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  Rice market liberalization and poverty in Viet Nam

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001

  The main objective of this report is to examine the new set of food policy issues facing Viet Nam as a result of its transformation into a major rice exporter and its transition toward a market economy. In particular, the report aims to shed some light on two key issues: What would be the effect on income and poverty of further liberalization of rice markets in Viet Nam?
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  Wheat policy reform in Egypt: adjustment of local markets and options for future reforms

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2000

  Since 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.
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  Protected Areas: the concept and case studies

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998

  Historical development of the concept of protected areas and biodiversity, plus short case studies of Cameroon, Colombia, Spain and Zimbabwe.
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  General equilibrium modelling of trade and the environment / John Beghin ...[et al.]

  OECD Development Centre, 1996

  The environmental impacts of economic activity have become an increasingly urgent concern in both OECD Member countries, as well as in non-Member countries. Research in this area is still in its infancy, and the data required to buttress analytical studies is still sparse.
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  Gender and urban social movements: women's community responses to restructuring and urban poverty

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 1996

  Urban poverty is increasing in the wake of neoliberal restructuring in both North and South, and much of the responsibility for providing basic welfare services is simultaneously being shifted from public to private hands.
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  Analysis of policy reforms and structural adjustment programs in Malawi with emphasis on agriculture and trade

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996

  This study’s emphasis on agriculture’s elevated role in Malawi’s medium-term adjustment strategy and its articulation of the sector’s key role as the engine of growth and employment aptly makes an important point. Dr.
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  Employment Creation and Development Strategy

  OECD Development Centre, 1993

  Developing countries will account for almost all the increase in the world's labour force over the next 25 years; most countries, especially in Africa, will experience very rapid labour force growth. Labour-intensive development has been spectacularly successful in some countries and others have begun to emulate them.
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  Towards Sustainable Development in Rural Africa

  OECD Development Centre, 1999

  A growing recognition of the need to delimit the role of the government, to promote the market framework, and to rely on the private sector as the engine of growth, offers the prospect of a new beginning in rural development in Africa.
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  Trade Liberalisation: What 's at Stake ?

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  Trade barriers seriously distort patterns of international trade, allocation of resources, and economic growth. The total economic costs of the barriers are estimated to exceed $475 billion per annum. Partial reform, such as envisaged in the Uruguay Round, would yield benefits of $195 billion per annum, of which over $90 billion would accrue to developing and formerly centrally planned countries.
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  Managing the environment in developing countries

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  Environmental policy should be inspired by the recognition that the environment is everyone’s business; all social actors must be involved in environmental management. Policies that implicitly subsidize a wasteful and environmentally destructive use of resources are pervasive: reforms should command a high priority on economic as well as environmental grounds.

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