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    Aid does raise economic growth in Africa – indirectly

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Despite receiving large amounts of aid, sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has a poor economic growth record. This has led some observers to conclude that aid to Africa has been ineffective. But this is not the case. Aid has contributed to growth in Africa, mainly by financing investment, which in turn contributes to growth.
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    Tracking resource and policy impact: incorporating millennium development goals and indicators and poverty reduction strategy paper monitoring across sectors

    Statistics Norway, 2004
    The main aim of this report is to show how a statistical system for tracking resource and policy impact could be designed and implemented.
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    Fast-tracking East African integration: assessing the feasibility of a political federation by 2010

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2005
    The long history of collaboration between the three East African states of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, has been turbulent and has left both a positive and negative legacy. This legacy has a bearing on the contemporary dynamics of collaboration in several respects.
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    Beyond the mainstream: education for nomadic and pastoralist girls and boys

    Oxfam, 2005
    This paper illustrates the challenges involved in providing good-quality gender-equitable education for children of nomadic and pastoralist households who are beyond the reach of mainstream, formal education.Some of the key issues highlighted in the paper include the limited, and failed, provision of static schooling, or projects which have focused on getting nomadic boys and girls to adapt to
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    Foreign investment and economic development: evidence from private firms in East Africa

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2005
    This briefing paper takes the view that foreign direct investment (FDI) can play an important role in developing countries. At the macroeconomic level, it brings new capital for investment, contributing to the balance of payments, and potentially adding to future economic growth.
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    Quality of life and quality of food

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Sweet potatoes are an important food crop in many parts of Africa. However, they perish easily and problems with in-ground storage methods can mean sweet potatoes are only available in certain seasons, often with large changes in prices. Economic returns and food security could be improved through improving farmers’ knowledge of crop storage and handling methods.
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    Sugar industries in least developed countries: profiting from ‘Everything but Arms’

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Guaranteed high prices are increasing sugar production in many of the world’s least developed countries. The possibility of duty and quota free access to European markets in 2009 is attracting foreign investment. Proactive governments are now needed to maximise the opportunities that the ‘Everything but Arms’ (EBA) initiative brings.
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    Can leprosy be eliminated by a single global campaign?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    In 1991 the World Health Assembly set a target to eliminate leprosy by the year 2000. The disease, which still caries a stigma, damages the skin and nerve endings and leads to ulcers and disability. A major World Health Organisation campaign has provided antibiotics to treat the disease in a number of countries. However a number of new cases have appeared in previously low priority countries.
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    Customary land delivery practices in African urban areas

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Urban poor people in sub-Saharan Africa, often excluded from formal systems of land management, increasingly obtain shelter through other means. Informal systems to deliver land in cities borrow features from rural customs.
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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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