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Climate change, water and food security
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E. Ludi (ed)
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Overseas Development Institute [ES],
2009
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Agriculture constitutes the backbone of most African economies. Climate change is, however, posing the greatest threat to agriculture and food security in the 21st century, particularly in many of the...
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Climate change, water resources and WASH: a scoping study
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R. Calow (ed);H. Bonsor (ed);L. Jones (ed)
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Overseas Development Institute [ES],
2011
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It has been predicted that water will be the primary medium through which early climate change impacts will be felt by people, ecosystems and economies. However, scientific analysis and water policy d...
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Disaster Risk Reduction and 'built-in' resilience: towards overarching principles for construction practice
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L. Bosher;A. Dainty
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Overseas Development Institute [ES],
2011
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This paper examines the role and position of the construction sector in addressing disaster risk reduction. It summarises some of the cross-cutting themes that emerge from a diverse body of literature...
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Rural Africa at the crossroads: livelihoods, practices and policies
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D. Bryceson (ed)
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Overseas Development Institute [ES],
2000
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The last two decades of the 20th century have been a period of change for sub-Saharan African economies. Structural Adjustment Programmes have triggered a huge, unplanned income diversification respon...
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El Salvador’s progress on governance: negotiation, political inclusion and post-war transition
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D. Harris (ed);M. Foresti (ed)
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Overseas Development Institute [ES],
2010
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El Salvador experienced a violent civil war between 1980 and 1991 due to more than a century of systemic social, political and economic exclusion of large segments of the population. It was also a bat...
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States of fragility: stabilisation and its implications for humanitarian action
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S. Collinson (ed);S. Elhawary (ed);R. Muggah (ed)
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Overseas Development Institute [ES],
2010
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Stabilization includes a combination of military, humanitarian, political and economic activities to control, contain and manage areas affected by armed conflict and complex emergencies. This paper ex...
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The economic impact of competition
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K. Ellis;R. Singh
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Overseas Development Institute [ES],
2010
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This article tries to answer the question how does competition affect market outcomes, such as prices, innovation and access to services? In this context, the paper presents the findings of cross-b...
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Evidence in aligning aid information with recipient country budgets
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S. Moon (ed);Z. Mills (ed)
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Overseas Development Institute [ES],
2010
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A large amount of donor aid in developing countries is spent without the knowledge of governments. The Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda for Action emphasize the importance of aligning aid with r...
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Millennium Development Goals report card: learning from progress
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Overseas Development Institute [ES],
2010
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This paper reviews the progress on three indicators of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), beside some factors contributing to that progress. The paper shows that most countries are making progres...
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Budget support, aid instruments and the environment: the country context Tanzania country case study
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C. Luttrell;I. Pantaleo
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Overseas Development Institute [ES],
2008
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