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  Emerging Drought Conditions in S. and SE Ethiopia: United Nations Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia (UN-EUE)

  United Nations Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia, 1999
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  What makes a local organisation robust?: evidence from India and Nepal (ODI Natural Resource Perspectives)

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999

  The move towards decentralisation of resource control and management promises more efficient, equitable and sustainable resource use. Debate centres on what type of institutional arrangement in a given context is most appropriate and will lead to the fulfilment of the above ideal. Aspects of these arrangements include property rights structures as well as organisational structures.
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  Competition in network industries

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  Debate about whether and how to introduce competition in network industries --- including transport, power, and telecommunications --- is sometimes heated. Klein contends that in case of doubt, policy makers should not restrict the entry of competitive firms in such networks.
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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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  Decentralization : the way forward for rural development?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Although decentralization initiatives have a long history, much more needs to be understood about various components of decentralization before sound advice can be given to policy makers.Special strategies are needed to address the widespread incidence of rural poverty in developing countries, but initiatives aimed at improving the rural standard of living have not consistently reduced poverty.
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  Intergovernmental fiscal relations and poverty alleviation in Viet Nam

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Key issues of intergovernmental fiscal relations arise in all three aspects of Viet Nam's poverty alleviation strategy: broad based growth, human resource development, and safety nets.
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  FAO Plan of Action for Women in Development

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999
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  Decentralising Aid and its Management in Uganda: Lessons for Capacity-building at the Local Level

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999
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  Organising for a Philosophy of Internationalism and Multi-Disciplinarity in the Social Sciences: the Case of CROP, the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty

  Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, 1999
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  Water Allocation Mechanisms: Principles and Examples

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  What does it mean to treat water as an economic good? What does it mean to "allocate appropriately?"From the earliest times, water resources have been allocated on the basis of social criteria - maintaining the community by ensuring that water is available for human consumption, for sanitation, and for food production.

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