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  Powering rural development: energy management in African schools and hospitals

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Across the developing world, rural schools, hospitals and other public institutions face severe energy problems. How can they be helped to develop sustainable solutions which blend demand-side management, energy efficiency and appropriate new technology? How could rural Energy Service Advisers (ESAs) work with local institutions and the business community to achieve this?
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  Levelling the international ICT playing field

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Developing countries have next to no say in the evolution of information and communication technologies (ICTs). At its Genoa Summit in 2001, the G8’s Digital Opportunities Task (DOT) Force called for greater southern involvement in ICT decision- making. What are the prospects for bridging the digital divide? What principles should govern ICT relations between north and south?
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  Virgins and Casanova: is Africa ready for e-government?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Can information technology promote new public management (NPM) in Africa? Can e-government projects improve public sector effectiveness and bureaucratic efficiency? How should e- readiness for e-government be measured? How can we close the gaps between project design and African public sector reality that have caused most e-government projects to fail?
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  Does investing in education reduce poverty? Evidence from Ghana, Uganda and South Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Three broad facts about education have emerged from recent research. Firstly, almost universally education is found to lift people out of poverty. Secondly, when a comparison is made between investing in education and other forms of investment, the returns from investing in education are on average lower.
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  Report of the scientific meeting on the empirical evidence for the demographic and socio-economic impact of AIDS

  Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2003

  ‘A lot of projections, but little data’, is a common complaint amongst HIV/AIDS researchers and policy makers in Africa.
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  TRIPS, pharmaceutical patents, and access to essential medicines: a long way from Seattle to Doha

  Médecins Sans Frontières, 2003

  Public health advocates welcomed the Doha Declaration as an important achievement because it gave primacy to public health over private intellectual property, and clarified World Trade Organization (WTO) Members' rights to use trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPS) safeguards.
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  Chronic poverty and older people in South Africa

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003

  This report includes a comprehensive review of existing research, both published and unpublished on the old in South Africa.
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  Non-contributory pensions and poverty prevention: a comparative study of Brazil and South Africa

  HelpAge International, 2003

  Pensions play a key role in old age support systems, but research and debate on pension policy has so far focused on contributory pension programmes.
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  The political economy of chronic poverty

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003

  This paper argues that far from globalisation providing widespread opportunities for the poor in the short to medium term, the level of global poverty is likely to increase in absolute terms, in terms of incidence and depth.
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  Transboundary conservation: the politics of ecological integrity in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park

  Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003

  Recent years have witnessed the emergence of an ostensibly surprising coalition of interests around the notion of Transboundary Natural Resource Management (TBNRM) in Southern Africa.

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