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  Marrying farmer cooperation and contract farming for service provision in a liberalising sub-Saharan Africa

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999

  The paper explores ways of improving the performance of cooperation and contract farming, as well as the scope for linkages between them.
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  The evaluability of democracy and human rights projects. A logframe-related assessment

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2000

  Support for democracy and human rights (D/HR) has played an increasingly important role in Sida's co-operation with developing countries ever since the early 1990s. But there is a lack of information on the impact of initiatives. This study examines how well Sida's D/HR projects can be evaluated using the logical framework (logframe) as an organising evaluation structure.
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  Alleviating poverty: role of good governance and constitutional reform

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2000

  This article explores the role that good governance and constitutional reform might play in poverty alleviation in India.Policy recommendations:There is a need for the state to move out of many areas, which it has previously occupied.
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  Agricultural policy in Africa after adjustment

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 2000

  This study looks at agricultural policy in Africa since structural adjustment, with the aim of drawing conclusions about policies for the post-adjustment era.The study suggests that while some of the changes brought about under agricultural structural adjustment go too far, in many other respects they do not go far enough.
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  Bureaucratic structure and performance

  United Nations University, 2000

  This report presents the first findings of a United Nations University project with the objectives to:undertake the first systematic data collection on bureaucratic structure and performance in Africa, with data collected from in 20 countriesexpand the existing global dataset; and, empirically assess which incentives and organizational structures of bureaucracies affect bureaucrat
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  Institutions, politics, and contracts: the attempt to privatize the water and sanitation utility of Lima, Peru

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  This article deals with various issues surrounding the privatization of the the Water and Sanitation Utility of Lima, Peru. Lima's water system was in near-crisis, but this was not enough to bring about radical change. Partial reforms to reduce many of the city's worst problems were carried out under public management.
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  Year 2000 country profile: the status of Tanzania with the IMF and the World Bank

  Globalization Challenge Initiative, 2000

  Globalization Challenge Initiative (GCI) publishes the SAP Information Alert Series in order to promote informed debate about IMF and World Bank-financed operations, including the potential political, economic, social and environmental consequences of sectoral and strucural adjustment programs.
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  Conflict prevention: commission initiative to improve EU’s civilian intervention capacities

  European Union, 2001

  The Commission today adopted a Communication on Conflict Prevention. This document contains a comprehensive review of all the recent initiatives undertaken by the Community to promote peace and stability. The communication proposes a consolidated and realistic approach of the EU to conflict prevention.
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  Same platform, different train: the politics of participation

  The Corner House, UK, 1998

  Deals with the politics of participation in the Western Ghats Forestry Project (India).
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  Structural Adjustment for the IMF: options for reforming the IMF's governance structure

  Bretton Woods Project, 2001

  This article outlines the various forces shaping change at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and recommends various changes within the IMF.The first force springs from pressure in increasing the IMF's surveillance function, giving it new responsibilities to monitor and advise governments on financial sector restructuring and enabling it to operate as a quasi-lender of last resort.The sec

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