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  What's Special About Wildlife Management In Forests?: Concepts And Models Of Rights-Based Management, With Recent Evidence From West-Central Africa

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999

  Wildlife consumption is an integral part of the livelihood and trade patterns of many peoples in the developing world, and highly valued by them. Yet to date the dominant models of wildlife management in areas of high – and allegedly unsustainable – consumptive use have favoured the exclusion of the users from the resource and the denial of its local values.
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  Knowledge and Information for Food Security in Africa: from traditional Media to the Internet

  Communication for Development (ComDev), FAO, 1998

  Draws on experiences with a range of communication technologies in Africa - from traditional media to the Internet - to examine the important role of knowledge and information for food security.
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  Failed Magic or Social Context?: Market Liberalization and the Rural Poor in Malawi

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1996

  One of the key questions in the debates swirling around structural adjustment programs in Africa is their effects on the poor. Have these programs "benefited ... the rural poor disproportionately", as concluded in Adjustment in Africa (World Bank 1994)? The answer for rural families studied over a period of years in Malawi is no.
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  Entering the 21st Century: World Development Report 1999/2000

  World Development Report, World Bank, 1999

  Localization—the growing economic and political power of cities, provinces, and other sub-national entities—will be one of the most important new trends in the 21st century.
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  Insights from the District Development Project, Uganda

  United Nations Capital Development Fund, 1999

  District Development Project (DDP) Pilot was set up to support the efforts of Ugandans to eradicate poverty in rural areas through improved inclusiveness, efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability in the delivery of public goods and services.
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  Self-Targeted Subsidies: The Distributional Impact of the Egyptian Food Subsidy System

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  Food subsidy programs are under increasing criticism in many developing countries because of their large contributions to government budget deficits.
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  Growth is good for the poor

  Economic Growth Project, World Bank, 2000

  This paper investigates the link between income of the poor and overall income (per capita GDP).
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  Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook

  Poverty Reduction Strategies and PRSPs, PovertyNet, World Bank, 2001

  Developing or strengthening a poverty reduction strategy is on the agenda of about 70 low-income countries, as a requirement for receiving debt relief under the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative (HIPC) and concessional assistance from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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  Environmental change and human health in countries of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP)

  Stockholm Environment Institute, 1999

  Aims to first briefly describe the broad global, economic, political, social, institutional context in which ACP countries currently find themselves. Describes the health status and key health threats in ACP countries in an environmental context and reviews environmental developments in the region and the ways in which they are influencing health.
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  Dollars, dialogue and development: an evaluation of Swedish programme aid

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 1999

  Programme aid - that is, import support, debt relief and budget support - has constituted a considerable part of Swedish aid in the 1990's. However, the volumes of programme aid have fallen both in relative and absolute terms during this same period. Few evaluations have assessed how different modalities of programme aid further economic growth and sustainable development.

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