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    Independent north-south child migration in Ghana: the decision making process

    Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2009
    Whilst migration is neither a new phenomenon, nor specific to any group of people, the trends and dynamics of population movements vary greatly over space and time.
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    Investigating whether apprenticeship pays off in Ghana

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Ghana has a highly developed apprenticeship system where young men and women undertake private training in specific areas. Apprentices are usually self-employed or employed by small firms in the increasingly important informal sector. Little is known, however, about how well apprenticeship pays relative to more formal training and academic education.
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    The Ghana APRM process: a case study

    UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2007
    This paper examines the context within which the Ghana APRM process was conducted, the nature of the assessment, the assessment process, and how the outcome of the assessment process was used.
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    Linking research and policy: the case of Ghana's rice trade policy

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2007
    Agricultural trade policies, in particular import tariffs to protect domestic production, constitute a highly contested field of agricultural policy.
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    Cross-Cultural Solutions

    Cross-Cultural Solutions offers volunteer programmes in Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Morocco, Peru, Russia, South Africa, Tanzania and Thailand, where volunteers work side-by-si
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    Make development inclusive: how to include the perspectives of persons with disabilities in the project cycle management guidelines of the EC

    Make Development Inclusive: mainstreaming disability in development cooperation, 2008
    Although one in five of the world’s poorest people are disabled, disability itself has not been included in world leaders’ plans to meet the millennium development goals. This manual is designed to be used during the project management process.
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    Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA)

    The Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA), launched in London in May 2008, is a multi-stakeholder alliance working to improve access and affordability of medicines for the one-third of the wo
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    Interest-group politics slows decentralisation in Ghana

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Despite several institutional and legal measures, decentralisation in Ghana has seen little progress. Instead, power and resources have become increasingly concentrated in key sector ministries, departments and agencies. Those involved in the process have competed rather than cooperated. This lack of progress can be explained by the politics of government and interest-group relations.
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    Fighting cycles of quiet starvation

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Seasonality is the most neglected dimension of rural deprivation. Seasonal hunger amongst poor rural people is a permanent global crisis, affecting seven out of every ten hungry people in the world. How can policymakers and development organisations fight seasonal hunger?
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    Agriculture in urban planning: generating livelihoods and food security

    International Development Research Centre, 2009
    This report, by researchers working in urban agriculture (UA), examines concrete strategies to integrate city farming into the urban landscape. Drawing on original field work in cities across the rapidly urbanising global South, the book examines the contribution of UA and city farming to livelihoods and food security.

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