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  Pro-poor growth in the 1990s: lessons and insights from 14 countries

  World Bank, 2005

  This paper is based on a study designed to better understand the options for policymakers to increase the impact of growth on poverty reduction and how they vary depending on policies and country conditions.
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  Putting water and sanitation at the heart of poverty reduction

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) are a requirement for debt relief and concessional lending from the World Bank. They are central to the development strategies of countries across sub-Saharan Africa and as such are very important for making the millennium development goals – including access to safe drinking water – a reality.
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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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  Education in Africa: what makes a good SWAP?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Governments and funding agencies are increasingly recognising the need for more secondary and post-basic education as a result of the expansion of primary education. Developing a comprehensive nationally-owned sector-wide strategy would be a good start. Sector wide approaches (SWAPs) to education are being promoted in response to achieving Education for All by 2015.
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  Increasing women’s role in food security in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Women play a key role in securing food throughout Africa, yet local customs and legal institutions often discriminate against women, denying them access to land, resources, education and public services. Healthcare is also an issue, particularly HIV/AIDS. Women have to care for themselves and for sick relatives, leaving less time to find or produce food.
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  Grim future for girls - primary school attendance in Sub-Saharan Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  In the year 2000 the probability of an African child attending primary school was no higher than it had been in 1980. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the lowest primary enrolments of any major region in the developing world and the number of African children out of school is increasing at a faster rate than anywhere else.
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  Mobiles and markets – providers of telephones for Africa’s rural poor?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Bridging the ‘digital divide’ – a gap between those who can access and use information technology and those who cannot – is seen as an essential part of development. Despite the wide publicity about promoting information and communication technologies (ICTs), most rural Africans still lack telephone services.
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  Impact of public-private partnerships addressing access to pharmaceuticals in selected low and middle income countries: a synthesis report from studies in Botswana, Sri Lanka, Uganda and Zambia

  Initiative on Public-Private Partnerships for Health, 2004

  This research report outlines how public-private partnerships (PPPs) intended to provide HIV drugs in three African countries are having limited impact because of the way in which these drugs are priced and patented.The report examines evidence on the effectiveness of two different types of PPPs: those set up to provide treatments for tropical diseases (in Sri Lanka, Uganda and Zambia), and tho
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  Trade and the consolidation of regional economic relations in the Great Lakes Region of Central and Eastern Africa: critical reflections

  Institute of Development Studies, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 2002

  This paper asks whether the Great Lakes Region (GLR) of Central and Eastern Africa, consisting of Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), can be seen as constituting a single political region, and assesses the prospects for economic integration in the region.
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  Teacher and health care provider absence: a multi-country study

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper looks at the incidence and causes of absenteeism in public health workers and teachers in eight countries. Research was based on unannounced visits to a random sample of health care facilities and schools.

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