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  Competition policy for Namibia: promoting fair competition and economic development

  Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit, 2003

  Competition policy is increasingly recognized as important for improving market performance and promoting economic growth, and is one of the new issues of focus of the World Trade Organization. Reflecting these trends, Namibia is developing a national competition policy.
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  To liberalise or not to liberalise? a review of the South African government’s trade policy

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  This paper argues that trade liberalisation is appropriate in South Africa subject to the need to maintain social stability. The author recommends that the state must play an active role, in collaboration with business and key civil society institutions, in promoting South Africa’s integration into the global economy.
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  Decentralisations in practice in Southern Africa

  Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003

  Different forms of decentralisation are occurring in parallel, and often in ways that cause confusion, ambiguity, high transaction costs and conflict, in southern Africa.These case studies in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe show how: political authorities with downward accountability to electorates co-exist and sometimes conflict with decentralised service delivery (through line m
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  Rights talk and rights practice: challenges for Southern Africa

  Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003

  This research in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe looks at the practice of rights claiming on the ground, in the context of 'legal pluralism' and complex, politicised institutional settings. In the southern African context rights are formulated and claimed in a very unlevel playing field and are highly contested.
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  Organized labour in the 21st century

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This report presents a representative sample of the comparative research undertaken by the International Institute for Labour Studies on comparative research on “Trade union responses to globalization”. It involves 15 countries namely, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Ghana, India, Israel, Japan, Republic of Korea, Lithuania, Niger, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia and USA.
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  Has improved availability of health expenditure data contributed to evidence-based policy making? Country experiences with national health accounts

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 2003

  National Health Accounts (NHA) is a tool designed to inform the health policy process. It aims to do so by providing policymakers with valuable information on the distribution of health funds within the system.
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  Assessing the South African brain drain: a statistical comparison

  Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2000

  What are the true dimensions of migration and the brain drain in South Africa? The accuracy of the official statistics on the extent of emigration from South Africa, particularly skilled people, has been increasingly questioned by journalists and academics.
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  Gender Issues in ICT Policy in Developing Countries: An Overview

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2002

  Without explicit attention to integrating a gender perspective into Information and Communication Technology (ICT) policies, the needs of women and girls risk being overlooked.
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  Telecenters and the gender dimension: an examination of how engendered telecenters are diffused in Africa

  Georgetown University, 2003

  Telecenters have become an important component to development programs that seek to narrow the digital and knowledge divides that exist throughout the world. Despite the proliferation of telecenters throughout Africa, women continue to be cut off from essential info-communication resources that could improve their lives.
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  Do South African rural origin medical students return to rural practice?

  EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2003

  How can equity be achieved in the distribution of health workers between urban and rural areas? Are medical students of rural origin really more likely to practice in a rural area after graduation?

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