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    The problems with resettling miners in Ghana

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Ghana’s gold mining industry is dominated by large, mechanised mines, often owned by foreign companies. These create few employment opportunities for local people and many subsistence farmers have lost their land. Some displaced people have begun to generate an income by illegally mining gold deposits near the ground surface, known locally as ‘galamsey’ miners.
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    Post-basic education and training for poverty reduction

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Currently, many donors channel most of their aid for education to achieving the two education Millennium Development Goals. However, a more balanced approach is needed, to reflect the further benefits of post-basic education and training.
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    Institutions, organizations and the poverty/environment nexus: challenges to a rights-based approach to management of coastal resources in Colombia and Ghana

    Inter-Agency Standing Committee, 2008
    Coastal zones globally are hot spots when it comes to the challenges of sustainable resource management and poverty reduction. They used to be relatively under populated and placid. This is now changing due to growing population movements towards coastal zones.
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    Action is needed to provide affordable bandwidth for Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Africa’s data transmission capacity is limited by poor infrastructure. As a result of inadequate terrestrial networks much inter-African communication is expensively routed, often via satellite, through Europe and North America. The ownership and management of sub-Saharan Africa’s only submarine cable benefit national telecommunications companies.
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    Adapting to flood risks in urban Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Volatile weather patterns are increasingly affecting urban slums in Africa. Climate change is already aggravating urban flooding. When floods occur, residents of marginalised areas have only a limited set of options. They need urgent help to reduce risk and improve prospects for emergency action and safe evacuation.
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    Demographics and climate change: future trends and their policy implications for migration

    Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2008
    This working paper seeks to explore the potential impact of future demographic and climate change on migration patterns in developing countries, in order to identify policy implications for international development and evidence gaps that could be plugged with appropriate new research.
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    Size Matters for EFA

    Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity, 2008
    This monograph reviews literature on school and class size. It estimates the numbers of small schools and numbers of children learning in small schools worldwide, and concludes by looking at implications for on-going and future CREATE studies, in particular the Community and School studies in Bangladesh, Ghana and India.
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    Ghana country report on the implementation of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA)

    United Nations Programme on Ageing, 2008
    This Country Report gives a brief account of the approaches adopted and activities carried out by the various stakeholders, relevant Government and Non-Governmental organisations in the five years since the 2002 Second World Assembly on Ageing in Madrid and the adoption of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA).
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    Why have donors committed so few direct investments to eliminate child undernutrition?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    The mandate of most international donors is to reduce poverty, suffering and inequity. Addressing child undernutrition falls within this. However, current donor investment to directly address undernutrition is estimated to be well under half of the resources required.
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    Promoting value chains of neglected and underutilized species for pro-poor growth and biodiversity conservation: guidelines and good practices

    Bioversity International, 2008
    Use of neglected and underutilised species (NUS) can play an important role in improving food security, conserving biodiversity and generating income and employment. Value chain development (VCD) can be a useful tool for realising these prospects, by linking supply capacities to market opportunities.

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