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  Local law: tackling the environment at city level

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  How can urban environmental problems best be tackled? A study looks at the emergence of a new kind of city-wide initiative to address environmental issues, known as Local Agenda 21 (LA21). It assesses its significance and suggests ways in which it can be made more successful.
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  Risk sharing in labour markets

  Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2003

  This paper challenges the traditional view that rent sharing explains the correlation in cross-sections between wages and profitability. In contrast, this paper argues that risk sharing between workers and employers explains much of this relationship.
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  Globalisation and the developing countries: emerging strategies for rural development and poverty alleviation

  International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2002

  This on-line book reviews the impact of globalisation on a range of issues, including the effects of changing global rules and regulations on the economies of developing countries in general, and their agricultural sectors in particular. The book divides into four main sections, and includes chapters by various authors.Part I: globalisation from the perspective of the South.
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  The Flynn effect in rural Kenya

  Global Livestock CRSP, 2002

  Multiple studies have documented significant IQ gains over time, labelled the “Flynn Effect”. This study documents the Flynn Effect in a rural area of a developing country. Data for this project were collected as part of two large studies in Embu, Kenya in 1984 and 1998.Results strongly support a Flynn Effect over this 14-year period. Previously hypothesised explanations (e.g.
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  Changes in dietary quality for school children in Kenyan villages

  Global Livestock CRSP, 2002

  This paper compares the results of two nutrition studies carried out during the 1980s amongst children in Kenya. The aim is to compare the nutrient intakes and energy levels. Nutrient intakes of school children in the Embu District were measured cross-sectionally in 1984-85 as part of the Nutrition CRSP, and again in 1998 as part of the Child Nutrition Project.
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  The impact of the Global Gag Rule in Kenya

  Access denied: impacts of the global gag rule, 2003

  This paper assesses the impact of the Global Gag Rule on Ethiopia. The Global Gag Rule prohibits US assistance to foreign NGOs that use funding from any other source to fund abortions in cases other than exceptional.The paper demonstrates that the Global Gag Rule has eroded long-established family planning services in Kenya.
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  The impact of HIV/AIDS on land: case studies from Kenya, Lesotho and South Africa

  Oxfam, 2002

  The paper presents case studies from Kenya, Lesotho and South Africa in order to examine the impact of HIV/AIDS upon land, and present preliminary policy recommendations.
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  The impact of relief aid on community-based animal health programmes: the Kenyan experience

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2003

  This paper addresses the issue of profitability of Community-Based Animal Health (CBAH) programs and the impact of emergency relief aid on these programs.The paper demonstrates that in cases where drugs are distributed at highly subsidised rates, the income of Community-based Animal Health Workers (CAHWs) was substantially negatively affected since their commissions were based on subsidised dru
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  Effectiveness and financial viability of privatised animal health delivery system

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2003

  This paper reports on a project by FARM Africa which attempted to introduce a dairy goat and animal health care project in Meru district, Kenya, in 1996. The purpose of the project is to increase the productivity of local goats through better management, access to sustainable healthcare and genetic improvement systems, and of local cattle from better access to sustainable healthcare systems.
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  National Agricultural Research Systems experiences in the use of participatory approaches to animal health research in Kenya

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2003

  This paper highlights experiences arising from the use of participatory approaches (PAs) in animal health research by some National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) in Kenya.

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