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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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  Peasant Logic, Agrarian Policy, Land Mobility, and Land Markets in Mexico

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998

  Mexican rural reform has questioned the role of the peasantry and private national producers in agriculture. The reform followed a neoliberal paradigm for incorporating the nation into the global village.
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  Lessons from Africa's Social Funds and Public Works and Employment Projects

  Africa Region Findings, World Bank, 1998

  The concept of creating autonomous or semi-autonomous entities to implement small-scale projects more efficiently has spread throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.
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  The roles of Chinese economists in economic reform

  National Centre for Development Studies, Australia, 1998

  Before economic reform, economists rarely played any important roles in the decision-making process of China’s economy.
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  Water Challenge and Institutional Response: A Cross-Country Perspective

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Concerns in the water sector, which once revolved around water development (and quantity), now revolve around water allocation (and quality).
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  Who Controls East Asian Corporations?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  A study of 2,980 corporations in nine East Asian countries finds more than half of those firms being controlled by a single shareholder. Many smaller and older firms are family-controlled.
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  Competitive Agricultural Technology Funds in Developing Countries

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999

  Dissatisfaction with traditional mechanisms of funding agricultural research and dissemination (AR&D) in developing countries has led to the introduction of competitive agricultural technology funds (CATFs) in an increasing number of them. This model is now favoured by many donors, despite the fact that available information on its modalities and performance has been fragmentary.
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  Instability of National Agricultural Research Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Nigeria

  International Service for National Agricultural Research, 1998

  NARS leaders and managers are concerned not only with procuring an adequate level of resources, but also about the stability of resources and institutional sustainability. This ground-breaking research examines six types of instability affecting agricultural research in developing countries: policy, program, institutional, funding, research staff, and governance instability.
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  Trading Agents and other Producer Services in African Industrialisation and Globalisation.

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999

  Trading agents and other business services play an important role in the globalisation process as mediators of economic links. However, in large parts of Africa trade and business services have traditionally been perceived negatively, and they appear not to have had the same catalytic role in Africa as they have had elsewhere.
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  Business services in the Globalizing African economies

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Discusses the role of business services in the economy in general and especially in the low-income African economies. At the global level large transnational business service firms are developing global service networks linking the world’s large cities together and serving especially the large transnational companies, but apparently largely by-passing Africa.

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