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    Low-carbon energy projects for development in Sub-Saharan Africa Unveiling the potential, addressing the barriers

    World Bank, 2008
    Sub-Saharan Africa has an opportunity of choosing a cleaner development pathway via low-carbon energy alternatives that can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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    Common African political governance issues: lessons from six early APRM reports

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009
    This paper analyses the discussion and recommendations about Africa's pressing political governance issues - including the separation of powers, election management and corruption - from the APRM reports of Ghana, Rwanda, Kenya, South Africa, Algeria and Benin.
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    Clinical social franchising: an annual compendium of programs, 2009

    University of California, Los Angeles, 2009
    Social franchising represents one of the best known ways to rapidly scale up clinical health interventions in developing countries. Building upon existing expertise in poor and isolated communities, social franchising organisations engage private medical practitioners to add new services to the range of services they already offer.
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    Cross-Cultural Solutions

    Cross-Cultural Solutions offers volunteer programmes in Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Morocco, Peru, Russia, South Africa, Tanzania and Thailand, where volunteers work side-by-si
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    Fighting cycles of quiet starvation

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Seasonality is the most neglected dimension of rural deprivation. Seasonal hunger amongst poor rural people is a permanent global crisis, affecting seven out of every ten hungry people in the world. How can policymakers and development organisations fight seasonal hunger?
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    Pensions in Africa

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
    In sub-Saharan Africa less than 10% of the older population has a contributory pension. This paper discusses why the development of pension systems is important for the African region. It also looks at the current pension arrangements in selected African countries: Botswana, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia
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    Voices from the South. The impact of the global financial crisis on developing countries

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    The global financial crisis is already beginning to have an impact on the ‘real economy’ in poorer countries around the world. However, the debate in the west about the impact of the crisis has largely ignored its impact on the developing world, and the voices of people from these countries are rarely heard.
  • Organisation

    The Traditional Authority Applied Research Network, University of Calgary (TAARN)

    TAARN is a network of those concerned with applying research on chiefs to various development issues.
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    Chieftaincy, sovereignty and legitimacy and development: a pilot newspaper survey of the role of chiefs in three aspects of development

    The Traditional Authority Applied Research Network, University of Calgary, 2004
    This paper evaluates the potential and the reality of traditional chiefs in contributing to development, based on a on a newspaper survey. It focuses on three major themes addressing the involvement of chiefs in development: Education, Political Succession and Economic Development.
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    Post-basic education and training for poverty reduction

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Currently, many donors channel most of their aid for education to achieving the two education Millennium Development Goals. However, a more balanced approach is needed, to reflect the further benefits of post-basic education and training.

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