to play that role effectively.
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    Agricultural change under structural adjustment and other shocks in Zambia

    Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997
    The agricultural sectors of many economies in Sub-Saharan Africa have been profoundly affected by policy changes comprising part of the wider process of structural adjustment. Government controls on exchange rates, interest rates, farm inputs and crop output prices have been liberalized.
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    The Urban Labour Market During Structural Adjustment: Ethiopia 1990-1997

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998
    Paper examines the effects of reform and structural adjustment on the urban labour market in Ethiopia using a combination of cross-section and panel data based on surveys conducted both pre- and post- reform. During this period Ethiopia has seen impressive growth in GDP but little in the way of private investment.
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    Reforming Institutions for Service Delivery: A Framework for Development Assistance with an Application to the Health, Nutrition, and Population Portfolio [of the World Bank]

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    Argues for greater "institutional pluralism" in how the World Bank does business in the infrastructure, rural, and social sectors.
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    Zambia’s Credit Management Services: micro-credit schemes for women entrepreneurs

    Africa Region Findings, World Bank, 1999
    Credit Management Services Limited (CMS) was established in 1992 as a subsidiary of Molver and Company, a Zambian accounting company.
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    Impact of Access to Credit on the Poor: Research Design and Baseline Survey for a Longitudinal Study

    Banking with the Poor Network, 1998
    Presents the baseline survey for a study of the impact of microfinance services offered by Alalay sa Kaunlaran sa Gitnang Luzon, Inc (ASKI). ASKI is a microfinance institution based in Cabanatuan City in the Philippines, and is a member of the BWTP Network.The baseline survey is the first step in a longitudinal process.
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    Impact Assessment Methodologies for Microfinance: Theory, Experience and Better Practice

    Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 1999
    Microfinance programs and institutions are increasingly important in development strategies but knowledge about their impacts is partial and contested. This paper reviews the methodological options for the impact assessment (IA) of microfinance.
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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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