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    Transparency & silence: a survey of access to information laws and practices in fourteen countries

    Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2006
    The ability of citizens to request and receive information on the workings of their government is crucial to ensure transparency and accountability. This report provides a snapshot on the state of access to information in fourteen countries. It provides the results of a study undertaken to discover how government offices and agencies respond to specific requests for information.
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    New actors in health financing: implications for a donor darling

    OECD Development Centre, 2006
    This policy brief, by the OECD Development Centre, examines trends in development finance, focusing on the emergence of new actors such as global funds, foundations and NGOs, who provide additional financial flows. The paper draws on the experience of Ghana’s health sector.
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    Report on current situation in the health sector of Ghana and possible roles of appropriate transport technology and transport related communication interventions

    Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, 2005
    This report, by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, provides data on the health sector in Ghana, with an overview of health trends and health and transport policies the country. It shows that Ghana has developed a comprehensive transport policy for regional, district, sub-district and community levels of health care.
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    Patents, compulsory license and access to medicines: some recent experiences

    Third World Network, 2007
    Patents can affect the access of patients (especially the poor) to medicines. The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) also affects the space available to developing country Members of WTO to formulate the drug patent policies of their choice.
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    When urban meets rural: opportunities for people on the edge

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Cities in developing countries are growing fast. Population growth and migration from rural areas to cities mean that the edges of urban areas are changing: buildings are constructed on agricultural land and cash becomes more important in the local economy. This means that there is no longer a clear divide between urban and rural.
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    Funding crisis hits free childbirth policy in Ghana

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Policymakers all over the world face the same problem: how to sustain funding for public sector programmes. In 2003, Ghana introduced a policy of free childbirth which won widespread support, only to be interrupted two years later due to inadequate funding. What causes high-profile and important initiatives to fail in this way?
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    Anglo American: the alternative report

    War on Want, 2007
    This report documents the performance of the world’s second largest mining company with regard to corporate social responsibility (CSR). Despite Anglo American’s participation in various voluntary CSR initiatives, it continues to abuse human rights, fuel conflict and damage the local environment and livelihoods.
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    Institute for Democratic Governance

    As a civil society research, advocacy and capacity building organisation, IDEG is committed to a set of organisational principles and objectives.
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    Ghana: democracy and political participation

    Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project, 2007
    This research assesses the level of democratic development in Ghana and provides an analysis on the openness of various democratic spaces. While welcoming the substantial progress made since 1992, the report draws attention to the challenges that still threaten the consolidation of democracy and political participation in Ghana.
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    Ghana’s new regulatory environment is not helping small businesses

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are important to economic growth and development in Ghana. But they continue to face many constraints to growth. How does the current government’s private sector strategy affect SMEs? And what impact is regulation having on their performance?

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