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  Investment opportunities in Western Africa: ICT and internet sectors

  Spintrack IT Advice, 2003

  Results of a study prepared for the IFC looking at investment opportunities in ICT and Internet sectors in Western Africa , covering the four countries of Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal.The report is available as:a regional market analysis: reporting on general conditions and the state of technology in the region.
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  Financing ICT4D projects: a way forward: issues paper

  Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2003

  This paper looks at how to finance ICT4D and the roles the different stakeholders could play.
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  The framework for service provision

  World Bank Publications, 2004

  Making services work for poor people involves changing not only service delivery arrangements but also public sector institutions. This chapter of the World Development Report 2004 builds an analytical and practical framework for using resources, whether internal or external, more effectively. It focuses on the services poor people need most: education, health, water, sanitation, and electricity.
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  Assuring food and nutrition security in Africa by 2020: a way forward from the 2020 Africa Conference

  2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This report is the draft outcome document of the Conference on Assuring Food and Nutrition Security in Africa by 2020 held from 1-3 April 2004.
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  ICTs for disadvantaged children and youths: lessons from Brazil and Ecuador

  World Bank, 2002

  This brief paper looks at some of the issues emerging in reaching children and youth in poor neighbourhoods with training in information and communication technologies (ICTs). These children and youth are unlikely to have access to computers at school or at home and their access to sources of information and knowledge of any kind is severely restricted.
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  Poverty and Environment Times (no. 2)

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2004

  A collection of articles on poverty and the environment. Content includes:understanding of environment and poverty linksenvironment and health: HIV/AIDS and the environmentIsraelis and Palestinians share water in a Friends of the Earth water project.
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  Summary report: the AIDS epidemic: a strategic simulation building public-private partnership

  Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, 2003

  This brochure presents the results of the AIDS Epidemic Strategic Simulation, which aimed to explore how public and private sector collaboration could help develop a more comprehensive response to HIV/AIDS.
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  Highly affected, rarely considered: the International Youth Parliament Commission’s report on the impacts of globalisation on young people

  International Youth Parliament, Oxfam, 2003

  This report presents the view of the Youth Commission on Globalisation, an International Youth Parliament (IYP) initiative, on some of the challenges that globalisation presents to the world.
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  ART treatment access and effective responses to HIVand AIDS: providing new momentum for accessible, effective and sustainable health systems

  EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2003

  This briefing outlines the major findings and issues from work carried out in southern Africa on equity in health sector responses to HIV and AIDS, particularly in terms of access to antiretroviral treatment (ART).Findings and conclusions include:social and economic inequalities and poverty are central to the AIDS epidemic in southern Africa: they shape the risk environments for HIV tra
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  Tourism in El Salvador: the competitiveness challenge

  Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development, 2002

  This paper analyses the current condition of the tourism sector in El Salvador, its competitiveness and its strengths and weaknesses. It examines how the El Salvador tourism sector can be improved to become an engine for development in the region.The paper notes that income from tourism represented 2% of GNP in 2000.

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