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  African Economic Outlook 2003/2004

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004

  The third edition of the African Economic Outlook assesses recent economic changes and likely evolutions and challenges on the continent.
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  Child justice in Africa: a guide to good practice

  Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2004

  [File size 97910Kb] This manual presents innovative examples of applied local practices of child justice in Africa. The topics mainly relate to programme delivery, to the expansion of services to children and to integrating human rights practice in criminal justice processes. The manual is aimed at policy makers and non-governmental organizations.
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  Impoverishing a continent: the World Bank and the IMF in Africa

  Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2004

  This paper critically assess IMF and World Bank policies of the last decades. In doing so the paper highlights the dominance of the U.S. within the IMF and World Bank.
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  Secondary education – a tool for national development in Ghana. A critical appraisal of the post-colonial context

  Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa, 2003

  This paper argues that previous research on the contribution of education to development in Ghana has paid insufficient attention to the contribution of secondary, as opposed to primary and tertiary, education, and attempts to address this shortcoming.
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  Democratic transition in Anglophone West Africa

  Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa, 2003

  This monograph outlines some of the changes in Anglophone West Africa (Ghana, Nigeria, the Gambia, Sierra Leone and Liberia) during the past decade in order to examine the process of democratic transition. It particularly focuses on Ghana as a model of an authoritarian militarised state becoming a legitimate democracy.
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  Girl child labour in agriculture, domestic work and sexual exploitation: rapid assessments on the cases of the Philippines, Ghana and Ecuador (vol. 1)

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2004

  This study analyses the situation of girl child labour in three areas: agriculture, domestic work and sexual exploitation.
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  Girl child labour in agriculture, domestic work and sexual exploitation: a comparative analysis, cases of Ghana, Ecuador, Philippines (vol. 2)

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2004

  This study is a comparative analysis of gender sensitive assessments undertaken in the Ghana, Ecuador and the Philippines focusing on agriculture, domestic labour and prostitution. It analyses underlying factors of gender disparities in child labour and the consequences of those differences.
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  Global child labour data review: a gender perspective (vol. 3)

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2004

  This report provides an analysis of child labour disaggregated by sex. It reviews existing child labour data, specifically from a gender perspective, and provides a detailed review of and comparison between six countries, Ecuador, Ghana, the Philippines, Dominican Republic, South Africa and Turkey to look at general trends in child labour and sex differentials.
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  Donors and childhood poverty in sub Saharan Africa: approaches and aid mechanisms in Ghana and Tanzania

  Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004

  This paper study examines how selected donors approach poverty affecting children, and how they use aid to tackle child poverty through support to particular activities and through the aid instruments.
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  Exporting from manufacturing firms in Sub-Saharan Africa: Micro evidence for macro outcomes

  Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2004

  This paper draws on micro evidence of manufacturing firms in five African countries - Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania, South Africa and Nigeria - to investigate the causes of poor exporting performance. In light of research on the relationship between efficiency and exporting, this paper suggests:that firm size is a good indicator of the decision to export.

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