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    Can ICTs help increase literacy?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    There is growing awareness that it is not the learning of literacy skills that brings about social and economic benefits but the ability to use literacy in specific instances. Literacy learning must encourage the use of skills in real life situations and promote the transfer of literacy skills from the adult classroom into the external world.
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    Improving rural road networks – how do poor people benefit?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Decisions on rural road building have historically been made on mainly economic grounds. Planners and donors are now keen to include measurements of potential social benefits that new and improved roads can make to rural poor people.
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    Protecting HIV-infected Zambian children against opportunistic infections

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Evidence suggests that co-trimoxazole can help prevent bacterial infections in HIV- infected children.  The drug, which is cheap and widely available, has been recommended for infants of HIV-positive mothers and for certain HIV-positive children after infancy. How effective is this drug when bacterial resistance is high?
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    The GM decision-making process: who decides?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Genetically modified (GM) crops are legally grown in over 17 countries worldwide. Three of the world’s five largest GM producers – Argentina, China and Brazil – are developing countries (the other two are USA and Canada). How do governments in developing countries make decisions concerning GM crops and who has access to these decision-makers?
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    Does informal housing land delivery work for urban poor people?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Between 50 and 70 percent of land for housing in African cities is supplied informally. The social institutions that regulate transactions in land and relations between the actors involved are a mix of formal, customary and informal rules. Attempts to improve urban land administration often fail, partly because the social rules governing how people act in land markets are poorly understood.
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    Migrants lack information on UK banks’ remittance services

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Money sent by migrants to their families is the second largest financial flow to the developing world, after foreign direct investment. However, there is little information on remittance products and services available to migrants.  A new project ‘Sending Money Home?’ based in the UK, aims to fill this gap and make money transfers easier for those on a low income.
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    Human resources crisis in the Zambian health system: a call for urgent action

    Partners for Health Reformplus, 2005
    This paper, from PRHplus, examines the state of human resources for health in Zambia. Findings show that the Zambian public health sector has reach a point of crisis and is unable to provide basic health services.
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    Making cash count: lessons from cash transfer schemes in east and southern Africa for supporting the most vulnerable children and households

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    This study reviews unconditional cash transfers in 15 countries of east and southern Africa. It examines four programmes in more depth, in Ethiopia, Lesotho, Mozambique and Zambia, with an emphasis on design issues such as cost-effectiveness, accuracy of targeting, delivery modalities, institutionalisation and potential for scaling up.
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    The Global Fund: managing great expectations

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    The Global Fund was set up in 2002 to provide funds for the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.  How successful has it been so far at attracting, managing and distributing additional resources?
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    How can markets respond better to the 2005/06 food crisis: evidence from Zambia

    The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2005
    Despite massive financial contributions towards poverty alleviation, the frequency and severity of sub-Saharan food crises appear to be increasing. Why is this?

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