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  The humanitarian crisis in southern Africa: volume 1

  International Development Committee, UK, 2003

  In early 2002 southern Africa was gripped by food shortages. These were just one aspect of a complex humanitarian crisis, with impacts ranging across all sectors, from agriculture, to education and health. The trigger for the crisis was erratic rainfall.
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  Chronic poverty and remote rural areas

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2002

  Successive policy approaches have failed to relieve long-term poverty among people living in remote rural areas (RRAs). This working paper from the Chronic Poverty Research Centre looks at the factors that hamper poverty reduction in these areas. It argues that development approaches that have worked elsewhere cannot always be transposed to remote areas.
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  Smallholder income and land distribution in Africa: implications for poverty reduction strategies

  The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2001

  It has been argued that many of the poverty reduction strategy papers pay insufficient attetion to the role of land access and land distribution in rural poverty. Redressing the inequalities between small-scale and large-scale farming sectots is likely to be an important element of an effective rural poverty reduction strategy in countries such as Zimbabwe and Kenya.
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  Land policy for pro-poor development: draft

  World Bank, 2002

  This draft paper outlines a strategy for World Bank involvement in land policies. It focuses on property rights to land, land transactions, and socially optimal use of land.
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  Governance for sustainability?: balancing social and environmental concerns in Harare

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2002

  The paper examines urban governance in the framework of sustainable urban development, and agrees with most analyses that sustainable settlements embrace social, ecological and economic dimensions.
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  World Bank and India's economic development

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2003

  In its 50-year partnership with India, the Bank concentrated on the growth objective through subscribing to the trickle down theory. Over the past five years, it has posited its initiatives on a plain of poverty alleviation, to which results are yet to be seen.
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  Regional overview of the impact of failures of accountability on poor people

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2002

  It has been argued that good governance is an integral element in the creation of the enabling environment of peace, security, the rule of law, legitimacy and stability, in which sustainable human development can be promoted.
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  A matter of timing: migration and housing access in metropolitan Johannesburg

  Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2002

  The main findings from this study sheds new light on the dynamics of state control over African urbanisation in Johannesburg and its consequences for social differentiation.It reveals that , in spite of state control to limit African urbanisation, the African population of Johannesburg grew steadily throughout the apartheid period.
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  Assessing participation in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: a desk-based synthesis of experience in sub-Saharan Africa

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002

  How participatory is the process of producing Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs)?
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  Child mortality in Maharashtra, India

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2002

  This article examines official statistics on child mortality rates in Maharashtra, and compares them against an initial set of findings on child and infant mortality that also measured extent and causes of under-reporting of child deaths.

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