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  Towards a ten year review: synthesis report on implementation of South African government programmes

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  This review sets out to assess the extent to which the new democratic dispensation since 1994 has redirected the purpose and content of government policy and seeks to describe the impact of these changes on South African society.
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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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  Water and sanitation goals: is progress in the pipeline?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  In the 1980s, the world set the goal of water and sanitation for all by the end of the decade. By contrast, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are only to halve the proportions without affordable access to safe water and adequate sanitation by 2015.
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  Foreign direct investment: bringing jobs and new skills to southern Africa?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Is foreign direct investment (FDI) set to contribute to economic growth and poverty alleviation in the states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC)? Are investor fears of instability and the slow progress in creating a free trade environment restricting potential FDI flows? Can FDI be attracted to all the SADC states, and not only to the economic magnet of South Africa?
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  Formula for success? Needs-based resource allocation in healthcare

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  A country's policy on healthcare financing can help or hinder access to services by poor people. How can different approaches to resource allocation enable poor people to access essential health services? A report from the UK Department for International Development's Health Systems Resource Centre presents lessons from Cambodia, South Africa and Uganda.
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  Wine and worker welfare: private sector self-regulation under scrutiny in South Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Are ethical trade proponents barking up the wrong tree? Does emphasis on ethical sourcing allow retailers to avoid addressing the sources of inequitable power relations in North-South trade? Are designers of such private sector codes of conduct as the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) ready to engage in dialogue with stakeholders to sustainably improve rural livelihoods?
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  Helping municipalities work with the private sector: a salutary experience from South Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Affermage contracts allow a private operator to deliver services with a greater degree of freedom than is possible with a management contract. What regulatory and institutional framework is required for this complex form of public private partnership (PPP) to fulfil its promise?
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  Income distribution for development - more or less equal?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Despite the developmental progress of recent decades, developed and developing countries alike are experiencing widening income inequality. But how does income distribution affect economic growth? And to what extent does economic growth impact on income distribution?
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  In two minds - should the private sector provide long-term psychiatric care?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  What is the best way to care for people with chronic mental disorders? Do public or private institutions provide the most cost- effective services? Researchers at the University of Witwatersrand undertook a cost- quality analysis of six South African psychiatric institutions.
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  Tourism, local livelihoods, and the private sector in South Africa: case studies on the growing role of the private sector in Natural Resources Management

  Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003

  Looks at how changing institutional arrangements and policies affect poor people's livelihoods and access to natural resources.It addresses tourism in South Africa, and the growing role of the private sector in natural resource management.

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