A top-flight German football club has suspended one of its star players following revelations that he owns the MV Etireno, the ship allegedly involved in the trafficking of child-workers off the west African coast last month.

The Zambian president, Frederick Chiluba, has defied his own high court and expelled his vice-president and eight other cabinet ministers from the ruling party for opposing plans for a constitutional amendment allowing him to cling to power for another five years.

This report examines the case of Malawi, where several institutions offer credit to poor, smallholder farmers to allow them to buy fertilizer, seeds, and other inputs. Diagne and Zeller show that for credit to work effectively, the conditions surrounding credit programs must be right--that is, they must reflect the actual opportunities and constraints faced by poor farmers.

In this report, Peter Wobst considers how Tanzania's structural adjustment reforms of the late 1980s and early 1990s affected agriculture, as well as growth, equity, and poverty alleviation--in others words, the economic well-being of the people in this extremely poor country. The report also presents a computable general equilibrium model of the Tanzanian economy and an updated social accounting matrix.

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