Front Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Organization -- Chapter 2 Basic Infrastructure Diagnostic for Public Schools -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Brief Diagnostic of Paraguay's Education System -- State of Basic Infrastructure in Schools --...

International Financial Institutions have advocated the privatization of integrated agricultural monopsonies in developing countries with the hope that competition between private firms under a contract farming system would reduce inefficiencies in production and enable farmers to obtain a...

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"The increase in food prices represents a major crisis for the world's poor. This paper aims to review the evidence on the potential impact of higher food prices on poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, and examines the extent to which policy responses will benefit the poor. The paper shows that rising...