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    Postnatal depression and child development in South Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Is the rate of postnatal depression the same in the developing world as in Western cultures? Does it have a similar adverse impact on the mother-child relationship? Researchers from the UK University of Reading and the University of Cape Town, South Africa, examined these questions in Khayelitsha, South Africa.
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    Containing conflict: a donor perspective

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What can donors do to strengthen the capacity of a society to manage tensions and disputes without resorting to violence? What governance interventions might improve a state’s capacity to contain conflict? How can we better understand the role corruption and natural resource spoiling plays in managing and generating conflict?
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    Learning by doing? Assessing multi-stakeholder approaches

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) is an alliance of companies, non-governmental and trade union organisations committed to working together to identify and promote good practice in the implementation of corporate codes of labour practice.
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    Learning to compete: African development responses to globalisation

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    At the beginning of the 21st century much of Africa still faces massive challenges to successful economic and social development. But how should African countries respond to the imperatives of globalisation and pro-poor growth?
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    Getting better – improving public health services in South Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Five years after the end of apartheid, South Africa’s public health service has made impressive gains. Fragmented, racially- divided urban hospital-based services have been transformed into an integrated comprehensive national health system. But have there been real improvements in the delivery of healthcare?
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    Dream models? Health services during social change

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Which provides the best health service, the ‘American’ model or the ‘European’ model? According to a report by the UK Institute of Development Studies, neither example is useful for countries undergoing rapid social change. For countries like China and South Africa, these dominant models are too static and fail to take into account constantly changing social and political realities.
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    Unhappy alliance – does integrated reproductive healthcare work?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What are the best strategies to tackle the spread of HIV and improve women’s reproductive health? Since 1994, the international approach has been to integrate sexually transmitted infection (STI) and HIV services with primary healthcare and family planning programmes. But how successful has this been?
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    From prejudice to policy reform: the rights of hunter-gatherers

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Communities of present-day or former hunter- gatherers live in scattered communities across the world, although their precise numbers and status are uncertain. Their often marginalized status and ethnolinguistic diversity has made it hard to articulate their case for land rights outside Australia and North America.
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    Big business, small hands: responsible approaches to child labour

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    International outcry has forced big business to adopt the elimination of child labour as a social responsibility. But can corporate codes of conduct move beyond ‘quick fix’ solutions and ensure fair ethical treatment of child workers?
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    Catalyst for local democracy? Land reform in Eastern and Southern Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    From Eritrea to South Africa land tenure laws are in a state of flux. In every nation in eastern and southern Africa, apart from those wracked by conflict, tenure reform is either under discussion or coming on stream. What is driving this change? What are the consequences for landholders, for democratization and the nature of state power? Who are the potential winners and losers?

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