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    Equity, growth or both? Juggling lessons from Zimbabwe for post-apartheid South Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Two issues dominate debate about South Africa's post-apartheid economic policy. They are growth and the just redistribution of income and wealth. Can both be achieved? Should priority be set on one or the other? If so, how?
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    Flying software: is the Information Society heading South?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    In 1998, developing countries will export around US$3bn-worth of computer software to Western markets, making use of telecommunication networks - a conspicuous signal that Information Society benefits can be global. However, such 'headline images' are deceptive. Software production reflects output, location and skill skews that provide limited benefits for developing countries.
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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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    Pro-poor regulation of water and sanitation: the role of tri-sector partnerships

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How can governments, private sector operators and civil society organisations develop regulatory regimes that are able to ensure the sustainable delivery of water and sanitation services for the poor? How do regulatory regimes affect tri-sector partnerships? What role can partnerships play in making regulation more pro-poor?
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    Globalisation and manufacturing employment: contrasting impacts in Asia and Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    A crucial way in which increased integration with the global economy can potentially reduce poverty is through the creation of new jobs in export industries. However, greater openness also brings increased competition from imports for previously protected industries. This can lead to job losses in certain sectors, with workers falling into poverty as a result of retrenchment.
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    Black townships in Soweto: a marginalised under-class ready to ignite?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Have black residents in South African townships benefited from deracialisation processes accompanying the end of apartheid? How does urban policy in Johannesburg intersect with the legacies of apartheid planning and social relations? What do township residents expect from municipal authorities?
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    Labour flexibility in African horticulture

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The production of fresh fruit and vegetables for European markets has become big business in Africa. In Kenya and South Africa, horticultural exports comprise 20-30 per cent of the total agricultural export trade, creating substantial opportunities for earning wages and self-employment.
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    Double standards – are uninsured patients treated differently by South Africa’s private GPs?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Many South African patients seek care for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) through the private sector. Many of the patients seeking STI care are uninsured. How does this affect the quality and equity of services?
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    An odd couple – can governments and CBOs work together on sanitation projects?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The public sector used to be responsible for providing sanitation. However, services are not keeping pace with demand. New policies often involve partnerships between government and civil society. Research from the UK South Bank University studies each partner’s rights and responsibilities, using examples from Cape Town, South Africa.
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    Making technology work: how e-commerce can help South Africa’s small furniture producers

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The development of effective business-to- business e-commerce strategies is of critical importance for South Africa’s small wooden furniture producers (SWFPs), which dominate furniture sector. How will e-commerce affect the country’s SWFPs? What steps are needed to enable SWFPs to reap the potential benefits of e-commerce?

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