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  Trends and prospects for poverty reduction in rural India: context and options

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper lays out the macroeconomic and structural contexts for poverty reduction in India and discusses opportunities and constraints in relation to public investment and service provision that have a bearing on rural livelihoods.
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  Extension, poverty and vulnerability: the scope for policy reform. Final Report of a study for the Neuchatel Initiative

  Overseas Development Institute, 2002

  This paper reviews pro-poor agricultural extension policies, building on an earlier inception report of the same study. Based on a livelihoods approach, the authors argue that policies towards agriculture, rural development and extension have focused exclusively on increased productivity of land, as opposed to enhancing labour productivity, employment creation and vulnerability reduction.
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  Agricultural and rural development policy in Latin America: new directions and new challenges (de Janvry / Sadoulet / Key)

  Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Berkeley, 1999
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  Endogenous distortions in product and labor markets

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Product and labor market distortions move in the same direction in response to economic and social changes. Conditionality by foreign agencies should target product market distortions.
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  Rural finance for growth and poverty alleviation in Pakistan

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  To promote agricultural --- and hence economic --- growth, Pakistan must make more credit available to agricultural smallholders, the rural non farm sector, and women. Subsidizing interest rates is not the way to help marginal borrowers.
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  Do labor market regulations affect labor earnings in Ecuador?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997

  Although Ecuador may have the most cumbersome labor market regulations in Latin America, these are not a major source of segmentation of the labor market. The reason: the benefits mandated are fully fungible with wages. Ecuadorian labor costs are said to be high because of a large array of mandated benefits.
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  The Poor and their Money: what have we learned?

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  Money markets ought to allocate finance where it is most needed, and thus contribute to greater productivity, employment and the reduction of poverty. Yet in practice they have not performed this function at all well. Vast segments of the population are still unserved, inappropriate financial services are offered and inflexible contracts are extended.
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  Global hunger and food security after the World Food Summit (ODI)

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999
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  Promoting economic growth in Sri Lanka: lessons from East Asia

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Why, despite solid progress in human development and in the reduction of consumption poverty, has Sri Lanka's per capita income fallen far behind the dynamic East Asian economies?
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  Child Labour in commercial agriculture in Africa

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 1999

  This paper seeks to review briefly the available evidence on the extent and types of child labour in the commercial agriculture sector in the Africa region. Information and data are included from case-studies carried out on the child labour situation in commercial agriculture in Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, United Republic of Tanzania and Zimbabwe.

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