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Searching with a thematic focus on Structural adjustment policies, Agriculture and food, Aid and debt, Debt, Debt and structural adjustment, Participation

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    Labor Market Adjustment in Canada and the United States

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
    Since the early 1980s, the aggregate unemployment rate in Canada has been persistently higher than that in the United States. However, existing research has failed to identify conclusively the proximate determinant for the persistent unemployment gap between these two countries.
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    The World Bank and IMF initiate a new reform package

    Participation & Civic Engagement Group, World Bank, 2000
    The article critically examines the World Bank's and IMF's new approach to poverty alleviation and debt relief, as it is to be carried out via the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) and the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF).
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    Adjustment debate leaves World Bank behind

    Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network, 2000
    The article explores the activities of the Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Network (SAPRIN). The main role of the SAPRIN was to to legitimize a role for citizens in economic decisionmaking and to help them mobilize to play that role effectively.
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    Agricultural change under structural adjustment and other shocks in Zambia

    Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997
    The agricultural sectors of many economies in Sub-Saharan Africa have been profoundly affected by policy changes comprising part of the wider process of structural adjustment. Government controls on exchange rates, interest rates, farm inputs and crop output prices have been liberalized.
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    Encouraging Sustainable Smallholder Agriculture in Southern Africa in the Context of Agricultural Services Reform

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998
    Summarises the results of six DFID funded country studies on encouraging sustainable agriculture in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. It emphasises the need for continuing government and donor support for sustainable increases in agricultural productivity which must underpin poverty alleviation.
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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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    Exporting corruption: privatisation, multinationals and bribery

    The Corner House, UK, 2000
    Deals with the globalisation of corruption. The article suggests that if corruption is growing throughout the world, it is largely a result of the rapid privatisation (and associated practices of contracting-out and concessions) of public enterprises worldwide.