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Trading Up: Building cooperation between farmers and traders in Africa
KIT and IIRR are proud to present Trading Up, the second book in their series about value chains in Africa. Following on the success of Chain Empowerment, which focused on farmer organizations and their support agencies (NGOs), this book looks at the role of traders in the value chain.

In much of Africa, smallholder farmers face serious difficulties selling their produce. But farmers, development agencies and governments all treat the traders who market their goods with suspicion and mistrus more...
July 12, 2008
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This relatively short, data-filled article contrasts the development experience of the rapidly growing countries in Asia with slower-growing Middle Eastern counties. He finds growth in his model Asian countries was associated with a virtuous cycle of export oriented growth and rapid technology acquisition, while the Middle Eastern countries were much less oriented toward manufactured product exports and had much less active patterns of technology imports. HOWARD PACK, the Spring 2008 edition of more...

Added by  John Daly  July 21, 2008

The Millennium Project publishes a report periodically assessing the current state of the world and projecting developments in the future. The 2008 report is to be published in August 2008; the website provides information on the report and a ten page summary. The report and accompanying CD are expensive, but the summary can be downloaded free. by Jerome C. Glenn, Theodore J. Gordon, and Elizabeth Florescu.

Added by  John Daly  July 19, 2008

'The interest of the international development community in ‘Pro-Poor Growth’ appears to have waned.1 This Development
Viewpoint examines the pros and cons of adopting its most popular replacement, ‘inclusive growth’.
A ‘pro-poor’ approach did have the advantage of focus: concentrating on the most deprived. Judging progress involved attaching greater weight to the advance of the poor (e.g., “the
incomes of the poor grew faster than those of the non-poor”).
But what about the more...

Added by  Emmanuel Asomba  July 17, 2008

Published by the German Bishops' Conference Research Group on the Universal Tasks of the Church:

The extent of the poverty in many developing and transformation countries does not reduce the need of people who are unemployed in the industrialised countries, for instance here in Germany, who only find precarious employment, or who must survive as poor people in a rich country. One thing should however not be set off against the other. At the same time, there is a narrowing of the viewpoint in more...

Added by  Markus Demele  July 15, 2008

Four new LIRNE studies provide feedback to regulators across different categories of information provision. These regional assessments of national telecom regulatory authority websites in Latin America, the Caribbean and North America, Asia and Africa, seek to illuminate best practices for using NRA websites as vehicles to provide information about the sector to the full range of stakeholders. National regulatory authorities have a key role to play as information society drivers and facilitators more...

Added by  amy mahan  July 14, 2008

Tourism has eclipsed traditional industries and livelihood options in many parts of the world and has emerged as the most important industry in several countries. However, studies that seek to understand its impacts on economy, environment, and culture are constrained by methodological and theoretical limitations. One of the reasons for the ambiguities and inadequacies in the area of tourism research has been its inability to properly appreciate the importance of the ethical dimensions of human more...

Added by  Carmen Villegas Caballero  July 11, 2008

In this Technical Paper, the author argues that fiscal policy is more effective than monetary policy, whether the exchange rate is fixed or flexible.

Added by  International Poverty Centre (IPC/UNDP)  July 11, 2008

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