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    ‘Culture’ still impedes women’s rights across Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Every African state has signed at least one international treaty providing for the human rights of women. But women often experience discrimination because of their sex. Practices such as genital mutilation, forced marriage and polygamy, along with the inability to access property and education prevent them from enjoying their rights.
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    Ownership in practice (Paris, 27-28 September 2007)

    OECD Development Centre, 2007
    Experts agree that a development finance system must be owned by developing countries in order to reduce poverty and achieve sustained economic growth. Ahead of the 2008 High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra (Ghana), the OECD’s Global Forum on Development invited experts from South and North to an informal workshop to share their views on developing-country ownership.
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    Policy challenges for microfinance design and practice in Nigeria

    African Institute for Applied Economics, Nigeria, 2007
    This report summarises the findings from a forum held in Nigeria on policy challenges for microfinance design and practice in Nigeria. It argues that microfinance for Nigeria should include services for the poor enabling them to attain sustainable livelihoods and eventually exit from poverty. Some problems and bottlenecks identified include:
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    Fiscal policy and poverty alleviation: some policy options for Nigeria

    African Economic Research Consortium, 2007
    This study examines three different types of fiscal policies (transfers to poor households, targeting of government expenditure and import tariff adjustment) and their implication on income distribution, poverty reduction, resource allocation and output response. It argues that sectoral targeting is the most effective tool for poverty reduction.
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    Transparency and accountability in Africa’s extractive industries: the role of legislature

    National Democratic Institute, 2007
    This report identifies the challenges that African legislators face in overseeing their countries’ oil and mining industries, as well as best practices in use around the world and recommendations for future engagement.
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    Transparency & silence: a survey of access to information laws and practices in fourteen countries

    Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2006
    The ability of citizens to request and receive information on the workings of their government is crucial to ensure transparency and accountability. This report provides a snapshot on the state of access to information in fourteen countries. It provides the results of a study undertaken to discover how government offices and agencies respond to specific requests for information.
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    HIV prevention for especially vulnerable young people

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Vulnerability to HIV and AIDS depends on economic, political, social, cultural and religious factors as well as individual risk. Some groups of young people find themselves particularly vulnerable in the face of the epidemic.
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    Teacher motivation and incentives in Nigeria

    Eldis Document Store, 2005
    What is the cause of the teacher motivation crisis in Nigeria? This study is one of 12 country studies that examine how teacher motivation is affecting the achievement of Education for All in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
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    Perceptions of child labour among working children in Ibadan, Nigeria

    Consortium for Street Children, 2006
    This paper presents working children’s perspective of child labour, its benefits and disadvantages and the working children’s perceptions of themselves, and their aspirations for the future. It is based on a cross-sectional study that was carried out among working children in a large market in Ibadan, south-west Nigeria. Questionnaires were administered to all consenting children.
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    Lenders, not borrowers, are responsible for ‘illegitimate debt’

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Debt ‘relief’ focuses on the borrower – debt is cancelled if a country is too poor to repay. Now the emphasis is shifting to the lender – debt should be cancelled if creditors should never have lent money in the first place. Such ‘illegitimate debt’ includes loans to dictators and for bad projects.

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