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  Biotechnology in Crops: Issues for the developing world

  Oxfam, 1998

  Overview of issues and actors in the debate on genetically modified crops.
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  The Shift from Development to Emergency Assistance and its Impact on Poverty and Nutrition

  1999

  Increasing amounts of bilateral and multilateral aid are being used to respond to macroeconomic shocks, political instability and natural disasters. This paper sets out a conceptual framework for considering the consequences of this trend. There are three levels of analysis: provision; coverage; and assessment of impact.
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  Reforming Institutions for Service Delivery: A Framework for Development Assistance with an Application to the Health, Nutrition, and Population Portfolio [of the World Bank]

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Argues for greater "institutional pluralism" in how the World Bank does business in the infrastructure, rural, and social sectors.
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  Guidelines for Participatory Nutrition Projects

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1995

  Guidelines to help development staff working at community level to promote the design and implementation of participatory nutrition projects.Designed for use by professional staff from different technical and institutional backgrounds, who have had formal technical training or education, and who either work at the community level or are responsible for community development activities.
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  Participatory Project Design: Its Implications for Evaluation. A Case Study from El Salvador

  Mosaic.net International, Inc., 1995

  Draws lessons from a project designed in El Salvador based on participatory principles and how this can be applied to the field of evaluation. Indeed, evaluations using participatory approaches can be more effective when the project has been designed in a participatory manner from the beginning.
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  Improving soil fertility management in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Africa Region Findings, World Bank, 1998

  The way to get farmers to improve soil fertility is to address their constraints systematically and comprehensively, with clear understanding at each step. This can be done only by adapting technology to the farmer’s reality, and by developing the technology in the farmer’s field on the basis of close and continuous consultation. Ownership of the technology is key to adoption [author]
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  How rich is China and how fast has the economy grown? : Statistical controversies

  National Centre for Development Studies, Australia, 1998

  Reviews recent major studies on China’s national accounts and growth performance, evaluates alternative estimates of China’s national income and growth rates, and discusses their implications.
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  Solutions outside the Box: can we finally implement the human right to food

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  ODI seminar in the series "A Rights-based Approach to Development: from Theory to Practice", including the paper presented to the UNDP/UNHCHR/Government of Norway Symposium on Human Development and Human Rights in Oslo, 2-3 October 1998
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  Participatory Impact Monitoring (PIM)

  German Appropriate Technology Exchange, 1996

  Short, simply written pamphlets explaining methods and justifications for participatory monitoringSeries includes: Group based impact monitoringNGO-Based impact monitoringApplication examples
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  Toward Distinguishing Empowerment Evaluation and Placing It In A Larger Context

  American Evaluation Association, 1997

  Critique of Fetterman's empowerment evaluation methodology Fostering self-determination is the defining focus of empowerment evaluation and the heart of its explicit political and social change agenda.

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