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  Is Agricultural Intensification Profitable For Mozambican Smallholders? An Appraisal of the Inputs Subsector and the 1996/97 DNER/SG2000 Program

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1998

  Summarizes an appraisal of input use and marketing in Mozambique focusing on the following research questions: (1) what are current smallholder yields for major commodities and what is the potential for increasing yields by using improved technologies? (2) to what extent are improved technologies already being used by smallholders, and are they profitable?
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  Population and Sustainability: Understanding Population, Environment, and Development Linkages

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1998

  The triple challenge of rapid population growth, declining agricultural productivity, and natural resource degradation are not isolated from one another; they are intimately related.
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  Mainstreaming Public Participation in Economic Infrastructure Projects

  Overseas Development Institute, 1998

  In the last ten years, participation has become central to the social development sectors of official development assistance – smallholder agriculture, community forestry, health care, education, urban sanitation, small-scale water supplies, etc.
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  Market Based Instruments For Environmental Policymaking In Latin America And The Caribbean: Lessons From Eleven Countries

  New Ideas in Pollution Regulation, World Bank, 1998

  Study of market-based instruments, focusing on 11 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela) and a cross-section of issues (water supply and abstraction, water quality, air quality, energy, solid and liquid waste management, toxic substances, noise, and agriculture) within an urban s
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  Population and environmental change: from linkages to policy issues

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 1999

  Population dynamics, poverty and environmental change are linked in many ways and through multiple social and economic mechanisms, at various geographic levels. But not all those linkages have relevance for policy formulation in one of the three domains thus interconnected.
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  How Bad Governance Impedes Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh

  OECD Development Centre, 1998

  In 1995/96, 47.5 per cent of the population of Bangladesh were still living below the poverty line. While this represents a decline compared to 62.6 per cent in 1983/84, the absolute number of poor people has in fact increased over the same period.
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  Prerequisites for a Development-Oriented State in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998

  Analyzes the enormous obstacles that the Democratic Republic of the Congo faces in forming a stable, development-oriented state. No government could design, implement, and finance a development program for the country without coordinated analytical and financial support from the international community.
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  Making Negotiated Land Reform Work: Initial Experience from Brazil, Colombia, and South Africa

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Can land reform have a lasting impact on poverty reduction?
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  Environment benefits from removing trade restrictions and distortions: background for WTO negotiations

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  The interaction between environmental policies and trade policies emerged as an issue at the end of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in 1994.
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  The Poor and their Money: what have we learned?

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  Money markets ought to allocate finance where it is most needed, and thus contribute to greater productivity, employment and the reduction of poverty. Yet in practice they have not performed this function at all well. Vast segments of the population are still unserved, inappropriate financial services are offered and inflexible contracts are extended.

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