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Rising food prices cause considerable policy dilemmas for developing country governments. Letting domestic prices … poor households lacking access to social safety nets. Alternatively, governments can use food subsidies or export …
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emerged from great inflation and output instability into a period of remarkably low inflation associated with a great …
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The Corruption Perceptions Index is constructed by the Transparency International. The Corruption Perceptions Index measures the perceived levels of public sector corruption in countries worldwide. Based on expert opinion, countries are scored from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean). Some...
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This Policy Brief discusses whether Bangladesh should continue to pursue a national food security strategy based on self-reliance or return to its earlier policy of food self-sufficiency through domestic production. It draws on the results of a study commissioned by the UK Department for...
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The record of different post reform governments in meeting their targets and improving both delivery and finances is …
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Commission should make a fair assessment of the union as well as state governments, ignoring the asymmetries in the wording of …
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. Within each of these transitions, governments need not only to increase investments directly but also to cultivate an …
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This paper seeks primarily to establish some benchmarks for policy and law for displacement and rehabilitation in India. It will do this by looking briefly at the actual experience of displacement due to big dams in India in 50 years, the resistance to big dams, and also by examining some of the...
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Right now, governments around the world are spending record amounts of money to kick- start their economies in response …
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While in their purchase operations, as in all other activities, governments endeavour to maximise the use of scarce …
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