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    Land and schooling: transferring wealth across generations

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004
    This article, a summary of the book sharing the same title, examines issues around the allocation of land and education within families.
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    Capacity development in Ghana’s plant genetic resources centre: an evaluation

    Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2003
    This study evaluated capacity development results and processes at the Plant Genetic Resources Centre (PGRC) in Ghana and examined the roles of various external agents in that development, particularly the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) and the Genetic Resources Network for West and Central Africa (GRENEWECA).
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    Globalisation and the developing countries: emerging strategies for rural development and poverty alleviation

    International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2002
    This on-line book reviews the impact of globalisation on a range of issues, including the effects of changing global rules and regulations on the economies of developing countries in general, and their agricultural sectors in particular. The book divides into four main sections, and includes chapters by various authors.Part I: globalisation from the perspective of the South.
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    Ploughing deeper into poverty. Steps needed to boost rural incomes in Ghana after economic reform

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How do poor farmers in Africa survive the effects of economic reform policies? University of Sussex researchers studied patterns of poverty in north eastern Ghana from 1975 to 1989. They report that policymakers should try harder to understand the complex ways in which rural people make a living so that development policies can curb poverty more effectively.
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    Tropical fisheries conflicts: the search for a better understanding

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Most research on natural resource conflicts in general - fisheries conflicts in particular - has focussed on site-specific violent conflict (such as the shrimp wars in Kerala). It is assumed that resource allocation is the primary issue. But is this always the case?
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    Public expenditure for development results and poverty reduction

    Overseas Development Institute, 2003
    Review and case studies of "Results-oriented (or ‘performance’ or ‘output’) budgeting": the planning of public expenditures for the purpose of achieving explicit and defined results. These policies have often been first implemented through sector-wide approaches (SWAps), particularly in health and education.
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    Case study: Environmental Information Network of Ghana

    Bridges.org, 2002
    The bridges.org IICD Case Study Series on ICT-Enabled Development sets out to illustrate how information and communication technology (ICT) contributes to development in Africa.
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    Integrating vertical programmes into sector wide approaches: experiences and lessons

    HLSP Institute, UK, 2001
    Does the transition to sector wide approaches (SWAps) in the health sector risk reducing the impact of previously successful initiatives covered by vertical health programmes?
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    Sector wide programmes and poverty reduction

    Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure, ODI, 2001
    Improving the access to services by poor and marginal groups is a strong or central objective of most of the sector wide programmes reviewed in this working paper.
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    Partnerships with partner organizations in Ghana

    Water Engineering and Development Centre, 1997
    Conference paper examining the Ghanaian experience of providing water through Partner Organisations (POs) after a central government shift from provider to facilitator.

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