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    Expanding and strengthening community action: a study of ways to scale up community mobilization interventions to mitigate the effect of HIV/AIDS on children and families

    Local Livestock for Empowerment of Rural People, League for Pastoral People, 2001
    The purpose of this study is to make a series of recommendations on how to scale up effective, sustainable community mobilization and capacity-building interventions to mitigate the effects of AIDS on children and families in the countries most seriously affected by the pandemic.
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    Share contracts in the oil palm and citrus belts of Ghana

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001
    The report examines the use of share contracts to mediate land, capital and labour interests. Two primary forms of contract exist in Ghana known as abunu (half share) and abusa (third share). Determining factors in the choice of contract are identified as land scarcity, production costs (labour and raw materials) and location.
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    Educating nomadic herders out of poverty?: response to Saverio Krätli's World Bank paper

    Save the Children Fund, 2001
    This article poses several questions, which the author contends underpin discussions concerning pastoralism and education:who should decide what kind of lives people should lead?what is the prerequisite for people to be able to have a choice in deciding their own lives?could education have anything to do with this?This report is critical of Kratli's report for:f
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    AIDS epidemic update 2001

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2001
    Paper provides overviews of statistics of HIV/AIDS infections and looks at methods for prevention of epidemic. It suggests there exists a particular opportunity for action in countries where either the rate of HIV is low or which have large populations.It loks at figures by region.
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    The status and trends of HIV/AIDS/STI epidemics in Asia and the Pacific

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2001
    Report looks at current statistics of AIDS/HIV/STI in Asia and the Pacific and discusses the trends behind population groups and country regions where infections are prevalent.It suggests that focused interventions can keep infection rates low in specific groups and reduce the risk of extensive HIV spread in the population at large.
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    On obnoxious markets

    Department of Economics [Cornell University], 2001
    Certain markets evoke popular discomfort, distrust and even outrage. Trade in arms, drugs, toxic waste, child labor and body parts, for example, elicits these reactions to different degrees.
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    AIDS: the undeclared war

    Stakeholder Forum, 2001
    Identifying the key issues relating to the war on HIV / AIDS as access to medication, cultural factors, lack of knowledge and resource short-fall this paper discusses broad areas of change needed to break current trends.The author goes on to suggest some more detailed policy responses for governments, ngos, the private sector and international institutions placing HIV /AIDS in the context of th
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    An essay on child labor in Sub-Saharan Africa: a bargaining approach

    Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2000
    This article discusses child labour in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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    Family-controlled child labor in Sub-Saharan Africa: a survey of research

    Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2000
    The paper presents and analyzes recent research into child labor problems in Africa, mainly made by economists and social anthropologists.
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    Combating trafficking in children for labour exploitation in West and Central Africa

    International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2001
    In October 1999, ILO/IPEC launched a sub-regional project entitled "Combating trafficking in children for labour exploitation in West and Central Africa", with the financial support of the Department of Labour, U.S.A.

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