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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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  Significance of rural non farm sector in enterprise development

  Eldis Document Store, 2001

  This paper argues that the Indian government could be more actively involved in creating the necessary environment for effective public-private partnerships.
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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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  A strategic approach to agricultural research program planning in Sub-Saharan Africa (MSU)

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1999
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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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  Central America and the North American Free Trade Agreement /How Does the North American Free Trade Agreement Affect Central America? / Edward E.Leamer ... [et al.]

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  NAFTA seems like a very troubling agreement for Central America, especially in apparel and textiles. Losses from NAFTA depend on the economic size of Mexico. Central America can gain from NAFTA provided Mexico is "big enough" to satisfy completely U.S. import demands and Central America can redirect its products from U.S.
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  In search of price rigidities : recent sectoral evidence from Argentina

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Monetary and exchange rate policies have different effects on relative prices among economic sectors --- and thus significantly influence the real side of the economy.The hypothesis that the price adjustment to nominal shocks is instantaneous has been part of the monetarist approach explaining the inflationary process in Argentina.But Morisset and Revoredo argue that monetary and exchange ra
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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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