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  Strengthening the foundations for growth and private sector development: investment climate and infrastructure development

  Development Committee, World Bank & IMF, 2004

  This note provides a brief overview of recent findings on the quality of the investment climate and policy effort, as well as on infrastructure service provision, which are informing the World Bank.Recent findings include:A good part of practical pro-poor growth policies is about bringing a better investment climate to areas where poor people liveSmaller and informal firms and farms
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  Peasant and the liberalization of agriculture in Indonesia

  Development Fund, Norway, 2003

  This paper examines the process of agricultural liberalization in Indonesia, developing wider implications for the countryside peasants who makes up an estimated 70% of the population and are heavily involved in agriculture.
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  Transportation in developing countries: greenhouse gas scenarios for Chile

  Programa de Gestion y Economia Ambiental, Chile, 2001

  Chile is a lightly populated country of 15 million that has undergone large economic transformations. Over the past 25 years, the economy has evolved from a slow-growing state-directed economy into a fast growing, market-oriented economy. Its South American neighbours are imitating this transformation.
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  U.S. approaches for integration of climate change policies and development assistance

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004

  The USAID approach to addressing climate change through its development assistance programmes is set out in this paper.
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  Political institutions, policymaking processes, and policy outcomes in Mexico

  Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Mexico, 2004

  This paper uses a transaction-costs framework to link the processes by which policies are made with the outer features of public policies in Mexico.
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  Anti poverty or anti poor?: the Millennium Development Goals and the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger

  Focus on the Global South, 2003

  Following an Asian-Pacific regional forum on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, this dossier contains the discussion paper and the statement that form the output of the Forum as well as a compilation of relevant analyses and experience contributed by some of the participants as well as others in the regional civil society.
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  The use of science in UK international development policy

  UK Parliament, 2004

  This inquiry examines how science and technology are informing decisions on the spending of the aid budget, how research is being used to underpin policy making in international development, and how the UK is supporting science and technology in developing countries.It highlights the importance of technology and science as a tool for development.
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  Turning off the taps: donor conditionality and water privatisation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

  ActionAid International, 2004

  This paper examines the long-standing trend of international aid donors to demand that recipient countries privatise basic services and liberalise economies. These demands have been enforced through donor conditionality.
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  Energy sustainability for South Africa’s poor: weighing up the alternatives

  Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2002

  This paper describes the energy use of poor households in South Africa, outlines governmental and other initiatives towards improving energy access in the country, and comments on key elements that must be included in such programmes for improved energy access to contribute to sustainable development.Its findings include that:poor households tend to use multiple sources of energy, and d
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  Fitting the pieces together: a composite view of government’s strategy to assist the unemployed in South Africa 1994 - 2004

  Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2004

  The objective of this paper is to construct an overview of the South African government’s strategy to assist the unemployed and to examine what shifts and changes this strategy reveals over time.

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