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    More aid for Africa is only a mixed blessing

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    The donor community has pledged to double aid to Africa by 2010. This presents Africa with great opportunities. But it can also make life harder for exporters and the private sector. Their production costs will have to be lowered but can aid help achieve that?
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    Improving basic education: post-basic education and training

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Many of the poorest countries are moving quickly towards providing primary education for all. Foreign donors have increased their support for the provision and monitoring of these efforts, but they could be wasted – and even damage the interests of poor people – if not enough attention is given to systems of post-basic education and training.
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    The effect of increased education on employment for Kenyan women

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Creation of wage jobs has not kept up with rapid growth in the workforce in sub-Saharan Africa. In Kenya, since the 1990s employment has become dominated by the informal sector, particularly for women. How has this affected the gender gap in employment? Does education increase women’s participation in the labour force?
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    Budget support to Ghana: a risk worth taking?

    Overseas Development Institute, 2007
    This policy brief presents a case study of general budget support (GBS) in Ghana. It is argued that, by providing aid as budget support, donors have taken risks and made important contributions to poverty alleviation and governance.
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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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    Exports are key to raising incomes in Ghana and Tanzania

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Donors and policymakers have placed poverty reduction at the top of their agenda. Raising the incomes of people in poor countries will be essential. What causes incomes to rise? What policies are needed to promote better paying jobs in sub-Saharan Africa?
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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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    Unjust waters: climate change, flooding and the protection of poor urban communities: experiences from six African cities

    ActionAid International, 2007
    Six years ago, at the UN Millennium Summit, world leaders set a specific target for realising the right to adequate housing and ‘continuous improvement of living conditions’. However, in Africa climate change is already threatening that goal, causing massive rural-urban migration and bringing chronic flooding to the cities.
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    The decline in public spending to agriculture: does it matter?

    Oxford Policy Management, 2007
    Public spending on agriculture is now recognised to be an important means of promoting economic growth and alleviating poverty in rural areas. However, this paper reveals that agricultural spending is not being prioritised within current budgets and, in many cases, is actually falling.
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    Ghanaian gold – resolving conflict over mining rights

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Prestea in southwest Ghana has been an important gold mining area for more than 100 years. Local people have worked as small-scale miners and as employees of large companies. However, there is now conflict between miners, mining companies and the government over the rights to mine some of the land.

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