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    Eliminating world poverty: making globalisation work for the poor

    DFID White Paper on Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalisation Work for the Poor, 2000
    While progress has been made over the years in development, many challenges yet remain in order to make globalisation work for the poor.
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    More equitable pricing for essential drugs: what do we mean and what are the issues?

    World Health Organization, 2001
    This paper examines differential pricing (also referred to as "equity pricing" or "preferential pricing"): the concept that essential drugs prices should in some way reflect countries’ ability to pay as measured by their level of income.
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    Business Partners for Development: natural resources cluster quarterly update No. 6

    Business Partners for Development, 2000
    This article covers a case study of the 'partnering' process undertaken by the Sarshatali coal mining project, India, and the outcomes for business, communities and governance.The main findings regarding the partnering process are as follows:Senior managers within the company were essential to 'champion' the process of partnership building.Developing trust between the partner
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    Community based rural development: reducing rural poverty from the ground up

    Rural Development Strategy Team, World Bank, 2001
    This article investigates Community Based Rural Development, which is an approach to reducing rural poverty that promotes collective action by communities and puts them in control of development interventions by making community based organizations (CBOs) driving forces in the process.Conclusions:CBOs directly manage most project resources.
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    Global farming systems study: challenges and priorities to 2030

    Rural Development Strategy Team, World Bank, 2001
    For more than a decade, the proportion of internationally supported public investment directed at agriculture and the rural sector in developing countries has been declining. Moreover, this is occuring at a time in which the process of globalisation is changing patters of trade and investment, placing agricultural producers and communities under tremendous pressure to adapt in order to survive.
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    Democratic decentralisation

    Center for International Development, Research Triangle Institute (RTI), 1997
    suggests that the strategic objective that democratic decentralization serves is to broaden legitimacy, transparency, and accountability within the political systems of the countries where the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing development assistance.Article explores Research Triangle Institute's (RTI) engagement in a task to clarify how and under what circu
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    Kingship, bureaucracy and participation: competing moralities of ‘decentralisation’ in south Indian irrigation

    School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2000
    This paper attempts a long view of decentralisation in irrigation management in parts of south India. In doing so, it has attempted to place present day ‘Participatory Irrigation Management’ in perspective, particularly by drawing attention to antecedent forms of ‘decentralisation’ and suggesting that some of the practices and moralities involved persist today.
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    Enhancing the private sector contribution to post-war recovery in poor countries:part 1:comparative analysis

    Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2000
    Violent conflict has become more frequent in developing countries in the last two decades, and international support for peace making has become more important. Yet, post-war reconstruction in these countries has proven to be difficult and prolonged despite high levels of foreign aid.
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    Africans query World Bank, IMF governance mantra

    Bretton Woods Project, 2001
    This article discusses the recent trip of President James Wolfensohn and IMF Managing Director Horst Koehler to Mali and Tanzania to meet 22 African leaders in February. The theme of their visit was discussions concerning good governance.Ironically, the efforts to listen to civil society groups directly were minimal.
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    Why biotech patents are patently absurd: scientific briefing on TRIPs and related issues

    Institute of Science in Society, UK, 2001
    This scientific briefing explains why the patenting of life-forms and living processes (as covered under Article 27.3(b) of TRIPs) should be revoked and banned.Concludes that all biotech patents should be rejected on the following grounds:all involve biological processes not under the direct control of the scientist.

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