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  The curse of remoteness: why some African households fail to benefit from economic growth

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Economic growth in some African countries has improved the well-being of the poorest. However, in remote areas poverty remains entrenched. New research argues that Africa’s economic growth will not be translated into poverty reduction until the poor are given better access to markets and to basic infrastructure, such as roads.
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  Explaining African economic growth performance: the case of Ghana

  Global Development Network, 2002

  With positive economic growth since the mid 1980s, Ghana has regularly been put forward as a showcase of success in Africa. What accounts for this growth? This paper examines Ghana’s growth record and the macroeconomic policies that produced this growth.The authors review Ghana’s economic performance and note that Ghana’s overall growth record has one of unevenness.
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  Mapping of sector wide approaches in health

  HLSP Institute, UK, 2003

  The purpose of this report commissioned for SIDA is to give an up to date picture of the status of Sector Wide Approaches (SWAps) in the health sector in the following countries: Ghana, Tanzania, Mozambique, Senegal, Bangladesh, Zambia, Mali, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, and Malawi.
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  Adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Ghana: a synthesis of research evidence

  Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2004

  This report, published by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, documents current knowledge on adolescent sexual and reproductive health issues in Ghana, with a focus on HIV prevention. Findings show that progress towards key national policy goals, such as behaviour change to reduce risk of HIV infection, cannot be adequately assessed with the available data.
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  Verbal autopsy

  World Health Organization, 2003

  This review from the World Health Organization (WHO) looks at the use of verbal autopsy interviews to identify which women die from pregnancy-related causes and why. Verbal autopsy is a technique whereby surviving family members or other informants are interviewed to elicit the deceased’s cause of death.
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  Culture matters: working with communities and faith-based organizations: case studies from country programmes

  United Nations Population Fund, 2004

  This paper reports on efforts by UNFPA’s to develop culturally sensitive programming in the area of gender equity and equality, and reproductive health and rights.
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  Information technologies and education for the poor in Africa (ITEPA): recommendations for a pro-poor ICT4D non-formal education policy

  Imfundo, 2004

  Examines the ways in which ICTs can improve the skills of Africa’s young people and adults who do not have basic literacy skills and/or have not completed primary or secondary school.The report looks at: moving towards pro-poor ICT-based sustainable development modelswhy local content is central to African ICT4Dhow informational needs are critical both for individual development
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  Conflicts, rural development and food security in West Africa

  Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2004

  This paper examines food security in the context of conflict in West Africa, examining the relationship between the two.
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  Teacher training: essential for school-based reproductive health and HIV/AIDS education: focus on sub-saharan Africa

  YouthNet, Family Health International, 2004

  For teaching information and skills related to HIV/AIDS, teacher training is essential, and complex. In sub-Saharan Africa, up to half of all new HIV infections are occurring among youth under age 25. Since most youth attend school at least for primary education, school-based programmes are a logical place to reach young people.
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  Robust multidimensional spatial poverty comparisons in Ghana, Madagascar, and Uganda

  Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program, Cornell University, 2003

  This study undertakes a comparative statistical study of poverty in rural versus urban areas in Uganda, Madagascar and Ghana, based on national survey data.The study uses bivariate stochastic dominance techniques to investigate the incidence of poverty, measured in terms of household expenditures per capita and child height-for-age indicators.

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