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  Protecting the Poor During Adjustment (World Bank)

  HNPFLASH, 1999
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  Decentralization in Chile (Stewart / Ranis / UNDP)

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1999
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  Promoting food security in Rwanda through sustainable agricultural productivity: meeting the challenges of population pressure, land degradation and poverty (MSU)

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1999
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  What makes a local organisation robust?: evidence from India and Nepal (ODI Natural Resource Perspectives)

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999

  The move towards decentralisation of resource control and management promises more efficient, equitable and sustainable resource use. Debate centres on what type of institutional arrangement in a given context is most appropriate and will lead to the fulfilment of the above ideal. Aspects of these arrangements include property rights structures as well as organisational structures.
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  The benefits of growth for Indonesian workers

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  Does improving the conditions of workers in Indonesia require government interventions?Indonesia's rapid, broadly based pattern of growth has led to a spectacular reduction in poverty in the past 25 years.
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  Rural poverty in Ecuador : a qualitative assessment

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  This report aims to assess what poverty means to marginalized rural families, what kind of survival strategies families use in times of hardship, and what these families believe is needed to alleviate their poverty.
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  Decentralized rural development and enhanced community participation : a casestudy from Northeast Brazil / Johan van Zyl ... [et al.]

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  The positive experience with the latest rural development intervention in Northeast Brazil suggests that rapid progress can be made if community participation is enhanced and decision making authority is decentralized to lower levels of government and other institutions.In Northeast Brazil, despite sustained efforts to reduce rural poverty and more than $3.2 billion in spending, the rural poor
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  Adjustment and poverty in Mexican agriculture: how farmers' wealth affects supply response

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  By and large, it appears that the goals of agricultural reform are being met in Mexico.
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  Promoting economic growth in Sri Lanka: lessons from East Asia

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Why, despite solid progress in human development and in the reduction of consumption poverty, has Sri Lanka's per capita income fallen far behind the dynamic East Asian economies?
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  Decentralization : the way forward for rural development?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Although decentralization initiatives have a long history, much more needs to be understood about various components of decentralization before sound advice can be given to policy makers.Special strategies are needed to address the widespread incidence of rural poverty in developing countries, but initiatives aimed at improving the rural standard of living have not consistently reduced poverty.

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