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    Pensions for life?: id21 insights, issue 42

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The 1990s could well qualify as the decade of global pension reform. A number of countries in Latin America and some transition economies radically transformed their pension provision and moved swiftly towards privately provided individual retirement plans.
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    Getting rights right - Is access to justice as important as access to health or education?: id21 insights, issue 43

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    A core government function is to provide an effective system of justice for its citizens. Yet many governments fail to deliver on the basic services of protecting physical safety, securing personal property and settling disputes quickly and fairly. Recent studies have highlighted the fact that for poor people, access to justice
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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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    Beyond the BICs: identifying the ‘emerging middle powers’ and understanding their role in global poverty reduction

    Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2010
    Much attention has been focused on the BICs (Brazil, India and China) and how they are changing global politics and economics. However, there is also a further tier of emerging middle powers ‘beyond the BICs’ that are playing a more prominent role in regional and global arenas.
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    Proportional representation and popular assessments of MP performance in South Africa: a desire for electoral reform?

    Afrobarometer, 2009
    Electoral reform has been attracting increasing interest in South Africa and a panel of experts has recommended that South Africa’s electoral system be reformed into a mixed system that would include a constituency-based electoral system as one of its components.
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    Lost in the vortex: irregularities in the detention and deportation of non-nationals in South Africa

    The Forced Migration Studies Programme, University of the Witwatersrand, 2010
    The Lindela Detention Centre in South Africa is a holding facility for the temporary detention of 'illegal foreigners' while they await deportation. This report argues that despite the authority's efforts to improve operations at the facility, there continue to be systematic violations of the law at Lindela.
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    Elections and accountability in South Africa

    Institute for Security Studies, 2009
    Allowing citizens to decide whether or not to extend a government’stenure through regular elections is the principal mechanism of politicalaccountability. It compels politicians to be more responsive to theelectorate’s needs. Citizens use their vote to choose better governmentsand to structure incentives for the incumbents that should induce themto behave while in office.
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    Problematising civil society: on what terrain does xenophobia flourish?

    Atlantic Philanthropies, 2010
    This study examines whether there is a need to reconceptualise civil society organisations (CSOs) in South Africa, given the fragmented and uneven responses of CSOs to the May 2008 violence. The document states that with the end of apartheid, donors were keen to support the new legitimate government and looked to the new government to direct development.
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    Transparency in trade policymaking: lessons for South Africa from Australia’s experiences

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2010
     Trade policy reform in the form of trade liberalisation is a very important tool for raising living standards and improving a country’s economy. Such reform on its own, however, is likely to be rejected by the public and those sectors that would be most adversely affected.
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    Managing for development results: a focus on Africa

    African Community of Practice, 2010
    Strong and effective institutions are fundamental to achieving sustainable development outcomes in Africa. Effort to achieve ownership, a key aspect of every development intervention,  is often lacking in African contexts. This publication provides concrete approaches to overcoming the issue through participatory processes and capacity building.

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