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  King Cotton under Sovereignty: The Private Marketing Chain for Cotton in Western Tanzania, 1997/98

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Examines the emergence of a private sector marketing chain for cotton in Tanzania in the period 1994/95-1997/98, based on field work conducted between June and September 1997.
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  Limping towards a Ditch without a Crutch: The Brave New World of Tanzanian Cotton Marketing Cooperatives.

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Describes developments in cotton marketing cooperatives in Tanzania’s major cotton growing area between 1991 and 1997. During this period cooperatives underwent voluntarisation, lost state and donor financial support and (from 1995) had to face strong competition from private cotton buyers/ginners.
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  Micro-macro linkages in financial markets: the impact of financial liberalisation on access to rural credit in four African countries

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 1999

  Almost every programme of economic reform contains a financial liberalisation component; but little work has been done to assess the effects of financial liberalisation on access to credit in individual markets.
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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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  Creation of Land Markets in Transition Countries: Implications for the Institutions of Land Administration

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999

  Describes (1) the processes of privatization of land management in selected transition countries and (2) the post-privatization changes in land administration institutions which are being crafted to establish land markets.
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  Macro Trends and Determinates of Fertilizer Use in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1999

  Reviews the the dynamics of fertilizer use in Africa, specifically with regards to the trends in fertilizer consumption at the continental, regional and country level and the factors associated with changes in fertilizer use.Finds that:On trends in fertilizer useAggregate figures for fertilizer consumption in SSA show a steady increase, measured in terms of both absolute levels (metr
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  Structural adjustment and agriculture in Guyana: From crisis to recovery

  Sectoral Activities Programme, ILO, 1999

  Documents the decline and rise of the Guyanese economy, with particular focus on the agricultural sector and its contribution to employment creation and poverty alleviation. The demarcation line between decline and recovery is put at 1988 because of the adoption that year of the Economic Reform Programme, although actual recovery only started in 1990.
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  Why liberalization alone has not improved agricultural productivity in Zambia: the role of asset ownership and working capital constraints

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  In the early 1990s, Zambia initiated an ambitious program of liberalization that significantly opened the economy, shifting from a highly regulated and centralized to a more market-based and liberal economic paradigm.
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  Land tenure, investment, and agricultural production in Nicaragua

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 2000

  While there is a consensus in Nicaragua that the security of property rights is a fundamental constraint to the long run development of the agricultural sector, there has been little empirical analysis to date of the relationship between land rights and rural economic activity.Using household level data collected between December, 1997– April, 1998 within the regions of Leon and Chinandega (kno
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  Information, ICTs and Small Enterprise: Lessons from Botswana

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 1999

  The potential contribution of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to small enterprise development can only be assessed by first understanding current information practices and needs in such enterprises.

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