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    Strengthening National Capacity for HIV/AIDS Strategic Planning

    HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 1998
    Strategic Planning is essential for a effective response to the epidemic. UNDP has extensive experience and long involvement in the strengthening of national planning capacity in all operational regions.
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    Governance and Policy Formulation

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1997
    Summary proceedings of a 1997 meeting covering: The governance environment (including the evolving role of civil society and extra-governmental organisations) The locus of policy formulation: interface between politician and administrator Respective roles and functions of politicians, administrators and civil society: consideration of institutional issues raised by these.
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    A guide to marketing costs and how to calculate them [agricultural marketing]

    Information Network on Post-Harvest Operations, FAO, 1993
    Explain basic concepts of agricultural marketing costs and marketing margins. It identifies the main types of arketing costs, provides brief advice on how to calculate them and discusses the interpretation of marketing margins.
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    Incentives and Provider Payment Methods [in the health sector]

    Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 1995
    The mode of payment creates powerful incentives affecting provider behavior and the efficiency, equity and quality outcomes of health finance reforms. This paper examines provider incentives as well as administrative costs, and institutional conditions for successful implementation associated with provider payment alternatives.
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    Capital Outflow from the Agriculture Sector in Thailand

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
    To understand Thailand's policy on development and industrialization, one must also study its policy on trade and agriculture. Certain Thai policies have facilitated economic development in Thailand: Raising agricultural productivity even during the early period of import substitution. The relatively equal distribution of land. Decentralized industrial growth.
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    Habari ya maendeleo ya Tanzania - 28. A bibliography on recent articles on Tanzanian development studies

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997
    Regularly published index to journal articles on Tanzania
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    Policy Bias and Agriculture: Partial and General Equilibrium Measures

    Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1998
    Paper examines the impact of industrial protection, agricultural export taxes, and overvaluation of the exchange rate on the balance between the agricultural and non-agricultural sectors. A variety of agricultural terms-of-trade indices are constructed to measure the policy bias against agriculture in a general equilibrium framework that incorporates traded and non-traded goods.
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    Asset bubbles, Leverage and ‘Lifeboats’: Elements of the East Asian crisis

    Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, 1998
    Collapsing credit markets have been blamed for the depth and persistence of the Great Depression in the USA. Could similar mechanisms have played a role in ending the East Asian economic miracle - and in creating fragility in global financial markets?
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    Schooling Quality in a Cross Section of Countries

    Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1998
    Investigates the determinants of educational quality in a newly-constructed panel data set that includes output and input measures for a broad number of countries. The results show that family inputs and school resources are closely related to school outcomes, as measured by internationally comparable test scores, repetition rates, and drop-out rates.
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    Inequality and the Emergence of Non-farm Employment in Rwanda

    Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1997
    Examines the structure of income inequality among farm households in Rwanda. Specifically, it focuses on inequalities rooted in the distribution of and holdings and on the attendant polarization of relatively large landholders who tend to hire agricultural wage labor, on the one hand, and near-landless householders who provide this wage labor, on the other.

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