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    Dangling by a thread: how sharp are the Chinese scissors?

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    This report examines the impact that China’s booming export industry is having on the textile and furniture exports and jobs in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The report finds that:China’s economic expansion has significant implications for SSA industry and growth by indirectly excluding outward-oriented SSA producers from global markets, and directly it squeezes locally-focused producers
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    Corporate governance: observance of standards and codes

    World Bank, 2006
    As part of the Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC) programme by the World Bank and IMF, this internet resource brings together country by country implementation assessments. The goal of the ROSC initiative is to identify weaknesses that may contribute to a country’s economic and financial vulnerability.
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    Making city growth work for poor people

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Do poor people benefit from urban economic growth and if so, how? Conventional theory suggests that almost everyone should gain from economic growth. Eventually that growth should trickle down even to very poor people. In practice, however, the process has brought mixed results. The relationship between growth and poverty reduction is more complex.
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    Identifying financial constraints under trade liberalisation: lessons from Kenya, Uganda and Ghana

    Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2006
    This paper explores the influence that financial sector deficits have had on a country's export performance under trade liberalisation.
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    Ghana’s education crisis: improve teachers’ conditions and make learning relevant

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Ghana is committed to making education more effective and appropriate. However its teachers are over-worked, under-motivated and mostly under-qualified. The Ghanaian state expects a great deal from its teachers but does not reward them well. Respect for education and the teaching profession are in decline.
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    Creating Spaces of Resistance: Development NGOs and their Clients in Ghana, India and Mexico

    Blackwell Synergy, 2004
    Development NGOs have been accused by some of being new instruments of control, domesticated by the neo-liberal project. This paper argues, however, that although the majority of women's NGOs have been co-opted to serve mainstream development agendas, such groups nevertheless do bring women together away from men, and create social spaces for women to set their own priorities.
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    West Africa reproductive health commodity security study: Ghana reproductive health commodity security country assessment

    Deliver, 2005
    This country assessment from USAID and DELIVER examines the supply of reproductive health commodities in Ghana. The assessment was commissioned as part of the West Africa Reproductive Health Commodity Security study.
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    Till to tiller: linkages between international remittances and access to land in West Africa

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004
    This paper, prepared for FAO’s Land Tenure Service and Sub-programme, explores the role remittances have on people’s access to land and natural resources.
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    Beyond the basics: balancing education and training systems in developing countries

    Journal of Education for International Development, 2006
    This paper argues that since 1990, post-primary or post-basic education has received far less support than primary education. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that concomitant support is needed to both post-basic education and training (PBET) and to the development of a supportive labour market environment for economic growth and poverty reduction.
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    International nurse mobility: trends and policy implications

    World Health Organization, 2003
    This report from the World Health Organization (WHO) examines the trends and policy implications of nurses moving from the developing world to work in wealthier countries.

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