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  Be responsible! The international recruitment of health professionals

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Since the 1960s, the ‘brain drain’, or the mass migration of health professionals from low income to developed countries, has taken place with little action to monitor or control the flows from many of the countries involved. Improved policies cannot be effectively implemented without better knowledge of migration flows. Policies must be put in place at national and international levels.
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  Trade unions in Africa

  National Labour and Economic Development Institute, South Africa, 2004

  This booklet examines the legal, economic, and political environment in which trade unions operate in Africa and attempts to identify the key challenges facing them. It describes country case studies from Zambia, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Namibia, and South Africa.
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  Socioeconomic inequalities in child mortality: comparisons across nine developing countries

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2000

  This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, generates and analyses survey data on inequalities in child mortality in Brazil, Côte D’Ivoire, Ghana, Nepal, Nicaragua, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Africa and Viet Nam.
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  African Economic Outlook 2003/2004

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004

  The third edition of the African Economic Outlook assesses recent economic changes and likely evolutions and challenges on the continent.
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  Child justice in Africa: a guide to good practice

  Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2004

  [File size 97910Kb] This manual presents innovative examples of applied local practices of child justice in Africa. The topics mainly relate to programme delivery, to the expansion of services to children and to integrating human rights practice in criminal justice processes. The manual is aimed at policy makers and non-governmental organizations.
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  Global child labour data review: a gender perspective (vol. 3)

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2004

  This report provides an analysis of child labour disaggregated by sex. It reviews existing child labour data, specifically from a gender perspective, and provides a detailed review of and comparison between six countries, Ecuador, Ghana, the Philippines, Dominican Republic, South Africa and Turkey to look at general trends in child labour and sex differentials.
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  Exporting from manufacturing firms in Sub-Saharan Africa: Micro evidence for macro outcomes

  Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2004

  This paper draws on micro evidence of manufacturing firms in five African countries - Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania, South Africa and Nigeria - to investigate the causes of poor exporting performance. In light of research on the relationship between efficiency and exporting, this paper suggests:that firm size is a good indicator of the decision to export.
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  Availability, access and usability of land for urban agriculture

  RUAF Urban Agriculture Magazine, 2003

  The report by the Urban Agriculture Magazine draws on numerous case studies from around the world in discussing issues of availability, access and usability of land for urban agriculture.Rapid urbanisation has lead to an increasing demand for urban agricultural land.
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  Information technologies and education for the poor in Africa (ITEPA): recommendations for a pro-poor ICT4D non-formal education policy

  Imfundo, 2004

  Examines the ways in which ICTs can improve the skills of Africa’s young people and adults who do not have basic literacy skills and/or have not completed primary or secondary school.The report looks at: moving towards pro-poor ICT-based sustainable development modelswhy local content is central to African ICT4Dhow informational needs are critical both for individual development
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  Private sector participation in water supply: too fast, too soon?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Is water privatisation being over-promoted? Is private sector participation (PSP) in its current forms likely to promote the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals to provide the poor with reliable, affordable and sustainable, safe drinking water? How do members of poor communities affected by the process judge PSP? 

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