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

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  Workers in transition

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  The outlook is bright for transition economies that are fully embracing market based reform, including appropriate, coherently applied labor policies. In other transition economies, a mix of paternalism and populism could produce partial, timid reform that makes them increasingly unproductive and corrupt.
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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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  The ABC of the PRSP

  Bretton Woods Project, 2000

  This briefing paper tries to answer the following questions:What is the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP)?How does the PRSP relate to WB and IMF lending?What is the connection between the PRSP and the HIPC Debt Initiative?What does ownership mean?Is there a tension between qualifying for debt relief and allowing time to develop a good PRSP?What will an interim PRS
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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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  The Urban Labour Market During Structural Adjustment: Ethiopia 1990-1997

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998

  Paper examines the effects of reform and structural adjustment on the urban labour market in Ethiopia using a combination of cross-section and panel data based on surveys conducted both pre- and post- reform. During this period Ethiopia has seen impressive growth in GDP but little in the way of private investment.
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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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  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.