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  Effects of market reform on access to food by low-income households: evidence from four countries in Eastern and Southern Africa (MSU)

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1999
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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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  Is Ethiopia's debt sustainable?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  The international development community has begun to recognize that options aimed at providing debt relief to countries where debt is not sustainable need to be seriously explored. When is debt not sustainable?
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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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  Roads, lands, markets, and deforestation: a spatial model of land use in Belize

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Will intensifying the road network around market areas produce greater economic returns and less environmental damage than extending the road network into new areas?Rural roads promote economic development but also facilitate deforestation.
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  Decentralising Aid and its Management in Uganda: Lessons for Capacity-building at the Local Level

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999
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  How Government Policies Affect the Relationship between Polish and World Wheat Prices

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Government intervention is the main reason for the low correlation between cash prices for Polish wheat and wheat futures prices in Chicago and London. Polish government policies reduce incentives for Poland's private sector to use existing wheat futures contracts in foreign exchanges to hedge against price risks and impede the development of a Polish wheat futures exchange.
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  From Prices to Incomes: Agricultural Subsidization without Protection?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  In theory, moving from price based subsidies for agriculture to less distorted income support programs makes sense.
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  Agricultural trade and rural development in the Middle East and North Africa: recent developments and prospects

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997

  More robust, dynamic growth could significantly boost sustainable economic growth and rural development in countries in the Middle East and North Africa with a comparative advantage in agriculture. But high levels of protection in many of those countries contribute to overvalued exchange rates and a significant bias against agriculture.

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