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  The Global Fund: managing great expectations

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  The Global Fund was set up in 2002 to provide funds for the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.  How successful has it been so far at attracting, managing and distributing additional resources?
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  Trade preference erosion: expanded assessment of countries at risk of welfare losses

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2005

  This paper assesses the situation of the preference-reliant countries seen as being most at risk of experiencing negative welfare effects from preference erosion as a consequence of multilateral tariff liberalisation, with a focus on Bangladesh, Madagascar, Morocco, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.The paper finds that, while most developing regions experienced welfare gains as a consequ
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  Ending legalised violence against children: report for the East and Southern Africa regional consultation

  Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children, 2005

  This report reviews law and policy in relation to corporal punishment and deliberate humiliation of children in each state in East and Southern Africa.
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  Using empirical information in the era of HIV/AIDS to inform mitigation and rural development strategies: selected results from African country studies

  The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2005

  This study looks at the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the socioeconomic impacts in Sub-Saharan Africa on the agricultural sector.
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  Assessment of violence against children in the Eastern and Southern Africa region

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2005

  This study provides an extensive picture of violence against children in Eastern and Southern Africa, providing regional and country specific information on national legal and policy frameworks and enforcements.
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  Infrastructure is the key to poverty reduction in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  African infrastructure development lags behind other regions. The lack of rural roads, telecommunications, electrification and water services is weakening poverty reduction efforts. Poor infrastructure directly affects poverty and requires urgent attention.
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  Has financial liberalisation brought economic growth for southern Africa?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Most countries belonging to the Southern African Development Community have a history of repressive financial organisation, involving distorting financial markets by fixing interest rates below market levels and controlling the distribution of credit. Since the early 1990s these countries have gradually liberalised their financial systems.
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  Politics and the PRS approach in Southern Africa

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005

  This presentation reviews the political dimensions of the PRSP approach in the Southern Africa sub-region.
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  Fighting malaria in Africa by linking with other disease initiatives

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  The global community is committed to cutting by half the number of deaths worldwide from malaria by 2010. In Africa, progress has been slow towards achieving the objectives set by the continent’s leaders in April 2000 to help reach this goal. Programmes to reduce malaria could be far more effective if they are linked to existing initiatives to prevent other diseases.
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  Can water and sanitation services reach low-income communities? Lessons from Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  By 2025 there will be 700 million urban Africans. Sub-Saharan Africa not only has the world’s fastest rate of urban population growth, but its cities also have the highest proportion of unplanned – and often illegal – low-income settlements.

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