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    Africa review report on drought and desertification

    UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2008
    Prepared by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in preparation for the sixteenth session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-16), this report reviews drought and desertification in Africa by bringing together inputs from member states, regional partners, available documentation and comment from various organisations and individuals.
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    Household sample surveys in developing and transition countries

    United Nations [UN] Statistics Division, 2005
    Detailed demographic and socio-economic data have become indispensable in economic and social policy analysis, development planning, programme management and decision-making at all levels. Consequently, policy-makers and other stakeholders have turned to household surveys as an important mechanism for collecting information on populations. [adapted from the authors]
  • Organisation

    The Oil, Gas and Mining Sustainable Community Development Fund (CommDev)

    The Oil, Gas and Mining Sustainable Community Development Fund (CommDev) is a funding mechanism for practical capacity building, training, technical assistance, implementation support, awareness-raisi
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    Secure land rights for all

    United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2008
    Secure land rights are important for development and poverty reduction and the greatest challenges for providing such rights are in urban, peri-urban areas, and the most productive rural areas.
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    Malawi Economic Justice Network (MEJN)

    Malawi Economic Justice Network (MEJN) is a coalition of civil society organisations, which have activities in the field of economic governance.
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    Scaling up basic services: effects of budget support on social sector results

    Department for International Development, UK, 2008
    Evidence shows that poverty reduction budget support (PRBS) can have positive effects on social sector results. There are strong flow-of-funds effects, but institutional and policy effects are weaker as budget support's impact upon matters deeply rooted in a country's political system is limited.
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    It's all about jobs: perceptions of performance in Namibia

    Institute of Public Policy Research, Namibia, 2008
    Namibia is facing another round of national elections, and pre-election manoeuvring has already begun. Two new political parties have emerged, and existing parties are getting ready for another go.
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    Corruption, institutional discredit, and exclusion of the poor: a poverty trap

    Afrobarometer, 2007
    This paper explores direct effects of corruption on the poor. Based on an analysis of data from comparable household surveys conducted in 18 sub-Saharan African countries, the paper shows that poverty and corruption are locked in a self-reinforcing vicious cycle. The main arguments of the paper are:
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    Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania

    The Advanced Study of India is the only research institution in the United States dedicated to the study of contemporary India.
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    Quest for economic development in agrarian localities: Lessons from West Nile, Uganda

    Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands, 2008
    This paper describes the transformations that have taken place in the honey production and marketing in West Nile since the launch of the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) programme in 2001. In pursuing local economic development, emphasis has been placed on community-based development and the formation of clusters of survival enterprises.

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