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    Developing flexible models for primary teacher training in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    In Africa, at least 20 countries are at risk of failing to meet the Education for All target. If reasonable student to teacher ratios are to be put in place, increasing the number and quality of teachers in primary education is essential. As the trend in training shifts away from traditional institutions, a more flexible approach is emerging in Africa.
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    The implications of horizontal inequality for Aid

    Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity, CRISE, Oxford University, 2006
    This paper argues that the reduction of Horizontal Inequalities (HIs), or inequalities between culturally defined groups, should inform aid policy in heterogeneous countries with severe HIs.
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    Evaluating co-ordination and complementarily of Country Strategy Papers with National Development Priorities

    Department for International Development, UK, 2006
    This study examines the role which the Country Strategy Papers (CSPs) and similar policy documents of the EC play in improving coordination and complementarity between EC and member states’ aid programmes.
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    Making military and security forces in West Africa accountable

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Governments and civil society in many West African countries are trying to restore security. Democratising states or complete rebuilding of collapsed states provides opportunities for security sector reform (SSR). However, democratisation does not necessarily make police, army and intelligence services accountable to parliaments and citizens.
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    Alcohol production and use in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Socio-economic changes have influenced an increase in alcohol consumption in Africa during the last half of the 20th century. Public health problems linked to alcohol have also risen. How has alcohol consumption in Africa changed and what have been its effects?
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    Voices of child migrants: a better understanding of how life is

    Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2006
    There is a significant gap between how children see their own experiences of migration and the way that child migrants are often represented. This report presents accounts from 16 children from Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, India and Ghana who were interviewed in the course of the Migration DRC research so as to highlight what children themselves think and say about their lives.
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    African poverty through the lens of labor economics: earnings and mobility in three countries

    ESRC Global Poverty Research Group, 2006
    To understand poverty in Africa it is crucial to understand the performance of the small scale sector, from which the vast majority of the poor earn their living.
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    Farmers on the fringe: peri-urban agriculture and urban waste

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Solid and liquid wastes are a valuable resource for poor people living around cities.  Informal use of urban wastes in farming and aquaculture is vital to livelihoods and a key component of waste disposal, but is not integrated into official urban waste management strategies.
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    Understanding and reducing persistent poverty in Africa: introduction to a special issue

    Journal of Development Studies, 2006
    This paper introduces a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies that explores persistent poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. As a set, these papers aim to break new ground in exploring the dynamics of structural poverty. The articles integrate qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis using longitudinal data and country case studies.
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    Promoting gender equality in new aid modalities and partnerships: experiences from Africa

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2006
    In line with the increasing emphasis on aid effectiveness, including promoting new partnerships for channeling aid, this paper reports on the extent to which gender equality is and should be part of this agenda.

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