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  Water, sanitation and hygiene: primary concerns for public health

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  The health benefits of clean drinking water, sanitation facilities and hygienic practices, like hand washing, are well known. But health is rarely the primary motivation for developing water and sanitation facilities, nor is it the health sector that usually pays for them. What are the real costs and benefits for human health of providing these services?
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  Informal remittance systems in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries

  The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford, 2005

  This study presents a synthesis of knowledge about informal remittances to African, Caribbean and Pacific countries, and their influence on development in those countries.
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  Coming to terms with sexual harassment in Ghana

  Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana, 2004

  Scholars and the general public have not paid much attention to non-rape forms of sex discrimination, such as sexual harassment. The concept is seen to suffer from ambiguity, and is often confused with courting or playful flirting. When it finally did receive attention sexual harassment was seen almost exclusively as a workplace phenomenon.
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  Bringing equality home: promoting and protecting the inheritance rights of women

  Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, 2004

  In this report, the COHRE Women and Housing Rights Programme (WHRP) documents the fact that under both statutory and customary law, the overwhelming majority of women in sub-Saharan Africa (regardless of their marital status) cannot own or inherit land, housing and other property in their own right.
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  Searching for policies that work for forests and people

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Deciding how to manage forests is not a simple matter. Policies affecting forests are formed in many different sectors at the same time. Political and economic realities – from pressures for local control to the globalisation of markets – strongly influence how people behave towards forests. If policies are to work for forests and people, they must engage with these realities.
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  The politics of service delivery reform

  Development and Change Journal, 2004

  This article, published in Development and Change, identifies the leaders, supporters and resisters of public service reform, drawing principally on research from Ghana, Zimbabwe, India and Sri Lanka. It finds that reform was often constrained by a lack of political commitment and by the interests embedded in existing organisational arrangements.
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  For richer or poorer: transforming economic partnerships between Europe and Africa

  Christian Aid, 2005

  This report assesses the free trade agreements which are negotiated between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.
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  The damage done: aid, death and dogma

  Christian Aid, 2005

  This briefing paper challenges the entrenched assumption that developing countries can only work their way out of poverty through radical economic liberalisation, calling for an end to aid conditional on such policies.
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  Farmers and plant breeders: an essential partnership for poverty reduction

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Farmers understand seeds and crop varieties, knowing how and when to use them. They are often willing to try out new varieties, but often plant breeding systems and the new seeds they produce do not reach farmers. In particular, resource-poor farmers in marginal areas rarely benefit from new high-yielding varieties.
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  Do migrant remittances minimize the impact of macro-volatility on the poor in Ghana?

  International Monetary Fund, 2004

  This paper investigates whether migrant remittances have been a source of income smoothing in Ghana, particularly in times of macro-volatility.The main findings include:migrant remittances are counter-cyclical in Ghana: inflows of remittances increase in times of economic shocksremittances significantly affect household welfare and therefore tend to reduce any economic shock that af

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