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Hirschmanian themes of social learning and change
World Bank, 2001This article positions itself within the context of discussions (inspired by Albert Hirschman) about strategies of unbalanced growth in response to the postwar theories of the “big push,” development planning, and balanced growth.DocumentStrengthening pastoral institutions in North-West China pastoral area to access improved extension services for risk management and poverty alleviation
Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2001This report documents the in-depth situation assessment on Pastoral Risk Management and Poverty Alleviation, in Dari County.DocumentAre wage adjustments an effective mechanism for poverty alleviation?: some simulations for domestic and farm workers
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2000The South African Department of Labour's recent call for public submissions and public comment on the issue of minimum wages and conditions of employment for domestic and farm workers has bought these issues to the fore. An analysis of the first of these two issues, namely wages, will place into sharp focus the stringent trade-offs faced by the Department of Labour in this part of the workforce.DocumentAid versus trade revisited
Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2001Examines the (non) equivalence between aid flows and trade preferences as alternative forms of donor assistance in the presence of learning-by-doing externalities in recipient country export production.DocumentPRSPs: should they carry a health warning?
International Poverty Health Network, 2001This article investigates whether the World Bank and IMF's Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) have been successful or not.The article indicates that:there has been criticism that there has been a lack of local ownership in the PRSP generation processthere has often been little, or occasionally no, participationalthough monitoring of the quality of participation in PRSPs iDocumentGlobal hunger and food security after the World Food Summit (ODI)
Overseas Development Institute, 1999DocumentRome Declaration on World Food Security and the World Food Summit Plan of Action (FAO)
World Food Summit, FAO, 1999DocumentForests, famine and war: the key to Cambodia's future
Global Witness, 1995Global Witness' first report, which reveals the architects and beneficiaries of Cambodia's timber trade, including the Royal Government of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge, and which shows that these two groups, who at the time were at war, often work in tandem