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    The Status of Women in India, Kenya, Sudan and Tunisia

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004
    The institutional framework of a country plays a determining role in the well-being of the women who live in it. This paper examines the status of women in four countries: India, Kenya, Sudan and Tunisia.
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    The decline in primary school enrolment in Kenya

    Global Development Network, 2003
    Investments in education are widely recognized as a key component of a country’s development strategy.
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    Decentralisation: do poor people benefit from local government expenditure decisions?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Governments are increasingly focusing on decentralisation to reform and strengthen local government. This is often driven by demands from the public, national reconstruction programmes and, especially in Africa, donors. But is there evidence that this leads to pro-poor decisions that make better use of resources and reflect local needs?
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    Linking rural livelihoods to poverty reduction strategies in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) have been adopted by Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi in recent years. The resulting focus on decentralisation and participation has not had the desired success, however. How can PRSPs address the problems that poor people face in trying to escape poverty?
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    Does low external input agriculture reach the poor?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Many agricultural development projects support low external input technology (LEIT) as a way to combat rural poverty and unequal access to agricultural technology. However, is LEIT suitable to the conditions of resource-poor farmers?
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    Achieving sustainable water supply in rural Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Rural water supply projects have often proven unsustainable because they were just that – projects. Water supply has typically been considered a matter of engineering and suffered from the ‘design and build’ approach, which has failed to understand that supplying water is about much more than providing physical infrastructure.
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    Should home ownership be encouraged?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Most governments encourage their citizens to buy their own homes, yet the numbers of households renting and sharing accommodation is rising in many cities. Few governments, however, have been encouraging landlords to create more and better quality accommodation for rent.
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    Can local governments generate enough revenue to deliver services?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Lack of finance greatly constrains municipalities’ ability to deliver services to poor people. Public finance literature has paid little attention to the potential for redistribution at local government level.
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    In focus: AIDS

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2005
    This bulletin from the International Poverty Centre (IPC) highlights recent research on poverty and inequality, with a special focus on HIV and AIDS. The first article examines Thailand’s response to HIV and AIDS and finds that a strong political commitment and strategy can effectively halt the spread of HIV within years.
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    Final appraisal of the Mt. Elgon Regional Ecosystem Conservation Programme (MERECP)

    Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2005
    This report is an appraisal of the programme document brief "Mt. Elgon Regional Ecosystem Conservation Programme" (MERECP) in Kenya, prepared by International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Eastern Africa Regional Office (IUCN-EARO).

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