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  Asking questions: how healthy are African school children?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  More attention needs to be paid to the health of school-age children in sub-Saharan Africa, and their sense of well-being. The use of questionnaires in schools can help teachers and health care workers identify and assess common health problems.
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  Sub regional project on eradicating child domestic work and child trafficking in west and central Africa

  Anti-Slavery International, 2003

  Anti- Slavery International set up a network of child rights organisations in six West and Central African countries, Bénin, Burkina Faso, Gabon, Ghana, Niger and Togo, in order to work together for the eradication of abusive forms of work and the worst forms of child labour.
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  Poverty and gender: the limits of microfinance

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Credit and savings schemes are hailed as blueprints for tackling poverty but their benefits are exaggerated. They fail to address the way gender effects relations of power and inequality within families. Frequently unsustainable, they seldom manage to cover their running costs.
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  Report of the South-South dialogue on defence transformation

  SSRonline, 2003

  This report summarises the findings and experiences of a conference that took place in Accra, Ghana, between the 27th and the 30th of May 2003. The objective of the conference was to promote the debate about defense transformation in the context of Ghana, inject local content and transparency, and enhance Ghana’s ability to gain ownership of the process.
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  Investigating chronic poverty in West Africa

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003

  Looks at poverty and chronic poverty dynamics in West Africa. Through participatory assessments of various West Africa countries, the study reveals the multidimensionality of poverty and explains why it is that poverty can persist over extended periods of time.
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  The IMF: wrong diagnosis, wrong medicine

  Oxfam, 1999

  Prepared as part of Oxfam International's Education Now campaign, this briefing paper evaluates the International Monetary Fund (IMF), offering information, statistics, case studies and recommendations for change.
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  Realignment of debt service obligations and ability to pay in concessional lending: feasibility and modalities

  HIPC Progress to Date, World Bank, 2003

  This paper studies schemes which have the potential to increase the flexibility of heavily indebted primary producing countries in meeting their debt service obligations by making debt service repayments contingent on the world prices of the commodities they export.
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  Unsafe schools: a literature review of school-related gender-based violence in developing countries

  US Agency for International Development, 2003

  In an attempt to counter the lack of systemic information on the prevalence and consequences of violence in formal educational settings, this report reviews a number of country-specific studies on school-related gender-based violence.
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  African media and ICT4D: documentary evidence

  African Information Society Initiative, 2003

  This study is aimed at encouraging journalism and coverage of ICTs and Information Society issues.
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  Institutions, mobility and resilience in the Fante migratory fisheries of West Africa

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2001

  This paper looks at migratory fishery networks in Ghana. The Fante fisheries is a spatially extensive but institutionally efficient migratory production system. It is an extremely flexible in its utilisation of resources, which is well adapted to the West African biological, economic and political environment.

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