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  Can parliaments enhance the quality of democracy on the African continent? An analysis of institutional capacity and public perception

  Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2006

  Since the early 1990s, when many African countries resumed multi-party elections and democratic practices, legislative strengthening programmes have become an important part of international assistance. Parliaments are generally regarded as potential agents for democratic change but their actual role in enhancing the quality of democracy in Africa is far from clear.
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  Africa’s success: evaluating accomplishments

  John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2007

  This paper evaluates the seven presumed African success stories: Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, Ghana, Tanzania, Mozambique and Uganda. It gives a detailed analysis of the economic, political, governance and human development scenarios in each country, and identifies the emerging challenges.
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  Climate change, urban flooding, and the urban poor in Africa

  ActionAid International, 2006

  The UN Millenium summit committed to achieving ‘a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers’ by 2020. However, in Africa – the world’s fastest urbanising region – climate change is threatening that goal.
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  Science & technology and the PRSP process: a survey of recent country experiences

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2007

  This paper examines how the role of science and technology (S&T) as a driver of economic growth and poverty reduction has, in the last five years, been addressed in poverty reduction strategy papers (PRSP).
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  Predicting poverty for Mozambique 2000 to 2005: how robust are the models?

  Statistics Norway, 2007

  There is an increasing demand for more frequent measurements of the poverty situation. Statistics Norway has developed a method for monitoring the development in the time periods between full-fledged Household Income and Expenditure Surveys. The goal of this report is to test the method.
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  Uncritical citizenship in a low information society: Mozambicans in comparative perspective

  Afrobarometer, 2007

  This paper demonstrates that Mozambique has a distinctive profile of uncritical citizenship in which most Mozambicans do not express any opinion on their government and those who do overrate its performance. It also explores the extent to which this uncritical citizenship is a function of Mozambique’s ‘low information society’ characterised by:
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  Securing local resource rights in Africa: can the law support poor people?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008

  In the last ten years, legal reforms in some African countries have given local people more secure rights over natural resources. But gaps and loopholes (ways to evade rules) limit the potential benefits of these reforms. More importantly, many people are unaware of their rights, or lack the knowledge or means to enforce them.
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  Assessing household food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008

  Reducing hunger in developing countries depends on reliable estimates of food insecurity. Using data about how much food individual households acquire may be a more accurate way to measure dietary quantity and quality than national level data.
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  No quick fixes: rebuilding health systems after armed conflict

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  In the late twentieth century, 15 of the 20 poorest countries in the world experienced armed conflict. This has had devastating social and economic impacts, with public health one of the main casualties. Relief efforts provide short-term help but how do countries rebuild their health systems in the long term?
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  Southern Africa food security outlook: October 2007 to March 2008

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2007

  This report summarises the results of a study of the food security outlook for Southern Africa, highlighting the major threats to food security in the period October 2007 to March 2008. It incorporates the findings from six country outlooks, and aims to provide a basis for regional and global resource allocation and contingency planning, as well as in-country planning.

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