ELDIS DEVELOPMENT REPORTER
No 11, November 2000
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Here is our selection of the latest additions to ELDIS, the gateway
to information on development. All documents are available free
on the Internet (or you can try our email-only option).
OUR EDITOR'S SELECTION FROM ITEMS ADDED THIS MONTH
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Full Internet access details below. Each item includes links to
further Internet materials on the same subject.
1. Budgeting for poverty reduction in Kenya: IPAR's contribution on
Kenya's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
2. Policies to promote non-farm rural employment in Latin America
3. Company-community forestry partnerships: a growing
phenomenon
4. How donor funds could support grassroots microcredit
institutions working towards the Microcredit Summit's goals
5. Oil price increase [in the Philippines]: can something be done to
minimize its adverse effects?
6. What should macroeconomists know about health care policy: a
primer
7. Landmines: progress and evaluation
8. Malawi: an EC/NGO Strategy Document on food security
9. Negotiating the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM): a
North=96South perspective
10. How does public spending affect growth and poverty? The
experience of China
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ACCESS DETAILS:
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1. Budgeting for poverty reduction in Kenya: IPAR's contribution on
Kenya's Poverty Reduction
Strategy Paper (PRSP) 2000 - 2003
Wagacha, M.; Kimuyu, P.; Owino, W.; Omiti, J.
Institute of Policy Analysis and Research (IPAR), Kenya, 2000
Questions whether a social and development impact can be
expected from the marriage of policies for poverty reduction with
macro-economic changes in budget proposals
http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/kenpov.htm
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2. Policies to promote non-farm rural employment in Latin America
Berdegue, J.A.; Reardon, T.; Escobar, G.; Echeverria, R.
Overseas Development Institute (ODI), 2000
Trends, key characteristics and recommendations for non-
agricultural rural development
http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/nonfarm.htm
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3. Company-community forestry partnerships: a growing
phenomenon
Mayers, J.
Unasylva, FAO, 2000
Out-grower schemes, joint ventures and other formal and informal
partnership arrangements in relation to trees outside forests
http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/compfor.htm
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4. How donor funds could better reach and support grassroots
microcredit institutions working towards the Microcredit Summit's
goal and core themes
Yunus, M.
Microcredit Summit, 1999
How can funds for microfinance be raised and better spent?
http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/yunus.htm
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5. Oil price increase [in the Philippines]: can something be done to
minimize its adverse effects?
Philippines Institute of Development Studies (PIDS), 2000
Policy options for the Philippines
http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/philoil.htm
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6. What should macroeconomists know about health care policy: a
primer
Hsiao, W.
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Working Papers, 2000
Highlighting essential information for IMF macroeconomists
http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/primer.htm
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7. Landmines: progress and evaluation
Two reports from International Campaign to Ban Landmines and
PRIO, 2000
http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/mines.htm
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8. Malawi: NGO Strategy Document
Lahoz, C.
Food Security in Malawi and Mozambique, 2000
An EC/NGO partnership for food security in Malawi: how might it
work?
http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/malawi.htm
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9. Negotiating the CDM: a North=96South perspective:
recommendations on the draft negotiating
text for the sixth conference of parties (COP-6)
Tata Energy Research Institute / Pembina Institute for Appropriate
Development, 2000
How could the clean development mechanism work in practice?
http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/climchange.htm
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10. How does public spending affect growth and poverty? The
experience of China
Fan, S.; Zhang, X.; Zhang, L,
Global Development Network (GDN), 2000
What lies behind China's relative success in poverty alleviation?
http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/fan.htm
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