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    Zambia- condemned to debt: how the IMF and World Bank have undermined development

    World Development Movement, 2004
    With a focus on Zambia, this report intends to explore the conditions that the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) have attached to loans, and more recently debt relief.The report finds that:the economic influence wielded by the IMF and World Bank and the dogmatic free market approach to economic policy of these two powerful institutions, contributed to Zambia’s economic declin
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    How appropriate is software for developing ICT literacy in Africa?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Teacher training institutions in even the poorest African countries are slowly being equipped with computers. Increasingly, teachers are being exposed to new information and communication technologies (ICTs).
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    Helping older people who care for grandchildren orphaned and affected by AIDS

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    An estimated 13 million children under the age of 15 have already lost either one or both parents to HIV/AIDS. A further 40 million children will lose their parents within the next 10 years. As the HIV/AIDS epidemic hits families in Africa and Asia, large numbers of grandparents are assuming responsibility for the care of orphans and vulnerable children.
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    Teacher and health care provider absence: a multi-country study

    World Bank, 2004
    This paper looks at the incidence and causes of absenteeism in public health workers and teachers in eight countries. Research was based on unannounced visits to a random sample of health care facilities and schools.
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    ICT and literacy: who benefits?: experience from Zambia and India

    Commonwealth of Learning, 2004
    This paper reflects the findings of a three-and-a-half-year project that tested how useful various information and communication technology applications were in providing literacy programmes.The project highlighted a number of the issues that arise from ICT implementation in the developing world:ICT projects need to be planned around, or address lack of internet connectivity in many are
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    African Economic Outlook 2003/2004

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004
    The third edition of the African Economic Outlook assesses recent economic changes and likely evolutions and challenges on the continent.
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    The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture: a review of progress and challenges in the SADC region

    Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, 2003
    The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (URAA) bears important implications for developing countries, including those of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), whose agricultural sectors are critical to economic growth, poverty alleviation and food security.
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    Public expenditure tracking surveys in education

    International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO, 2004
    This document examines two tools for tracking public expenditure in the education sector, namely the Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS) and the quantitative service delivery survey (QSDS), using case studies from Uganda, Peru and Zambia.The first chapter of this document describes actors in the education sector and the accountability relationships between them as a conceptual framework w
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    Social communications and AIDS population behaviour changes in Uganda compared to other countries

    Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation, South Africa, 2004
    This study from CADRE examines communications through social networks associated with population behaviour change and a decline in HIV prevalence in Uganda compared with other countries.
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    Fiscal policy and growth in Africa: fiscal federalism, decentralization and the incidence of taxation

    UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003
    The paper investigates the tax reforms undertaken in a sample of randomly selected five African countries, taken together, namely Egypt, Senegal, Gabon, Kenya and Zambia. Reflecting the government's greatly expanding role in the economy, total public sector expenditure increased rapidly over the last two decades. However, public sector revenue growth has not matched public expenditure growth.

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