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  Providing practical estimates of malaria burden for health planners in resource poor communities

  American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2004

  This article, published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, examines estimates of malaria burden in resource poor settings, and asks whether data collected from the formal health sector provides an accurate picture of malaria morbidity.
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  Socioeconomic inequalities in child mortality: comparisons across nine developing countries

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2000

  This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, generates and analyses survey data on inequalities in child mortality in Brazil, Côte D’Ivoire, Ghana, Nepal, Nicaragua, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Africa and Viet Nam.
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  The impact of HIV/AIDS on teachers and other education personnel in West and Central Africa: a synthesis of the literature from 2000 to 2004

  HIV/AIDS Impact on Education Clearinghouse, 2004

  This paper examines the literature on how HIV/AIDS has impacted teachers and other education personnel in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d`Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria and Senegal.
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  Persistent poverty in upper east Ghana

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004

  This policy brief explores the nature of the poverty and the kinds of poverty traps faced by rural households in the Tempane-Gagbiri region of Upper East Ghana. It is based on quantitative and qualitative data gathered in 1975 and 1989.
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  Unofficial cross-border trade: globalisation in west Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Economic restructuring has encouraged an expansion of West Africa’s unofficial cross-border trade in consumer goods from world markets. Far from integrating West Africa into the global economy, however, unofficial trade reinforces the region’s economic marginalisation by depriving states of revenue from duties and taxes and doing little to promote trade in local products.
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  Are wealth transfers biased against girls?: Gender differences in land inheritance and schooling investment in Ghana's western region

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This study attempts to analyse changing patterns of land transfers and schooling investments by gender over three generations in customary land areas of Ghana's Western Region.The authors find: that although traditional matrilineal inheritance rules deny landownership rights to women, women have increasingly acquired land through gifts and other means, thereby reducing the gender gap in
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  Are wealth transfers biased against girls?: Gender differences in land inheritance and schooling investment in Ghana's western region

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This study attempts to analyse changing patterns of land transfer and ownership, as well as school investments by gender over three generations in customary land areas of Ghana's Western Region. Traditional inheritance rules deny land ownership rights to women.
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  The bushmeat commodity chain: patterns of trade and sustainability in a mature urban market in west Africa

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This report explores the social, economic and biological dimensions of the bushmeat trade in west Africa.
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  The key to Kimberley: internal diamond controls, seven case studies

  Global Witness, 2004

  The paper offers seven country case studies on internal controls under the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme (KPCS).
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  Survival and success among African manufacturing firms

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2004

  This paper examines why African economies have remained largely unsuccessful despite competition-enhancing economic reforms. In this paper, the authors consider the roles of learning, competition and market imperfections in determining three aspects of firm performance, namely firm exit, firm growth and productivity growth.

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