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  The Green Growth Platform: inspiring a green approach to development

  UONGOZI Institute / Institute of African Leadership for Sustainable Development, 2013

  In Tanzania, and in Africa generally, there is growing awareness that the economy and environment cannot be viewed and treated as two separate domains in policy and practice. Rather, both are intrinsic to human existence and will need to be managed in parallel.
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  Managing natural resources to ensure prosperity in Africa

  UONGOZI Institute / Institute of African Leadership for Sustainable Development, 2013

  The discovery and extraction of natural resources has the potential to finance rapid, sustained and broad-based development. However, the historical record of resource discoveries in developing countries is deeply worrying.
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  Thinking outside the box: a case for promoting the charcoal industry in Tanzania

  UONGOZI Institute / Institute of African Leadership for Sustainable Development, 2013

  Charcoal is Tanzania’s most important domestic energy source and this is not likely to change in the foreseeable future. Demand for charcoal is rising as Tanzania’s population grows and becomes increasingly urban.
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  Understanding Mountain Poverty in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas : Regional Report for Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2011

  Around 211 million people reside in the greater Himalayan region, but there is a lack of cohesive information on their socioeconomic status. In general, issues such as whether, how, and why mountain poverty differs from national poverty remain unaddressed. This report attempts to identify, understand, and statistically substantiate the specificity of mountain poverty.
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  Pro-Poor Value Chain Development for High ValueProducts in Mountain Regions: Indian Bay Leaf

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2011

  Production of high value products and services can help reduce poverty in mountain regions. Value chains can be used to describe the activities and benefits involved in bringing such a product from the producer to the market, and analysed to identify improvements along the chain which, if addressed, yield the highest positive outcome for small producers, traders, and processors.
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  Beekeeping training for farmers in the Himalayas – Resource manual for trainers

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2012

  This manual is designed to help provide beekeepers with the up-to-date training they need. It presents an inclusive curriculum developed through ICIMOD’s work with partner organizations in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal.
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  Inequality and economic marginalisation: How the structure of the economy impacts on opportunities on the margins

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2011

  In the face of a long-standing unemployment crisis that increasingly threatens social and economic stability, employment has at last taken centre stage in South African policy, and with this, focus is shifting to the structural constraints on employment creation within the economy. The New Growth Path, approved by Cabinet in November 2010, starts to tackle these issues.
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  An appraisal of local economic development impact assessment methodologies in the Context of the Community Work Programme (CWP)

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2013

  The Community Work Programme (CWP) aims to provide an employment ‘safety net’ that provides access to a minimum level of regular work on an on-going and predictable basis for those who require it the most unemployed and underemployed people at the local community level.
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  Predicted poverty impacts of expanding the Community Work Program me in South Africa: an analysis of income poverty and inequality

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2012

  The Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS), which guarantees low-skilled work to poor, unemployed individuals and in the process contributes to the creation of productive community assets and services.
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  Strengthening the impacts of economic development strategies on urban poverty

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008

  South Africa is continuing to urbanise, perhaps not as rapidly as some developing countries but certainly at a rate which has generated a considerable degree of policy anguish over its accompanying rising levels of urban poverty.

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