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  International nurse mobility: trends and policy implications

  World Health Organization, 2003

  This report from the World Health Organization (WHO) examines the trends and policy implications of nurses moving from the developing world to work in wealthier countries.
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  Poor people speak up to impact urban governance

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  For millions of people in developing country cities the informal sector provides the principal source of income. The relationship between city governance and informal traders is generally complex. Conventional legislation affecting the traders has often been inappropriate and has had detrimental effects on their livelihoods.
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  Can sustainable forestry contribute to development?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Sustainable forest management can, in theory, contribute to economic growth, protect the environment and benefit rural communities. However, is this ideal achievable?
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  Aid does raise economic growth in Africa – indirectly

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Despite receiving large amounts of aid, sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has a poor economic growth record. This has led some observers to conclude that aid to Africa has been ineffective. But this is not the case. Aid has contributed to growth in Africa, mainly by financing investment, which in turn contributes to growth.
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  Understanding the connections between ICTs and poverty

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  There has been little research into the actual and potential uses of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in poor communities. Discussions of the digital divide, information inequality and poverty need to be based on better understanding of the social, cultural and political dynamics that constrain or facilitate ICT interventions.
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  Urban governance and access to basic services

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  In many developing country cities poor people suffer from insecure and over-crowded housing as well as inadequate access to water and sanitation. Municipal governments play a primary role these areas, but often fail to provide basic services. As a consequence, poor people have explored informal ways of gaining access to water, land and shelter.
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  Migration of health professionals in six countries: a synthesis report

  Regional Office for Africa, World Health Organisation, 2004

  This report, published by the WHO Regional Office for Africa, examines migration of health professionals in six African countries (Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe) during 1991-2000. It finds that the number of registered health professionals other than nurses increased in all six countries.
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  Customary land delivery practices in African urban areas

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Urban poor people in sub-Saharan Africa, often excluded from formal systems of land management, increasingly obtain shelter through other means. Informal systems to deliver land in cities borrow features from rural customs.
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  Meeting of minds: youth sexual health programme leaders tackle stigma and discrimination

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  An international knowledge synthesis meeting under the UK Department for International Development's Safe Passages to Adulthood Programme brought together programme leaders and researchers from 11 resource-poor countries to discuss stigma, discrimination and human rights in relation to young people’s sexual and reproductive health (SRH).
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  The migration of physicians from sub-Saharan Africa to the United States of America: measures of the African brain drain

  Human Resources for Health, 2004

  This Human Resources for Health paper details the characteristics and trends in migration to the United States (US) of physicians trained in sub-Saharan Africa. Findings reveal that more than 23 per cent of US physicians were trained outside of the US, with a majority trained in low-income or lower middle-income countries.

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