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    Economics: Small Enterprises: Project Cycle: Micro-Entreprise Projects

    BRIDGE, 1999
    An examination of the various stages in the micro-enterprise project cycle, covering Identification of Needs, Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring, and Evaluation and Impact Assessment.
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    Environment: Gender and Environmental Management in Urban Areas

    BRIDGE, 1999
    Gender issues in urban environmental management, focusing on various public/ private services including water supply, solid waste management, urban planning, sanitation, housing, pollution, transport and urban agriculture.
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    Market friendly land reform in South Africa: does it work for the poor?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001
    The first post-apartheid South African government aimed to establish democratic institutions and prosperity in a non-racial society. Pensions, housing subsidies, and land reform were to kick-start the process of equitable and sustainable development given their potential direct impact on poor people.
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    Are they being served? Service sector reform and the WTO in Southern Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001
    Regulation of the service sector in South Africa can act as a break on economic growth. The WTO can perhaps act as a catalyst for faster liberalisation of service sectors but there can be no substitute for domestically-driven reform. Faster reform could have positive knock-on effects for the rest of the economy but research is needed to inform this process.
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    If it’s good for the region it’s good for the nation. What can regional public goods do for Africa?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001
    Africa, it is noted, puts in a 'disappointing' economic performance as a continent, and yet aid is provided on an individual country by country basis. Regional partnership within Africa is thus discouraged. Should aid be a one-way gift to individual countries?
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    Hidden agenda: is multilateral aid protecting the environment?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001
    The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is the newest addition to the Bretton Woods family of international financial institutions. GEF has for a decade supported the implementation of the United Nations (UN) conventions to limit climate change and protect biodiversity by financing selected groups in eligible countries.
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    Healthcare reform in Tamil Nadu. Strengthening the government's role

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001
    India is often represented as an over-regulated economy. Yet government has played a very limited role in the social services and in healthcare in particular.
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    Credit where credit's due: can't micro-loans do more for India's poor?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001
    Have micro-credit programmes succeeded in meeting the needs of the poor? Are non-governmental organisations (NGOs) such as aid charities or private credit unions, better than governments at reducing poverty by bankrolling grassroots enterprise?
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    Environment: Gender, Trade and the Environment

    BRIDGE, 1999
    An anlysis of gender issues in trade policies in relation to the environment, highlighting welfare and justice concerns.
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    Rural Livelihoods: Crop Production

    BRIDGE, 1999
    Gender issues in crop production. Includes: key issues; a list of women and girls' less visible roles; instances when women and girls may need special attention; examples of gender sensitive terms of reference; and some mini-case studies.

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