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  Marrying farmer cooperation and contract farming for service provision in a liberalising sub-Saharan Africa

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999

  The paper explores ways of improving the performance of cooperation and contract farming, as well as the scope for linkages between them.
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  The implications for loan/aid resumption for poverty eradication and citizens participation in Kenya: analysis and recommendations

  NGO Working Group on the World Bank, 2000

  The policy paper identifies some of the issues that should be taken into account when the Government of Kenya (GoK) resumes aid/loan relations with the IMF and World Bank (WB).
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  Eighth Session of the ECA Conference of Ministers of Finance (Finance for Development in Africa - An issues paper)

  Financing for Development, 2000

  The aim of this Issues Paper is to review the mix of actions necessary to finance the developmental goals of Africa and to present policy options for the consideration of African Finance Ministers.Policy recommendations:While it is essential to mobilise all domestic resources to reduce the resource gap this will only be feasible in the long term.
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  Provision of health services in Tanzania in the twenty first century: lessons from the past

  Institute of Development Studies, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 2000

  This paper examines former President Mwalimu J.K.Nyerere's role and contributions to improving the health of the Tanzanian people from independence to when he stepped down as president in the mid 1980s. The paper tries to identify lessons from the Nyerere era that can be applied to better the on-going health sector reforms.
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  Roads and realities: how to promote road contracting in developing countries

  Water Engineering and Development Centre, 2000

  Book available in full-text contains ideas, methods and techniques for the provision of local road networks. It is aimed at policy-makers, construction professionals and students involved in the practical side of the sector and development specialists in and outside the sector.
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  Volta Basin Water Balance

  Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung, Bonn, 2000

  The paper presents the water balances pertaining to the flux of water through the Volta River Basin and a black box model of the rainfall/runoff relationship for estimating the river flows into the Akosombo Reservoir.As the water demand has approached supply, the tradeoffs between competing water uses are likely to intensify.
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  One kind of freedom: poverty dynamics in post-Apartheid South Africa

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000

  This article explores the legacy of apartheid, which had much to do with the extraordinary levels of inequality and human insecurity. It investigates this subject through the first ever nationally representative living standards survey undertaken in South Africa in 1993.
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  Selling to eat: petty trading and traders in peri-urban areas of sub-saharan Africa

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999

  This article explores the increasing proliferation of petty traders, in Africa's sprawling peri-urban areas.Conclusions:The proliferation of petty traders in most peri-urban areas can be interpreted as an unhealthy symptom of economic underdevelopment.
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  Rural water tenure in East Africa: a comparative study of legal regimes and community responses to changing tenure patterns in Tanzania and Kenya

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000

  This paper looks at the water policy of Tanzania, and makes comparisons with the situation in Kenya. It focuses especially on recent attempts to move towards a participatory, demand-management approach to rural water supply.
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  Zimbabwe election scenario: tough test for observers

  Southern African Research and Documentation Centre, 2000

  Zimbabwe's fifth parliamentary elections present more than a tough challenge for observer groups from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) who must reconcile the disquiet over the selective accreditation of international monitors, an electoral process marred by violence and intimidation, and the impact of all this on transparency and the voter's freedom to pick a party of choice.Th

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