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    The experience of South African firms doing business in Africa: a preliminary survey and analysis

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2007
    A key challenge for Africa in the 21st century is to develop an enabling business environment.
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    Glimpse of hope in West Africa: the experience of South African firms doing business in Ghana

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2007
    Relations between Ghana and South Africa have improved and expanded greatly since 1994 in light of the political and economic transformations in both countries. Both investors and government officials in South Africa regard Ghana as a beacon of hope in the volatile, unstable and conflict-ridden West African region.
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    Socio-economic problems facing Africa: insights from six APRM country review reports

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009
    Analysis of the first six African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM )Country Review Reports reveals common problems in the sphere of socio-economic development, albeit to different degrees. What can we learn, and do the solutions proposed hold promise?
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    Home-Based Care Alliance policy brief: debunking myths

    Home-Based Care Alliance, 2013
    The Home-Based Care Alliance (HBCA) represents more than 30,000 caregivers organised into multi-district HBCAs in twelve African countries, caring for over 200,000 neighbours and friends, and with a history of organising around HIV/AIDS and its effects.
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    Home-Based Care Alliance (HBCA)

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    Biofuels for Sustainable Rural Development and Empowerment of Women, Case Studies from Africa and Asia

    International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy, 2009
    Poor communities in developing countries mainly depend on traditional biomass such as charcoal, wood and dung as other energy systems are often not accessible to them. Energy scarcity affects mainly women as they are the ones responsible for biomass collection.
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    Where energy is women's business: national and regional reports from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific

    ENERGIA: International Network on Gender & Sustainable Energy, 2007
    In the introduction to this publication, ENERGIA policy advisor and editor of this pubication Gail Karlsson writes, “In many developing countries, especially in the poorest areas, most energy currently comes from traditional biomass fuels such as wood, charcoal and agricultural wastes - and collection and managing these fuels is strictly ‘women’s business’.” She calls on national energy and dev
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    Landscape Analysis: Assessing Countries' Readiness to Scale up Nutrition Actions in the WHO African Region

    2012
    This paper assessed strengths and weaknesses in combating malnutrition in nine Sub-Saharan Africa nations with high stunting burden (Burkina-Faso, Comoros, Coted’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique and South Africa) in terms of the commitment and capacity.
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    Africa’s Silk Road: China and India’s new economics frontier

    World Bank, 2007
    This report finds that Asian trade and investment in Africa hold great promise for Africa’s economic growth and development – provided certain policy reforms on both continents are implemented. It provides systematic empirical evidence on how the two emerging economic giants of Asia – China and India – now stand at the crossroads of the explosion of African-Asian trade and investment.
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    The climate investment funds: in action

    African Development Bank, 2012
    The Climate Investment Fund (CIF) provides developing countries with concessional loans, equity, grants and risk mitigation instruments to leverage financing from multilateral banks, the private sector and other sectors. The African Development Bank (AfDB) is one of the five implementing agencies for the CIF concessional funds to Africa; this report is AfDB’s first semi-annual report on the CIF.

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