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    Supporting the poor: sustainable safety nets for the new millennium

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Policymakers have moved away from offering universal benefits to developing ways of protecting the poor against income fluctuations and livelihood shocks. What have we learned about the design, targeting and impact of social protection programmes? Should resource transfers be in cash or in- kind? Can we be sure assistance is sustainable?
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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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    Working at home: developmentally unsound practice?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Home-based enterprises (HBEs) are unpopular with many policymakers and development theorists. Are their objections justified? Does the presence of HBEs hinder upgrading of residential environments? Are those who work at home exploited victims doing outwork for large manufacturers?
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    No hiding place for information-hoarders: tackling the accountability deficit

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Can citizens help shape policies and hold politicians and civil servants to account? How can opportunities for citizen participation be institutionalised? Which public sector responsiveness initiatives undertaken in recent years are replicable? How should donors respond to recalcitrant states refusing to reform accountability relationships with service users?
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    Action against ageism: harnessing the potential of older people for development

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What are the consequences of discrimination against the two-thirds of the world’s over- 60s who live in developing countries? How does ageism and stereotyping influence attitudes and allocation of resources at household, community, national and international level? What can be done to ensure that older people benefit from the full range of internationally accepted human rights?
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    Counting the cost of HIV in Southern Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Southern Africa is the region with the highest rates of HIV infection in the world. An estimated 9.4 million of the total population of 97 million were HIV-positive in 1999. What impact will the HIV/AIDS epidemic have on the provision of health services in the region? Is there any scope for improving access to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in low-income countries?
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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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    Those who can’t, teach maths? Motivating maths teachers

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Why is the teaching of mathematics in black schools in South Africa so poor? What motivates would-be pedagogues to teach maths? Are they satisfied with the pre-service preparation they receive? Are teachers of teachers wedded to pedagogically naïve methodologies? How can training be improved?
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    Decentralisation and promotion of educational equity: incompatible bedfellows?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Devolving educational control and decision- making and getting parents and communities involved in schooling is promoted as a good thing. But does it deliver benefits? Is it feasible for states to simultaneously play a regulatory role in pursuit of national norms and educational equality while permitting or encouraging community control?
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    Violence against women: what do we want to teach our teachers?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    South Africa has a history of very high levels of violence which dates back to the apartheid era, if not further. A women is raped every 35 seconds, estimates the South African Police Service.

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