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    Why have some Indian states done better than others at reducing rural poverty?

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    Experience in India suggests that reducing rural poverty requires both economic growth (farm and non farm) and human resource development.The unevenness of the rise in rural living standards in the various states of India since the 1950s allowed Datt and Ravallion to study the causes of poverty.They modeled the evolution of average consumption and various poverty measures using pooled state
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    Rural finance for growth and poverty alleviation in Pakistan

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    To promote agricultural --- and hence economic --- growth, Pakistan must make more credit available to agricultural smallholders, the rural non farm sector, and women. Subsidizing interest rates is not the way to help marginal borrowers.
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    The analysis of emerging policy issues in development finance : a survey of the literature

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    A survey of recent economic literature and a case for improving capacity in developing countries to monitor and analyze data on private capital flows, especially portfolio investment flows (through both debt and non debt instruments).Gooptu makes a case for improving capacity in developing countries to monitor and analyze data on private capital flows, especially portfolio investment flows (thr
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    Banking reform in transition - countries

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    The institutional capacity of banks in transition economies improves faster when a new or parallel private banking system is allowed to emerge than it does when the government tries simply to reform existing state-owned banks.
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    Poverty and inequality during structural adjustment in rural Tanzania

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    Growth attributed to structural adjustment has benefited the population generally, shifting a significant portion of the population from below the poverty line to above it.
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    How important are labor markets to the welfare of the poor in Indonesia?

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    Because poverty mainly afflicts agricultural and self-employed households in Indonesia, the most direct ways that policy can help to reduce poverty are through improving the operation of product, land, and capital markets, particularly where the regulatory environment now works to reduce farm profitability or inhibit entry to productive enterprises by the poor.
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    Determinants of public expenditure on infrastructure : transportation and communication

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    Governments that are not committed to alleviating poverty - or that are extremely committed to it - spend less from the central budget on infrastructure. Governments with only limited commitment to alleviating poverty adopt strategies to increase the productivity of the poor by investing in infrastructure.
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    Do labor market regulations affect labor earnings in Ecuador?

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
    Although Ecuador may have the most cumbersome labor market regulations in Latin America, these are not a major source of segmentation of the labor market. The reason: the benefits mandated are fully fungible with wages. Ecuadorian labor costs are said to be high because of a large array of mandated benefits.
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    Explaining Agricultural and Agrarian Policies in Developing Countries

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    What explains differences in agricultural and agrarian policies across countries and over time? Why do countries adopt, and maintain, policy regimes that reduce efficiency and increase rural poverty? What are the conditions for countries to initiate equity and efficiency enhancing policy reforms and for these reforms to be maintained? These are the questions pursued in this literature review.
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    Research on Land Markets in South Asia: What Have We Learned?

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    What have we learned about land markets in South Asia about land reform, land fragmentation, sharecropping, security of tenure, farm size, land rights, transaction costs, bargaining power, policy distortions, and market imperfections (including those associated with gender)?Faruqee and Carey review the literature on land markets in South Asia to clarify what's known and to highlight unresolved

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