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    Understanding shit helps Zambian villagers meet sanitation goals

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    It is horrible to have shit around your home. If you do not wash you hands, you will eat your own and your neighbours' shit. By shocking local people with such direct language, a pilot project in Zambia creates a sense of disgust, which encourages people to improve sanitation and through this develop a strong sense of individual and community pride.
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    Africa's prospects: opportunity knocks

    The Economist, 2008
    Growth rates and poverty trends have been steadily improving in Africa since the 1990’s. Many countries have been helped by better macro-economic management and big inflows of Western aid, investment and debt relief. There have also been investments from Asia, particularly China, and the Middle East. Much of this investment has gone into the extractive industries.
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    'We are all poor here’: economic difference, social divisiveness, and targeting cash transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa

    University of Sussex, UK, 2008
    Although most social transfer schemes tend to confront targeting difficulties, this poses a particular challenge in poor Sub-Saharan African countries where very little distinguishes the economic conditions of the bottom 50-60 percent of the population, more so in rural areas. While this has been the experience for several programmes, the evidence is as yet of an anecdotal nature.
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    Urban families under pressure: conceptual and methodological issues in the study of poverty, HIV/AIDS and livelihood strategies

    International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 2005
    What have been the impacts of short-term shocks and long duration stresses on the well-being of urban households in sub-Saharan Africa? What factors mediate the impacts of such stresses? This background paper sets the context for research to be undertaken in low-income settlements in Nairobi, Kenya, and in Lusaka and Ndolo, Zambia.
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    Changing landscapes and the outliers: macro and micro factors influencing livelihood Trends in Zambia over the last thirty years

    CARE International, 2003
    What long-term trends underpinned the recent crisis in Zambia? How have rural Zambian households responded to it and to other macro level economic, political and structural changes?
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    Business and poverty: integrating the sustainable livelihoods approach with corporate citizenship

    Eldis Document Store, 2001
    How can relationships between business and society be better managed to the benefit of both?What does Sustainable Livelihoods Analysis (SLA) add to corporate citizenship approaches to facilitate social benefits from business activity?
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    Mainstreaming towards universal access

    International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2008
    This Alliance report (available in French and English) provides evidence of how policy and funding systems at the national and international levels help or hinder mainstreaming at the community level. It is based on qualitative research conducted in Burkina Faso, Cambodia, India and Zambia, involving interviews with more than 100 people from over 80 organisations.
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    City slums’ role in the decline of infant mortality in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    More than ten million young children under the age of five die each year. Most of these deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa, and are preventable.
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    Enterprises needed to stimulate growth and reduce poverty in Zambia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Zambia is one of the poorest countries in the world. Private sector development is seen as increasingly necessary to stimulate economic growth, reduce poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals. But Zambia, along with many of its African neighbours, lacks growth-oriented companies.
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    To Have and to Hold: Women's Property and Inheritance Rights in the Context of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

    International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2004
    What are the links between HIV/AIDS and women's property rights in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)? This paper asks if women's lack of rights increases household poverty and their own vulnerability to infection, and if securing these rights can reduce the impacts of the epidemic on poverty.

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