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    Maendeleo Dialogue: Democracy in Tanzania: 48 Years of Our Fight Against Poverty, Ignorance and Diseases: Have We Attained Our Goal?

    2010
    And on marking 48 years of independence in line with its Maendeleo Dialogue series, Tanzania Development Initiative Program (TADIP) in collaboration with Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) organized a one day dialogue to assess achievement attained in the fight against the country’s three declared development enemies.
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    Rising global interest in farmland: can it yield sustainable and equitable benefits?

    World Bank, 2011
    This paper analyses issues that affect the role of agriculture as a source of economic development, rural livelihoods and environmental services.
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    Hybrid mini-grids for rural electrification: lessons learned

    USA Agency for International Development, 2011
    There are currently around 1.5 billion people in the world without access to electricity. This report summarises lessons learned from hybrid mini-grid projects implemented by members of the Alliance for Rural Development (ARE) and provides insights on the key issues that must be considered when devising sustainable, replicable models of hybrid mini-grids.
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    United Nations Development Assistance Framework Jamaica 2012-2016

    United Nations Development Programme, 2011
    Jamaica is on track to ensure environmental sustainability and to eradicate extreme hunger, but it faces a number of development challenges. United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) 2012-2016 provides a coordinated strategy for the delivery of UN assistance to Jamaica to meet its development objectives.
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    Extreme Poverty and Human Rights: A Case Study of the United States of America

    Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2012
    This paper presents the problems of poverty in the U.S. from the perspective of the notion of “extreme poverty,” regarded as a violation of human rights. By choosing the United States as the case study, this paper seeks to illustrate that extreme poverty is a pervasive societal problem, irrespective of the level of income of a country.
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    Adapting to climate change in the water sector

    Overseas Development Institute, 2009
    This background note, published by the Overseas Development Institute, provides an overview of the potential risks and vulnerabilities that face the water sector due to climate change. It also summarises of some of the adaptive strategies, targeting both supply and demand of water, being employed across various sectors in the developing world and offers suggestions going forward.
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    Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN)

    The Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) is a network of 22 member country governments that promotes global change research in the region, increases developing country involvement in
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    The International Journal of Bahamian Studies

    International Journal of Bahamian Studies is a scholarly peer-reviewed research journal published by The College of The Bahamas.
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    UNDP India

    UNDP is committed to help India achieve the global Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)as well as the national objectives articulated in consecutive Five-Year Plans.
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    Gender Action Link: gender, IFIs and transparency

    Gender Action, 2011
    International Financial Institutions (IFIs) that primarily loan funds to least developed countries have also committed to fight poverty through providing resources, knowledge and capacity building to achieve sustainable development results.

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