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  Governing for Equity, Gender, Citizenship and Governance

  Royal Tropical Institute, 2003

  This publication comes out of the Gender, Citizenship and Governance programme of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Netherlands. The project aimed to develop good practice in changing governance institutions to promote gender equality, enhance citizen participation and build accountability of public administration systems.
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  Is information enough?: user responses to seasonal climate forecasts in Southern Africa

  Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2000

  This report discusses user responses to seasonal climate forecasts in southern Africa, with an emphasis on small-scale farmers in Namibia and Tanzania. The study examines if and how farmers received, used, and perceived the forecasts in the 1997/98 agricultural season.
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  Why is southern Africa hungry?: the roots of southern Africa's food crisis

  Christian Aid, 2003

  This paper, based on Christian Aid's submission to the House of Commons International Select Committee on International Development, takes an in-depth look at the causes of southern Africa's crisis and looks to ‘real’ solutions beyond the continuation of the humanitarian relief effort.Issues addressed include:Chronic poverty - Food shortages are endemic among subsistence farmers
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  Impacts of agricultural research on poverty: findings of an integrated economic and social analysis

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper examines how agricultural technologies influence and are influenced by the diverse livelihood strategies, vulnerability context, relations of gender and power, and other conditions of the poor. It reports findings of a CGIAR research project including seven case studies of different types of agricultural research:
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  Do African manufacturing firms learn from exporting?

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2002

  This paper examines two explanations for the positive association between export-participation status and productivity: self-selection of the relatively more efficient plants into exporting learning by exporting. It uses panel data on manufacturing firms in four African countries: Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya and Zimbabwe.It finds:consistent with the learning-by-exporting
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  State of denial: adolescent reproductive rights in Zimbabwe

  Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 2002

  This report, produced by the Center for Reproductive Rights, documents the legal, policy and social barriers which prevent Zimbabwean adolescents from accessing dual protection methods and information.
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  Can decentralisation promote pro-poor development planning systems?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Can development planning close the gap between high level strategic thinking and the local level context? How can national poverty reduction strategy papers (PRSPs) complement the decentralisation of development functions? Are local government officials sufficiently sensitive to development needs? How can we judge the successes and failures of decentralisation processes?
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  Risk sharing in labour markets

  Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2003

  This paper challenges the traditional view that rent sharing explains the correlation in cross-sections between wages and profitability. In contrast, this paper argues that risk sharing between workers and employers explains much of this relationship.
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  Culture, identity and reproductive failure in Zimbabwe

  African Networks for Health Research and Development, 2001

  This article describes findings from a study of reproductive failure conducted in Zimbabwe. It examines the perspectives of men and women who believed they were potential reproductive failures by not having the socially expected numbers and types of children.
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  Long term consequences of early childhood malnutrition

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper explores the long-term consequences of shocks on children’s health and education using longitudinal data from rural Zimbabwe.

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