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  How Africa can get more from relations with China

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008

  China’s emergence is having a big impact on Africa. But the relationship presents challenges as well as opportunities. How can Africa influence Chinese policy in order to benefit more from its relations with this important partner?
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  Comparative health systems research in a context of HIV/AIDS: lessons from a multi-country study in South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia

  Health Research Policy and Systems, 2007

  This report from Health Research Policy and Systems Journal states that comparative, multi-country research has been underutilised as a means to inform health system expansion in the developing world. The authors argue that in the context of HIV/AIDS, the need for regional learning has increased because of the regional nature of migration and its contribution to disease spread.
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  Making free trade work for women in Southern Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008

  Trade agreements are being negotiated between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. While the treaties are meant to promote free trade and economic growth, their impacts on women will not necessarily be positive. Gender analysis must be part of trade negotiations if women are to share in the benefits.
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  China-Africa economic relations: the case of Zambia

  African Economic Research Consortium, 2008

  The paper aims to provide information on the size, structure and significance of China-Zambia relations. It specifically studies the nature and scope of Chinese investment in Zambia, the pattern and magnitude of trade between China and Zambia.
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  How to end child marriage: action strategies for prevention and protection

  International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2007

  Girls who marry as children (younger than 18 years of age) are often more susceptible to the health risks associated with early sexual initiation and childbearing, including HIV and obstetric fistula. Lacking status and power, these girls are often subjected to domestic violence, sexual abuse and social isolation.
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  Fertiliser subsidies and sustainable agricultural growth in Africa: current issues and empirical evidence from Malawi, Zambia, and Kenya

  The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2008

  The role of input subsidies in stimulating growth and addressing food security and poverty alleviation objectives has re-emerged as an important  debate in agricultural policy.
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  Improving the education response to HIV and AIDS: Lessons of partner efforts in coordination, harmonisation, alignment, information sharing and monitoring in Jamaica, Kenya, Thailand and Zambia

  UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team on Education, 2008

  Education contributes toward the knowledge and personal skills essential for the prevention of HIV, and the mitigation of the impacts caused by AIDS. Education also helps to overcome the conditions that facilitate the spread of HIV, including poverty, ill health, violence and abuse, particularly against girls and women.
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  Local voices: a community perspective on HIV and hunger in Zambia

  Action Against Hunger, 2008

  This report documents the findings of Local Voices, a six month qualitative research project that provided HIV orphans, vulnerable children and their carers with the opportunity to discuss and document the difficulties they face providing food, water and healthcare for their families.
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  Regional Evidence Building Agenda (REBA) Thematic Briefs

  Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2008

  This series of briefs provides a regional synthesis of findings of 12 thematic studies and 20 individual case studies of social transfer schemes undertaken by the Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme (RHVP) in southern Africa.
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  Meso-level restructuring of the food industry in developing countries: synthesis report - meso study

  Sustainable Markets Group, IIED, 2008

  Rapid changes are taking place in the structure and governance of national and regional agrifood markets in developing countries, affecting the agricultural sector's ability to contribute to economic growth, poverty reduction and sustainable rural development.

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