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  Determinants of educational achievement and attainment in Africa: findings from nine case studies

  Africa Bureau Information Center, USAID, 1997

  This paper presents an overview and discussion of nine studies that attempt to explain educational achievement, attainment, and participation in different African countries. Available information on school, household, child, and community characteristics are explored for this purpose.
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  World Data on Education [country profiles]

  International Bureau of Education, UNESCO, 1998

  Country level educational sector profiles (144 in June 2000). Overview describing structure of sector and nationals policies Includes statistcal indicators. Available on WWW and on (free) CDROM.
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  Aid and Reform in Africa

  Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1999

  Since the early 1980s, virtually every African country has received large amounts of aid aimed at stimulating policy reform. The results have varied enormously. Ghana and Uganda were successful reformers that grew rapidly and reduced poverty. In other countries policies changed little or even got worse.
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  Rural water tenure in East Africa: a comparative study of legal regimes and community responses to changing tenure patterns in Tanzania and Kenya

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000

  This paper looks at the water policy of Tanzania, and makes comparisons with the situation in Kenya. It focuses especially on recent attempts to move towards a participatory, demand-management approach to rural water supply.
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  Aid and reform in Africa: lessons from ten case studies

  World Bank, 2001

  This article explores comparatively, the effect and effectiveness of aid in different African countries (10 case studies).More specifically the article investigates the following questions:are there common characteristics of successful and failed reformers that enable us to understand better the political economy of reform?do donors tailor their assistance to different types of coun
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  Focusing on women works: research on improving micronutrient status through food-based interventions

  International Center for Research on Women, USA, 1999

  Synthesis of five studies, undertaken in Ethiopia, Kenya, Peru, Tanzania, and Thailand, included intervention trails and measurement of impacts.The results suggest that it is possible to increase the effectiveness of micronutrient interventions (including Vitamin A, iron, iodine) by increasing women’s active participation in problem solving and by increasing their access to such key resources
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  Improving household food security: institutions, gender, and integrated approaches

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000

  Food security is a multi-dimensional development issue that needs cross-sectoral integrated approaches.
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  Global environmental problems and local poverty

  Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2001

  Reporting on case studies in Kenya and Tanzania, this paper illustrates the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report that claims that the world’s poorest populations will be the hardest hit by climate changes. The IPCC states that there is, therefore, a shift in focus from climate impacts as a purely natural scientific phenomenon to climate impacts as a development issue.
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  Methodologies for estimating informal crossborder trade in Eastern and Southern Africa : Kenya - Uganda border, Tanzania and its neighbors, Malawi and its neighbors, Mozambique and its neighbors

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996

  This report should serve as a highly useful guide for needs assessment/planning, data set collection, further research, project/program elaboration, and policy formulation on the subject of unofficial crossborder trade.Ackello-Ogutu’s research techniques reflect his concern for variations that often exist among regions and countries, but are frequently ignored by researchers in research methodo
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  Comparative cost of production analysis in East Africa : implications for competitiveness and comparative advantage

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996

  Report is an analytical attempt to highlight areas of comparative advantage and disadvantage in various East African countries and suggest ways in which these countries could improve regional and individual competitiveness in production and trade via optimal resource allocation.

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