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  Pro-poor initiatives to reduce poverty in southern Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Pro-poor initiatives are a common feature of measures to commercialise natural resources in southern Africa. Several pro-poor models have been set up to reduce the gap between elites and marginalised groups, urban and rural populations and the rich and poor.
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  Guest Editorial: Governing poverty in the new South Africa and beyond

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  This month, South Africa celebrates its first ten years of democracy by returning to the polls. On election day the Rand stood at R6.50 to the US dollar. Twenty-eight months ago the Rand was valued at over R13 to the US dollar. South Africans have not become twice as wealthy, but those with property, land, natural resources and wealth have enhanced their value.
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  Report of the Southern Africa civil society consultation

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This paper reports on the Southern Africa regional consultation conference on the Commission for Africa (CFA). Participants came from civil society groups from Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Zambia. At the conclusion of the two day meeting the participants released a communiqué of the meeting and its deliberations.
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  Resisting repression: legislative and political obstacles to civic space in southern and eastern Africa

  CIVICUS - World Alliance for Citizen Participation, 2004

  This study focuses on the legislative frameworks and country practices relating to freedom of association, expression and assembly in Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa. The study focuses on the grave and worsening situation in Zimbabwe, as part of an advocacy intervention under the Civil Society Watch Programme.
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  The curse of remoteness: why some African households fail to benefit from economic growth

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Economic growth in some African countries has improved the well-being of the poorest. However, in remote areas poverty remains entrenched. New research argues that Africa’s economic growth will not be translated into poverty reduction until the poor are given better access to markets and to basic infrastructure, such as roads.
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  Urban-Rural Inequality in Living Standards in Africa

  Poverty, inequality and development research at Cornell University, 2003

  This paper examines the relative importance of rural versus urban areas in terms of monetary poverty and seven other related living standards indicators. The authors present levels of urban-rural differences for several African countries (where data is available) and find that living standards in rural areas lag far behind those in urban areas.
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  25 years of essential medicines progress

  Essential Drugs and Medicine Policy, WHO, 2003

  The historic first meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on the Selection of Essential Drugs took place in Geneva in 1977. Today, more than 150 countries have adopted the concept and developed their own national lists of essential medicines.This special issue of the Essential Drugs Monitor, produced by the WHO, celebrates 25 years of the essential medicines concept.
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  The IMF: wrong diagnosis, wrong medicine

  Oxfam, 1999

  Prepared as part of Oxfam International's Education Now campaign, this briefing paper evaluates the International Monetary Fund (IMF), offering information, statistics, case studies and recommendations for change.
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  Health, shocks and poverty persistence

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2003

  This paper, published by World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), reviews the evidence on the impact of droughts and other serious “shocks” (transitory events which worsen the economic situation of a household) on child and adult health, focusing particularly on Zimbabwe and Ethiopia.
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  Impacts of agricultural research on poverty: findings of an integrated economic and social analysis

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper examines how agricultural technologies influence and are influenced by the diverse livelihood strategies, vulnerability context, relations of gender and power, and other conditions of the poor. It reports findings of a CGIAR research project including seven case studies of different types of agricultural research:

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