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    Globalisation and Poverty

    National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2007
    A non-technical summary of a book titled ‘Globalisation and Poverty’ edited by Ann Harrison. It questions whether globalisation spreads wealth. The book concludes that the poor will benefit from globalisation if the appropriate complementary policies and institutions are in place.
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    Managing severe acute malnutrition in children

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Between one and two million children die each year around the world from wasting, or severe acute malnutrition (SAM) due to poverty and poor diet. Nevertheless SAM has been ignored by health programmes and the World Health Organization (WHO) does not recognise the term ‘acute malnutrition’.
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    Research ICT Africa Network

    The Research ICT Africa Network conducts research on ICT policy and regulation that facilitates evidence-based and informed policy making for improved access, use and application of ICT for social dev
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    Leaving Two Thirds Out of Development: Female Headed Households and Common Property Resources in the Highlands of Tigray, Ethiopia

    2006
    Periodic drought, unsustainable livestock populations, land tenure insecurities, land degradation, a prolonged and intense civil war and fragmentation of farms have had severe impacts on the population of the Ethiopian highlands. Increasingly young men have found it harder to obtain land to establish their own farms and homesteads.
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    Education for rural people in Africa

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2006
    This document reports on the presentations and recommendations of a regional seminar to consider education for rural people in Africa.
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    UNICEF Humanitarian Action Report 2007

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2007
    This Humanitarian Action Report 2007 outlines UNICEF’s appeal for children and women in 33 emergencies around the world.
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    Food aid or cash aid? Comparing effects on the Ethiopian economy

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Policymakers, donors and non-governmental organisations have in recent years debated whether it is more effective to provide aid to poor households in the form of food or cash. Most studies have focused on specific aspects of the effects of aid, neglecting the impact on and feedback from different sectors of the economy.
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    Political parties in Africa: challenges for sustained multiparty democracy

    International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance / International IDEA, 2007
    This paper analyses the status of multiparty democracy in Africa, looking particularly at the role of political parties.
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    Asking people what they want or telling them what they need? contrasting a theory of human need with local expressions of goals

    ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2007
    This study uses Quality of Life research to examine the importance respondents have attributed to a variety of goals in two rural communities in Ethiopia.
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    Getting mobile phones beyond the three billion mark

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    In mid-2007, we passed the symbolic mark of three billion mobile phones in use around the world. How did we get here? And how will we reach the next three billion users?

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