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Enhancing the private sector contribution to post-war recovery in poor countries:part 1:comparative analysis
Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2000Violent conflict has become more frequent in developing countries in the last two decades, and international support for peace making has become more important. Yet, post-war reconstruction in these countries has proven to be difficult and prolonged despite high levels of foreign aid.DocumentAfricans query World Bank, IMF governance mantra
Bretton Woods Project, 2001This article discusses the recent trip of President James Wolfensohn and IMF Managing Director Horst Koehler to Mali and Tanzania to meet 22 African leaders in February. The theme of their visit was discussions concerning good governance.Ironically, the efforts to listen to civil society groups directly were minimal.DocumentWhy biotech patents are patently absurd: scientific briefing on TRIPs and related issues
Institute of Science in Society, UK, 2001This scientific briefing explains why the patenting of life-forms and living processes (as covered under Article 27.3(b) of TRIPs) should be revoked and banned.Concludes that all biotech patents should be rejected on the following grounds:all involve biological processes not under the direct control of the scientist.DocumentWheat policy reform in Egypt: adjustment of local markets and options for future reforms
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2000Since 1987, as part of a general shift toward a more market-oriented economy, Egypt’s wheat sector has been partially liberalized, primarily in production and trade.DocumentGuidelines for developing improved risk assessment, prevention and management approaches in pastoral areas of Northwestern China
Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2001This report presents an analytical framework for assessing the risks pastoral livestock keepers face in Nothwestern China.DocumentFrom users to custodians: changing relations between people and the state in forest management in Tanzania
World Bank, 2001This paper begins by discussing Tanzania's increasing recognition of the need to bring individuals, local groups, and communities into the policy, planning, and management process if woodlands are to remain productive in the coming decades.The article finds that:central control of forests takes management responsibility away from the communities most dependent on them, inevitably resulDocumentState reforms and the decentralization of the agricultural and rural public sector: lessons from the Latin American experience
Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2001Paper asserts that strengthening the institutional capacities of local governments is important for: 1) economic reasons (e.g. productive and allocative efficiency), 2) equity reasons (territorial and social equity); and 3) political reasons (e.g. elected officers' accountability to citizens, citizens' participation in decision- making, and democratisation of decision-making).DocumentRisks and the Impacts of Microenterprise Services (Dunn / Kalaitzandonakes / Valdivia / AIMS).
microLINKS,, 1999DocumentReview of the impact information systems of NGO microenterprise programs (Hyman / Dearden / AIMS)
microLINKS,, 1999