CIFOR’s Forests and Governance Programme examines how decisions about forests and forestdependent people are made and implemented in order to promote the participation and empowerment of disadvantaged groups; the accountability and transparency of decision-makers and more powerful groups; and dem...
Capistrano, D.
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Kanninen, M.
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Guariguata, M.R.
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Barr, C.
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Sunderland, T.C.H.
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Raitzer, David A.
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[Revitalizing the United Nations Forum on Forests: critical issues and ways forward]
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Revitalizing the United Nations Forum on Forests: critical issues and ways forward
Cossalter, C.
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Barr, C.
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[Fast growing plantation development and industrial wooed demand in China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region]
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Fast growing plantation development and industrial wooed demand in China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region
In 1997, a major financial crisis struct Asia. In the wake of that crisis, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank provided large loans to the Indonesian government in return for their commitment to implement policy reforms intended to stabilize the economy and rekindle growth. Those r...
Barr, C.
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[Banking on sustainability: structural adjustment and forestry reform in post-Suharto Indonesia]
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Banking on sustainability: structural adjustment and forestry reform in post-Suharto Indonesia
Bank Mandiri, the largest bank in Indonesia, was the latest government institution to provide financial subsidies to Indonesian forestry conglomerates by writing off major part of their debts. Before Bank Mandiri, IBRA, under the pressure by the IMF for the “quick sales” of its assets, had writte...
Barr, C.
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Setiono, B.
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[Writing off Indonesia’s forestry debt: how the IMF, the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency and Bank Mandiri are financing forest destruction]
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Writing off Indonesia’s forestry debt: how the IMF, the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency and Bank Mandiri are financing forest destruction
Since the collapse of Soeharto’s New Order regime in May 1998, Indonesia’s national, provincial, and district governments have engaged in an intense struggle over how authority and the power embedded in it, should be shared. How this ongoing struggle over authority in the forestry sector will ult...
Barr, C.
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Resosudarmo, I.A.P.
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Dermawan, A.
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McCarthy, J.F.
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Moeliono, M.
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Setiono, B.
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[Decentralization of forest administration in Indonesia: implications for forest sustainability, economic development and community livelihoods]
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Decentralization of forest administration in Indonesia: implications for forest sustainability, economic development and community livelihoods