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  Global Trade expansion and liberalisation: gender issues and impacts

  BRIDGE, 1998

  A major challenge for development policy aimed at reducing poverty is to enable a more equitable distribution of the gains associated with trade expansion and liberalisation. This requires a better understanding of why some countries and social groups are able to benefit more than others from increasing trade flows.
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  Land Reform, Poverty Reduction and Growth: Evidence from India

  Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, 1998

  In recent times there has been a renewed interest in relationships between redistribution, growth and welfare. Land reforms have been central to strategies to improve the asset base of the poor in developing countries thought their effectiveness has been hindered by political constraints on implementation.
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  The Perestroika of Aid?: New Perspectives on conditionality

  Christian Aid, 1999

  Reviews policy arguements on conditionality and recommends and NGO standpoint. Discussed in the context of the Wolfenson/World Bank Comprehensive Development Framework.Argues that NGOs' engagement in the conditionality debate has largely focused on concerns about donors' policy prescriptions and advocating alternatives.
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  L'exclusion sociale au Cameroun

  International Institute for Labour Studies, ILO, 1997

  Analyses the causes of social exclusion in Cameroon, its relationship to land tenure and the political structures through which it is being addressed
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  Microdeterminants of Consumption, Poverty, Growth, and Inequality in Bangladesh

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  What are the gains from a better education, more land ownership, or a different occupation in Bangladesh? Do the gains differ in urban and rural areas? Have they remained stable over time? Do household size, family structure, and gender affect well-being?
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  The Search for the Key: Aid, Investment, and Policies in Africa

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Aid does not necessarily finance investment, and investment does not necessarily promote growth. But the combination of private investment, good policies, and foreign aid is quite powerful.
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  Economic Policy Reform and Growth Prospects in Emerging Africa Economies

  OECD Development Centre, 1999

  Assesses the prospects for growth of African economies up to the year 2010 by modelling structural and policy determinants of growth, under different scenarios for changes in the exogenous factors and economic policies which shape the projections. To this end we estimate a growth model for 39 African economies, during seven five-year periods from 1960 through 1995.
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  Making Adjustment Work for the Poor

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  Many developing countries are engaged in structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) sponsored by the IMF and World Bank.
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  Hunter-gatherers, conservation and development: from prejudice to policy reform

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999

  Communities of present-day or former hunter-gatherers live in scattered communities across the world, although their precise numbers and status are very uncertain. Their often marginalised status and ethnolinguistic diversity has made it hard to articulate their case for land rights outside Australia and North America.
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  Social Exclusion and Land Administration in Orissa, India

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Examines—from the perspective of transaction costs—factors that constrain access to land for the rural poor and other socially excluded groups in India. They find that: Land reform has reduced large landholdings since the 1950s. Medium-size farms have gained most. Formidable obstacles still prevent the poor from gaining access to land.

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