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  Intellectual property and the knowledge gap

  Oxfam, 2001

  Policy paper for presentation to the world social forum 2002. Provides a basic introduction to issues relating to IPRs, bilateral regulation, the TRIPS agreement and the impact of these policies on developing countries.
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  South African Studies Network (Sussex)

  Centre for the Comparative Study of Culture, Development and the Environment, Sussex University, 1999
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  Indigenous knowledge and institutions bibliography (Indiana)

  Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, 1999
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  Progress in strengthening small farm group development in Sri Lanka (FAO)

  People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions, 1999
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  Agricultural and rural development policy in Latin America: new directions and new challenges (de Janvry / Sadoulet / Key)

  Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Berkeley, 1999
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  Does more for the poor mean less for the poor? : the politics of tagging

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Attempts to achieve "more for the poor" through the use of indicator targeting may in fact mean less for the poor. The efficient use of a fixed budget for poverty reduction may require targeting. However, the use of indicator targeting, using fixed characteristics that are correlated with poverty to determine the distribution of expenditures, will tend to reduce the budget.
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  Rural finance for growth and poverty alleviation in Pakistan

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  To promote agricultural --- and hence economic --- growth, Pakistan must make more credit available to agricultural smallholders, the rural non farm sector, and women. Subsidizing interest rates is not the way to help marginal borrowers.
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  Explaining Agricultural and Agrarian Policies in Developing Countries

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  What explains differences in agricultural and agrarian policies across countries and over time? Why do countries adopt, and maintain, policy regimes that reduce efficiency and increase rural poverty? What are the conditions for countries to initiate equity and efficiency enhancing policy reforms and for these reforms to be maintained? These are the questions pursued in this literature review.
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  Research on Land Markets in South Asia: What Have We Learned?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  What have we learned about land markets in South Asia about land reform, land fragmentation, sharecropping, security of tenure, farm size, land rights, transaction costs, bargaining power, policy distortions, and market imperfections (including those associated with gender)?Faruqee and Carey review the literature on land markets in South Asia to clarify what's known and to highlight unresolved
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  The Role of Agricultural Education in Improving the Performance of Support Services for the Renewable Natural Resources Sector

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997

  Whilst recent research (mainly in sub-Saharan Africa) has indicated a number of successful innovations in agricultural education and training (AET), it has generally been unresponsive to changing patterns of demand for trainees, which are influenced by the changing roles of public and private sectors.

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