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  Peasant Cotton Cultivation and Marketing Behaviour in Tanzania since Liberalisation

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Discusses the debate around structural adjustment and African agriculture, the history of the Tanzanian cotton sector and farming systems in the main cotton growing area of the country before reporting the results of a small survey of cultivators carried out at the end of the 1997/8 seed cotton marketing season.
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  New technologies and the global race for knowledge

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1999

  The recent great strides in technology present tremendous opportunities for human developmenbut achieving that potential depends on how technology is used.
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  Failed Magic or Social Context?: Market Liberalization and the Rural Poor in Malawi

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1996

  One of the key questions in the debates swirling around structural adjustment programs in Africa is their effects on the poor. Have these programs "benefited ... the rural poor disproportionately", as concluded in Adjustment in Africa (World Bank 1994)? The answer for rural families studied over a period of years in Malawi is no.
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  The environmental and social impacts of economic liberalization on corn production in Mexico

  Oxfam, 2001

  Examines Mexico’s effort to liberalise and “modernise” its agricultural sector, and in particular its domestic production of corn.Conclusions:liberalisation has failed to achieve the environmental and social improvements it promised.
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  Analysis of policy reforms and structural adjustment programs in Malawi with emphasis on agriculture and trade

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996

  This study’s emphasis on agriculture’s elevated role in Malawi’s medium-term adjustment strategy and its articulation of the sector’s key role as the engine of growth and employment aptly makes an important point. Dr.
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  Structural adjustment and Moroccan agriculture: an assessment of the reforms in the sugar and cereal sectors

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  This paper reviews the process of agricultural policy reforms in Morocco in the 1980's, with particular emphasis on the cereals and sugar sub-sectors.
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  Zambia: encouraging sustainable smallholder agriculture

  Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1997

  Main purpose of this report is to present a balanced assessment of prospects for sustainable growth in smallholder agriculture in Zambia in the light of recent reforms. Given their historical underdevelopment in Zambia, and policy emphasis on the interface between state and market, the report also focuses particularly on the role of NGOs.
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  Malawi: Services and policies needed to support sustainable smallholder agriculture

  Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1997

  Malawi’ s smallholder agriculture is facing a crisis, particularly in the more populated south. There is an insidious combination of land shortage, continuous cultivation of maize, declining soil fertility, low yields, deforestation, poverty and high population growth rate.
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  China's Unfinished Open-Economy Reforms: Liberalisation of Services

  OECD Development Centre, 1999

  During the 1990s, China has experienced a surge in imports of services, particularly those of communication, insurance and other business services, despite the fact that the authorities have maintained a plethora of restrictive measures limiting access to the service sector.
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  Export Crop Liberalisation in Africa

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999

  The transfer can be considered to have been reasonably successful so far. Producer returns have generally been higher than under the former marketing arrangements and payments more prompt. But in many countries, however, the changes have led to problems, particularly with regard to the supply of production inputs.

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