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    Meeting greenhouse gas targets and supporting development: a win-win situation?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    In 1997, as part of the Kyoto Protocol, industrialised countries agreed to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. One method for achieving their targets is to invest in projects that reduce GHG emissions in other countries.
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    Trade and the consolidation of regional economic relations in the Great Lakes Region of Central and Eastern Africa: critical reflections

    Institute of Development Studies, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 2002
    This paper asks whether the Great Lakes Region (GLR) of Central and Eastern Africa, consisting of Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), can be seen as constituting a single political region, and assesses the prospects for economic integration in the region.
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    Can urban housing regulations be pro-poor?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Bureaucracy is a significant barrier to providing affordable shelter. Slums are often the result of inappropriate regulatory frameworks. High standards, restrictive regulations and complex procedures force countless people into informal settlements. What can be done to ensure that formal planning systems become more transparent and start to work on behalf of the poor?
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    Pastoralism on the margin

    Minority Rights Group International, 2004
    This report focuses on the sustainability of pastoralism in the lowlands of the Great Rift of East Africa and the Horn, arguing that pastoralism as a mode of production and a way of life has entered a phase of decline, often accompanied by conflict, drought, famine and flooding.The report details the historic evolution and chief characteristics of pastoralism, discussing the eras of colonialism
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    Comparison of house spraying and insecticide-treated nets for malaria control

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2000
    This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, compares the efficacy of residual house spraying against insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) for malaria control using data from Africa, Asia and Melanesia. Comparisons of recent initiatives showed that ITNs were at least as effective as house spraying.
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    Shared aquatic ecosystems of East Africa: status and trends

    African Centre for Technology Studies, 2002
    The East African Community (EAC) initiated a process to prepare common guidelines for the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of shared aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems of East Africa.
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    Survival and success among African manufacturing firms

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2004
    This paper examines why African economies have remained largely unsuccessful despite competition-enhancing economic reforms. In this paper, the authors consider the roles of learning, competition and market imperfections in determining three aspects of firm performance, namely firm exit, firm growth and productivity growth.
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    African Economic Outlook 2003/2004

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004
    The third edition of the African Economic Outlook assesses recent economic changes and likely evolutions and challenges on the continent.
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    Integrated management of childhood illness by outpatient health workers: technical basis and overview

    World Health Organization, 1997
    This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, describes the technical basis for the guidelines for the integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI), which are presented in the WHO/UNICEF training course on IMCI for outpatient health workers at first-level health facilities in developing countries.
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    Exporting from manufacturing firms in Sub-Saharan Africa: Micro evidence for macro outcomes

    Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2004
    This paper draws on micro evidence of manufacturing firms in five African countries - Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania, South Africa and Nigeria - to investigate the causes of poor exporting performance. In light of research on the relationship between efficiency and exporting, this paper suggests:that firm size is a good indicator of the decision to export.

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