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    White Paper on Water Policy, South Africa

    African Water Page, 1999
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    Economic Reforms And Health Conditions Of The Urban Poor In Tanzania

    African Studies Quarterly, 1997
    This paper describes the impact of Economic Reforms on the health conditions of the urban poor in Tanzania. The main argument advanced is that Structural Adjustment Policies (SAPs) have exacerbated the declining condition of the urban areas rather than improved them.
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    Sovereignty and Personal Rule in Zaire

    African Studies Quarterly, 1997
    How did Mobutu weather for so long the collapse of not only Zaire's state institutions, but also his presidential network of strongmen and aspiring politicians that really ran Zaire before the 1990s? And after Laurent Kabila finally removed Mobutu from power in May, 1997, how has the nature of state collapse under Mobutu influenced Kabila's own construction of authority?
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    The Geographic Scope of EC Aid: One or Several Development Policies?

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1997
    This paper describes the origins of the EC development cooperation and its general characteristics.
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    Taming the tigers: the IMF and the Asian crisis

    Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 1998
    Report begins by describing what actually happened in the three worst hit countries of Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea. It goes on to explore the human impact of the crisis. These chapters provide the material for a detailed analysis of the IMF’s role, and of the numerous failings in its performance to date.
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    Swedish Development Cooperation with India - in a Poverty Reduction Perspective

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    The paper gives an overview of Sweden's development cooperation with India, viewed from a poverty reduction perspective. It is one of the products of a research project, entitled 'Comparative Study of European Aid for Poverty Reduction in India', carried out in 1997 by a group of four European and eleven Indian researchers.
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    Danish Development Cooperation with India - in a Poverty Reduction Perspective

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    The paper gives an overview of Denmark's official development cooperation with India, viewed from a poverty reduction perspective. It is one of the products of a research project, entitled 'Comparative Study of European Aid for Poverty Reduction in India', carried out in 1997 by a group of four European and eleven Indian researchers.
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    The Aga Khan Rural Support Program: A Third Evaluation

    Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995
    AKRSP, in its thirteenth year of operation, continues to be an effective instrument to improve community productivity and family welfare in Pakistan's Northern Areas and Chitral. Improvements have resulted from the program's interventions in productive investments, in production-support investments, such as access roads, in training, and in financial and technical services.
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    Cost Benefit Analysis of Private Sector Environmental Investments: A Case Study of the Kunda Cement Factory

    International Finance Corporation, 1999
    Considers the case of a cement plant in Estonia and tries to answer the question: how do the (private) costs of curbing pollution compare to the (social) benefits to the population? While it is often easy to estimate costs, it is exceedingly difficult to capture the benefits, especially in developing and transition countries.
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    Land, Forests and People in Finnish Aid in Zanzibar: Some Preliminary Observations

    Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, 1998
    Sets out to examine the question of aid provision. As part of a general study on Finnish aid, the main focus is on two projects in Zanzibar: Zanzibar Forestry Project (ZFP) and Zanzibar Integrated Lands and Environment Management (ZILEM) project. This study centres on initial research carried out in Dar es Salaam (documentary) and Unguja (documentary, observational and in-depth interviews).

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