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  Is Ethiopia's debt sustainable?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  The international development community has begun to recognize that options aimed at providing debt relief to countries where debt is not sustainable need to be seriously explored. When is debt not sustainable?
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  Adjustment and poverty in Mexican agriculture: how farmers' wealth affects supply response

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  By and large, it appears that the goals of agricultural reform are being met in Mexico.
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  Promoting economic growth in Sri Lanka: lessons from East Asia

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Why, despite solid progress in human development and in the reduction of consumption poverty, has Sri Lanka's per capita income fallen far behind the dynamic East Asian economies?
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  From Prices to Incomes: Agricultural Subsidization without Protection?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  In theory, moving from price based subsidies for agriculture to less distorted income support programs makes sense.
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  Agriculture and the policy environment: Zambia and Zimbabwe: political dreams and policy nightmares

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  The paper examines the effect of differing policies in the post-independence period on the agricultural and overall economic performance of Zambia and Zimbabwe. It focuses on the interaction between macroeconomic and agricultural policy reforms. It shows that macro and micro reforms need to be closely linked and that both are critical to sectoral performance.
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  Child Labour in commercial agriculture in Africa

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 1999

  This paper seeks to review briefly the available evidence on the extent and types of child labour in the commercial agriculture sector in the Africa region. Information and data are included from case-studies carried out on the child labour situation in commercial agriculture in Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, United Republic of Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
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  By the Sweat & Toil of Children: The Use of Child Labor in U.S. Agricultural Imports & Forced and Bonded Child Labor

  International Child Labor Program, USA, 1999

  Examines children working to produce agricultural products exported to the United States and children working under forced labor conditions, such as bonded (or slave) labor and forced prostitution.
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  From Dutch disease to deforestation - a macroeconomic link? A case study from Ecuador

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997

  In the literature about macroeconomics and deforestation, it is often supposed that strong foreign exchange outflows (e.g. debt service) increase deforestation, as higher poverty augments frontier migration and natural resources are squeezed to generate export revenues. This paper analyses the opposite phenomenon, i.e.
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  The impact of commercialization on the role of labour in African pastoral societies

  Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1991

  As pastoral systems undergo commercialisation, all parts of those systems (livestock productivity, range use, household economies and the socio-cultural system itself) adjust to the new goals of production. This paper considers one of the elements in this adjustment, that of the changing role of labour.
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  Spilling the Beans: What's wrong with the coffee trade?

  Fairtrade Foundation, 1998

  Highlights the problems facing coffee farmers as a result of the way we trade in coffee. After examining how the trade operates, the report illustrates with testimonies its impact on the lives of farmers.

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