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  Land reform and sustainable livelihoods in South Africa's Eastern Cape province

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This paper examines the experiences of implementation of land reform policies in the Eastern Cape through a series of case studies.It looks at how attempts at redistribution, restitution and land tenure reform have resulted in a variety of models and approaches.
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  Sweet like chocolate?: making the coffee and cocoa trade work for biodiversity and livelihoods

  Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, 2003

  This paper studies the cases of cocoa and coffee to assess whether their systems of production and trade meet the needs and aspirations of poor rural populations in the developing world, and minimize environmental damage. Findings include:
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  Does subsidized childcare help poor working women in urban areas?: evaluation of a government sponsored programme in Guatemala City

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper presents an evaluation and impact assessment (1998) of the urban Hogares Comunitarios Program (HCP), Guatemala, a government-sponsored pilot programme designed to alleviate poverty by providing working parents with low-cost, quality childcare within their community.
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  Poverty and survival strategies in Ethiopia during economic reform

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2000

  This report summarises the activities and findings of a CSAE study which examined the consequences of the economic reform programme on poverty and survival strategies in Ethiopia since 1989, with an emphasis on the rural economy.Based on a very detailed household panel data set, the study attempted to disentangle the effects of random events, such as good weather, from the effects of the reform
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  Targeting food insecure households: an Indian experiment

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This paper presents an alternative, participatory approach to the identification of food insecure households at the community level. This approach is introduced as a response to the different food assistance schemes currently implemented by the Government of India, which show a lacklustre performance due to inappropriate targeting.
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  Rethinking food aid to fight AIDS

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) highlights the implications of the AIDS pandemic for food aid strategy and programming.
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  Food aid and child nutrition in rural Ethiopia

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper uses a unique panel data set from Ethiopia to examine the determinants of participation in and receipts of food aid through free distribution (FD) and food-for-work (FFW).
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  Risk sharing and public transfers

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2002

  This paper investigates public transfers in the form of food aid for farm households in Ethiopia to test for the presence of community risk-sharing arrangements.Findings include:both perfect risk-sharing and autarky are rejected, suggesting partial risk-sharing using informal transfersthere is evidence consistent with crowding out of informal insurance linked to food aid programmes
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  Poverty, institutions, peasant band conservation investment in Northern Ethiopia

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003

  This PhD thesis provides an econometric analysis of various aspects of the rural economy in Northern Ethiopia.The thesis consists of five papers:an in-depth analysis of poverty, its distribution, dynamics and its correlates within the framework of the role of economic reforms on poverty reduction in a remote, unstable and environmentally troubled regionlooks at the issue of the effi
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  Health, shocks and poverty persistence

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2003

  This paper, published by World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), reviews the evidence on the impact of droughts and other serious “shocks” (transitory events which worsen the economic situation of a household) on child and adult health, focusing particularly on Zimbabwe and Ethiopia.

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