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  Zambia: Non-governmental health care provision

  Harvard School of Public Health, 1995

  Zambia has experienced major economic difficulties for almost two decades, resulting in lowered incomes and a dilapidated social infrastructure. Despite initial improvement in health status immediately after independence, progress has been limited and slow, and many indicators appear to have worsened in recent years.
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  Study on private sector development in Malawi

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2002

  Review of the private sector in Malawi and the priorities for donor intervention.
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  Conservation farming in Zambia

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  Examines the effectiveness of the ‘conservation farming (CF) system’, a package of agronomic practices for smallholders introduced to Zambia in 1996 and advocated by a range of stakeholders from donors, government and private sector.The system involves:dry-season land preparation using minimum tillage methods retention of crop residue from the prior harvest (no burning)planting
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  Pension reform in Kazakhstan: cost-benefit analysis

  Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research,, Kazakhstan, 2002

  In 1998, a bankruptcy of state-run pension system in Kazakhstan forced the government to start pension reform: the transformation from joint into savings pension funds system.
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  Water privatisation and people’s struggle to protect common water rights in Sri Lanka

  South Asia Alliance for Poverty Alleviation, 2003

  This issue of the SAAPE newsletter covers water privatisation in South Asia.
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  Towards good water governance

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Have water sector professionals thought enough about governance?  Supporters of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) have set out a vision of equitable, affordable and sustainable water services – but what type of governance is needed to make it a reality? How can decentralisation and gender mainstreaming be incorporated into water governance?
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  WHO Report 2003: global tuberculosis control: surveillance, planning, financing

  National Trade Databank, USA, 2003

  This is the 7th WHO annual report on global TB control. It includes data on case notifications and treatment outcomes from all national control programmes that have reported to WHO, together with an analysis of plans, finances, and constraints on DOTS expansion for 22 high-burden countries (HBCs).
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  Information and communication technology and development [in the Arab world]

  World Summit on the Information Society, 2003

  This paper focuses on the current status and recent trends of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), and accordingly, prospects for development in the Arab world arguing that present shortcomings and future challenges imposed on Arab countries must be translated into opportunities for future public-private sector collaboration, with a major role for NGOs.Initially the report present
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  World Development Report 2004: making services work for poor people

  World Development Report, World Bank, 2003

  This issue of the WDR focuses on policies for improving the access of poor people to affordable, better quality services in health, education, water, sanitation, and electricity.The report focuses on the three ways in which services can be improved:By increasing poor clients’ choice and participation in service delivery, so they can monitor and discipline providers: School vouche
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  Who can farmers turn to for sound advice?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Governments that have privatised their extension and advisory services still try to influence decisions that farmers take relating to agriculture, environmental issues, food safety and rural development.

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