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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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  Restocking pastoralists in Kenya: a strategy for relief and rehabilitation

  Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1985

  The prevailing orthodoxy is that destitution in pastoral areas is the inevitable result of an overloaded pastoral system, caused by:human population increasean ecologically unwise dependence on milk in a country where milk production should not be attemptedtraditional range management practicesIn this view the only solution to destitution is for pastoralists to keep less li
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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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  Rural nonfarm employment : a survey

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Although governments in some countries are implementing projects to support small scale and rural enterprises, more commonly the rural non farm sector operates in a policy environment that is biased against it.
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  The dynamics of poverty : why some people escape from poverty and others don't : an African case study

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  In urban areas of Cote d'Ivoire, human capital is the endowment that best explains welfare changes over time. In rural areas, physical capital especially the amount of land and farm equipment owned matters most.Empirical investigations of poverty in developing countries tend to focus on the incidence of poverty at a particular point in time.
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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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  Agrarian structure in Poland : the myth of large farm superiority

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  Policy makers who currently promote large, mechanized farms in Poland to the detriment of smaller farms should reevaluate these policies. Smaller farms are more labour-intensive than large farms, and no less efficient.In Poland, present policies are aimed at promoting large, mechanized farms over smaller family farms.
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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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  Poverty and inequality during structural adjustment in rural Tanzania

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  Growth attributed to structural adjustment has benefited the population generally, shifting a significant portion of the population from below the poverty line to above it.
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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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