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    Looking a gift horse in the mouth: the case of Zambia’s refusal to accept american food aid

    Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2007
    A failure to recongnise the complexity of food issues has led to the development of diverse and conflicting regulatory systems to address food trade and food safety. This paper uses the example of Zambia's refusal of American GM maize as food aid in 2002 to illustrate this point. It discusses:
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    Report of the summative evaluation of the essential obstetric care project in Mpongwe, Masaiti and Lufwanyama

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2000
    This document reports on a UNICEF project aimed at reducing maternal mortality in three rural districts in Zambia. The strategy adopted was to improve the quality of obstetric care at primary level health facilities and ensure supportive complementary care at second and tertiary level referral hospitals.
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    Moving young

    United Nations Population Fund, 2006
    Why do young people move? Who are they? This report explores the lives of young migrants from or those whose lives are marked by the experiences of spouses or relatives who have moved abroad.
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    Paying their way: health financing mechanisms in Zambia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Health services in many low-income countries charge user fees. These payments may deter the poorest people from seeking treatment. Zambia has tried two alternatives to user fees: prepayment and discount cards. How do these schemes affect equity in the use of health services?
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    Mirror on the media: gender and advertising in Southern Africa

    Gender Links, Johannesburg, 2007
    Covering 1,650 radio, television, print and billboard advertisements in Mauritius, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe, this study establishes how women and men are represented and portrayed in advertising. Key findings of the study include:
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    Aid to fragile states: do donors help or hinder?

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2007
    This paper examines the relationship between state failure and development assistance.
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    The destination of exports determines wages in sub-Saharan Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    International trade is believed to stimulate growth and raise wages in developing countries. But there is little evidence on the impact of trade on individual workers’ incomes. In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) does exporting tend to raise or lower wages for manufacturing workers?
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    Designing social funds for government decentralisation

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Social funds and decentralised government are two distinct phenomena which are spreading rapidly throughout the developing world. The burning question is: can social funds, which have emerged in most countries as a highly centralised model, adapt to decentralised environments?
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    Building governance and civil society: learning and innovation from local funds

    CARE International, 2006
    This paper explores questions around best practice for competitive grant-making mechanisms for supporting civil society. It particularly focuses on three case studies built around programmes from Zambia, Tanzania and Bangladesh.
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    Trends in poverty and inequality in seven African countries

    Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2007
    Conventional approaches to measuring poverty and inequality that use money-metric data overlook social aspects of poverty. This paper uses the multidimensional, asset index, approach to analyse trends in poverty and inequality in seven African countries including Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

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