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    Policy and Institutional Framework Review of the fisheries sector in Malawi

    Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2008
    This paper presents issues for consideration in the development of a proposal for possible funding to address the policy and institutional framework for the fisheries sector in Malawi. It is based on consultations with officials from the Department of Fisheries (DoF), donor agencies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), district level officials and fishing communities in Mangochi district.
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    The social protection policy in Malawi: processes, politics and challenges

    Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2007
    For a period of nearly 20 years, Malawi’s economy has been characteristically unstable. Since 1981, the country’s economy has experienced boom and bust style growth patterns underpinned by rising levels of inflation, declining agricultural activity, rising interest rates, and spirals in both domestic and external debt.
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    Finance matters: id21 insights, issue 40

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    An efficient and stable financial system is important for economic growth and poverty reduction. The financial crises that have afflicted many countries in recent times have been a costly and painful reminder of the disastrous consequences for development of weak financial markets.   Articles included:
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    Tapping the market: id21 insights, issue 37

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001
    Can private enterprise supply water to the poor?  Over 170 million people have no access to clean water in urban areas of Africa, Asia and Latin America, according to the latest WHO/UNICEF data.
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    City politics: id21 insights, issue 38

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001
    By 2020 the world’s urban population will rise by almost 1.5 billion. Cities and towns house a growing
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    Politics vs aid: id21 insights, issue 39

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Aid and politics have always been connected. During the Cold War, for example, investment flows, development efforts and humanitarian assistance tended to reflect the changing pattern of superpower alliance and competition. Aid agencies were caught up in the dynamics of this situation. Since the Biafran
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    Water and sanitation goals: id21 insights, issue 45

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    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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    Safe as houses? Securing urban land tenure and property rights: id21 insights, issue 48

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    Millions of people in developing countries live without adequate security of tenure or property rights. The United Nations expects this group to increase by nearly 37 million a year to reach 1.5 billion by 2020. The problem is particularly acute in urban areas where the costs of access to legal land and housing are high and rising faster than incomes.
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    Europe and Central Asia, World Bank

    World bank website section covering Europe and Central Asia
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    The effects of a very young age structure in Yemen

    Population Action International, 2011
    Yemen has the most youthful age structure in the world outside of sub-Saharan Africa, with three-quarters of its population under the age of 30. It also has a very high fertility rate. Periodic terrorist attacks against foreign targets and its location as a base for al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula have highlighted the geopolitical significance of this country.

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