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  The WWF-World Bank Alliance Global Collaboration for Forest Conservation and Sustainable Use -- Thoughts on Making It Work

  Macroeconomics for Sustainable Development Programme Office, WWF, 1998

  Taking the broad objectives and specific instruments of the WWF-World Bank Alliance as a starting point, the purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of major economic and political forces driving the deforestation/degradation process which need to be considered and addressed to maximize the achievement and effectiveness of the Alliance.
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  Mainstreaming Public Participation in Economic Infrastructure Projects

  Overseas Development Institute, 1998

  In the last ten years, participation has become central to the social development sectors of official development assistance – smallholder agriculture, community forestry, health care, education, urban sanitation, small-scale water supplies, etc.
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  Contestation over Political Space: The State and Demobilisation of Party Politics in Kenya

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Appraises political liberalization and subsequent contestation over political space in Kenya. The discussion centres on how, from the colonial period, elite politics have precluded organization and crystallization of popular democracy.The paper specifically examines the historicity of political factionalism and attendant decline of multi-partyism.
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  Globalization, Uneven Development and Poverty: Recent Trends and Policy Implications

  Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 1998

  Paper outlines recent trends in economic growth, income distribution and poverty in the context of globalization.
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  Ethical Trading Initiatives and Forest Dependent People

  Ethical Trade and Natural Resources Programme, NRI, 1998

  Discusses some of the schemes that promote environmentally sustainable trade in forest products and highlights some concerns about their impact on forest dependent people. The trading chains of many forest products, particularly non-timber forest products, are highly complex and people are involved in the marketing of these products in a variety of ways.
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  Going places: Cambodia's future on the move [illegal logging]

  Global Witness, 1998

  Report on illegal logging of Cambodia's forest resources, the government's complicity and the role of Thailand and Vietnam in the export of logs.
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  Certified forest products marketplace [in Europe]

  Economic Commission for Europe, UN, 1998

  Review of market condition in the ECE area.
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  Rational exploitations: economic criteria & indicators for sustainable management of tropical forests

  Center for International Forestry Research, 1998

  Covers the economic dimensions and issues associated with the of criteria and design of indicators on the sustainable management of tropical forests.
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  Cameroon's Logging Industry: Structure, Economic Importance and Effects of Devaluation

  Center for International Forestry Research, 1998

  Aims to describe the current structure of the Cameroon logging industry, assess its importance within Cameroon's economy, and analyse recent development which the industry has experienced since the devaluation of the CFA franc in January 1994.
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  Empowering The Community: Information Strategies For Pollution Control

  New Ideas in Pollution Regulation, World Bank, 1998

  Disclosure strategies, which involve public and/or private attempts to increase the availability of information on pollution, form the basis for what some have called the third wave in pollution control policy (after legal regulation--the first wave--and market-based instruments --the second wave).

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