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    More people, less water? Population and water resources in Tanzania

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What are the links between changes in population and the availability of water? Do people move house to obtain better water supplies? How do urban migrants cope with water shortages? Research at the London School of Tropical Hygiene and Medicine tries to answer these questions using a case study in Mwanza, northern Tanzania.
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    New solution? Can a sectoral approach to education meet international targets?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The late 1990s saw a shift in many funding agency education support packages from relatively small, often stand-alone education projects towards sector wide approaches (SWA or SWAps). When and how are such larger, broad-based system support programmes effective?
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    Is the middle missing from Africa's financial markets? Tracking impacts of financial integration

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Structural adjustment policy packages in sub- Saharan Africa lay heavy emphasis on rolling back state regulations controlling finance and investment. Yet the spurt in development these liberalisation and deregulation processes were expected to trigger has not so far materialised.
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    Who wants to be empowered? Local perspectives on participatory development from Tanzania

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What does participation mean at a local community level? Just who participates in development projects and why do they choose to do so in the first place? Does participation in NGO projects improve women's status?
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    Can Africa afford free trade? Liberalisation, industrial change and prosperity don't always mix

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Trade liberalisation involves the lifting of currency restrictions, import controls and other barriers to free trade. It has been widely hailed by economic advisors in the World Bank and IMF as a 'quick fix' capable of reviving industrial development by attracting inward investment and spurring the modernisation of industrial technology. Many economists and policymakers have adopted these axioms.
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    Intergenerational deadlock? Confronting the AIDS crisis in Tanzania

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Aids in Africa has created and widened divisions between age groups at a time when intergenerational support is more essential than ever. Normal sexual activity is highly likely to expose young people to the risk of HIV infection: they need protection just as older people need support in the face of the mounting death toll.
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    Spend, spend, spend? Is public spending a good thing for the Tanzanian economy?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Does government spending enhance economic growth? The evidence supporting a significant relationship between the two is mixed. The impact of increased spending differs from country to country depending on the economic environment and on a particular government's budget allocation to each sector.
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    Learning and not learning. Community conservation policies in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Since 1990 concepts, policies and practices of wildlife conservation and management in sub-Saharan Africa have shifted towards a community-based approach, part of a global move towards community-based conservation. This trend emphatically counters earlier policies of 'Fortress Conservation' that sought to sequester local people from wildlife.
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    Input credit for smallholder farmers: can the private sector help?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Many governments in sub-Saharan Africa set up systems in the seventies and eighties to supply inputs for crop production on credit to smallholder farmers. Unsustainable, expensive, and based on monopoly control over output marketing by the state, these have been swept away during liberalisation.
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    Getting gender onto the policy agenda

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How far has knowledge about causes of gender disparities in education been incorporated into the design or reform of government and donor policies? And how have political and bureaucratic constraints affected specific reform measures?

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