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  Water policy issues

  Water Engineering and Development Centre, 1997

  This paper discusses the principles underlying sound water policies, examples of good practice in applying those principles, and suggestions for the approaches that could be followed by the Department for International Development (DFID) in the future. In a paper of this length, some knowledge of the factual situation and problems of the water sector in developing countries will be assumed.
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  Selected NGO reporting on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI)

  Corporate Watch, 1998

  Reporting from FOE, Focus, Third World Institute, Corporate Watch and others
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  Comparative Study of European Aid for Poverty Reduction: A collaborative European Research Project: Objectives and Methodology for Phase II Recipient Country Case Studies

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999

  Phase I of the study has been a series of individual donor studies undertaken in donor capitals. Phase II offers scope to explore in recipient country contexts, the perspectives of recipients and donors and their interaction as well as the comparative experience and outcomes of several EU donors in the same recipient country context - all related to poverty reduction (PR).
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  Internet as a Tool for Social Development

  Information Technologies and Social Development Project, UNRISD, 1997

  Explores the potential role of the Internet in promoting sustainable and equitable development in Third World countries. Possibilities of using the Internet in a way that will benefit society at large and vulnerable groups in particular are analyzed within the wider framework of actual needs and existing facilities of these communities.
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  Livelihoods and Security in Africa: Contending Perspectives in the New Global Order

  African Studies Quarterly, 1999

  The purpose of this article is not to make an exhaustive analysis of the security literature, but to indicate how principal theoretical perspectives today influence our thinking about peace and security in Africa.
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  Economic Reforms And Health Conditions Of The Urban Poor In Tanzania

  African Studies Quarterly, 1997

  This paper describes the impact of Economic Reforms on the health conditions of the urban poor in Tanzania. The main argument advanced is that Structural Adjustment Policies (SAPs) have exacerbated the declining condition of the urban areas rather than improved them.
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  The Geographic Scope of EC Aid: One or Several Development Policies?

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1997

  This paper describes the origins of the EC development cooperation and its general characteristics.
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  Rebuilding Support for International Cooperation: New Constituencies in a Global Village

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1997

  This paper provides a brief overview of changes in the international cooperation constistuencies that support the cooperation efforts of the European Union, its Member States, and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). The reasons for the changes and their impact are briefly discussed.
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  Taming the tigers: the IMF and the Asian crisis

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 1998

  Report begins by describing what actually happened in the three worst hit countries of Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea. It goes on to explore the human impact of the crisis. These chapters provide the material for a detailed analysis of the IMF’s role, and of the numerous failings in its performance to date.
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  Swedish Development Cooperation with India - in a Poverty Reduction Perspective

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  The paper gives an overview of Sweden's development cooperation with India, viewed from a poverty reduction perspective. It is one of the products of a research project, entitled 'Comparative Study of European Aid for Poverty Reduction in India', carried out in 1997 by a group of four European and eleven Indian researchers.

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