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    Globalisation, qualifications and livelihoods: shifts in the educational structure of Zimbabwe following economic liberalisation

    Eldis Document Store, 2005
    Zimbabwe commenced a programme of economic liberalisation in 1990. This report analyses secondary sources to examine how that process has affected the educational structures available to young people in the country.The findings indicate that not all of the changes to the education system are the result of economic liberalisation.
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    Alcohol production and use in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Socio-economic changes have influenced an increase in alcohol consumption in Africa during the last half of the 20th century. Public health problems linked to alcohol have also risen. How has alcohol consumption in Africa changed and what have been its effects?
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    Nano-dialogues: Helping scientists to meet poor people’s needs

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Researchers from Demos, Practical Action and the University of Lancaster collaborated on a project designed to engage Zimbabwean community groups and scientists, from both the North and South, in debates about new nanotechnologies.
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    Land reform in Zimbabwe: a cure for poverty?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Unjust land distribution is a legacy of colonial policies that took resources away from indigenous groups. At independence, many states had a minority of white settlers owning large commercial farms while the indigenous majority were left with small plots of land. Land redistribution has been a policy of many governments.
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    Understanding and reducing persistent poverty in Africa: introduction to a special issue

    Journal of Development Studies, 2006
    This paper introduces a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies that explores persistent poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. As a set, these papers aim to break new ground in exploring the dynamics of structural poverty. The articles integrate qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis using longitudinal data and country case studies.
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    Engendered Measurement of Extension Effort in Nyamazura Area of Mutare District - Implications for Extension and Research Policy for Smallholder Support

    BRIDGE, 2006
    Why is gender-disaggregated information about farmer perspectives on extension work important? The local farmers' association in the Nyamazura scheme of Mutare district of Zimbabwe complained about a decline in service delivery after the Land Reform Programme of 2000.
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    Reforming maize markets and regional food security

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2006
    This policy brief encourages greater civil society involvement in debates around national grain (particularly maize) policies and regional food insecurity in Southern African Development Community countries.
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    Skilled health professionals’ migration and its impact on health delivery in Zimbabwe

    The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford, 2004
    This paper, published by the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, investigates the magnitude of migration of health professionals from Zimbabwe, the causes of such movements and the associated impacts on health care delivery. It establishes the major reasons for migration including: poor living conditions, low wages and political violence.
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    Helping others, helping yourself

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    In African societies, poor people help each other. Self-help has a long tradition in southern African culture. But development processes often overlook indigenous philanthropy. How and why do poor people give each other support?
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    The importance of human resources management in health care: a global context

    Human Resources for Health, 2006
    This paper, from Human Resources for Health, highlights the importance of human resources management (HRM) in improving overall patient health outcomes and delivery of health care services. The authors demonstrate how HRM is essential to any health care system and how it can improve health care models.

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