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NGO’s and the Institutional Development of Membership Organisations

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Deindustrialisation in Southern Africa? A General Equilibrium Analysis

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A computable general equilibrium (CGE) model based on 37 sectors in 12 countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is used to explore the welfare effects and the changes in employment structure of the agreed SADC Free Trade Area (FTA).

South Asia’s Export Structure in a Comparative Perspective

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World-wide cross-country regressions are used to examine South Asia's export structure through the lens of Heckscher-Ohlin trade theory. By comparison with other regions, South Asia's exports are unusually concentrated on labour-intensive manufactures.

Putnam in India: Is Social Capital a Meaningful and Measurable Concept at Indian State Level?

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In a seminal and provocative book, Putnam argues that levels of trust, interest in public affairs and political participation are the most important explanatory features of the differential institutional performance across Italian regions over time.

The Role of Buyers in the Development of the Hotel Furniture Industry in Kenya

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This paper shows that Kenya's leading hotels source 95% of their furniture from local manufacturers. And it shows why and how the buyers, that is the hotels and their designers, helped these manufacturers to produce customised furniture to international quality requirements.

Sustainable Rural Livelihoods in Mali

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This report describes research on Sustainable Rural Livelihoods which was carried out in two villages in Mali, selected to represent the rainfed cereal and cotton producing regions.

Institutions, Relations and Outcomes

This book develops an analytical framework and a set of tools which can assist planners, as well as trainers, to ensure that gender is systematically integrated into different aspects of their work.

Distinguishing the Chronically from the Transitorily Poor: Evidence from Pakistan

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Anti-poverty programs often seek to improve their impact by targeting households for assistance according to one or more criteria. These are, however, often based upon measurements of key welfare indicators, such as income or consumption, in a single time period. This paper investigates whether it is possible to improve the accuracy of targeting by distinguishing between the chronically and transitorily poor on the basis of household characteristics.

Assessing the Poverty Bias of Growth Methodology and an Application to Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh

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Despite widespread agreement that economic policy in developing countries should promote pro-poor growth, there is relatively little consensus regarding the definition of pro-poor growth.

Thinking Strategically About Politics and Poverty

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What are the prospects that governments and political systems in developing countries will be pro-poor? This synthesis of a large...