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  Food for thought: are West Africa’s family farms worth saving?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Is neo-liberalism widening the differences between West African family farmers and agribusiness enterprises? Should regional agricultural policies focus solely on increasing production or should we value agriculture’s role in the management of natural resources and the provision of employment?
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  Capacity development in Ghana’s plant genetic resources centre: an evaluation

  Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2003

  This study evaluated capacity development results and processes at the Plant Genetic Resources Centre (PGRC) in Ghana and examined the roles of various external agents in that development, particularly the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) and the Genetic Resources Network for West and Central Africa (GRENEWECA).
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  Migration, return and socio-economic change in West Africa: the role of family

  Sussex Centre for Migration Research, 2003

  This paper seeks to analyse the influence of migrants’ families on return and the transfer of financial, human and social capital by West African migrants who have lived in Europe and North America. The paper argues that families play an important role in return migration, remittances, and aspects of human, social and financial capital acquisition and investment.
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  Do African manufacturing firms learn from exporting?

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2002

  This paper examines two explanations for the positive association between export-participation status and productivity: self-selection of the relatively more efficient plants into exporting learning by exporting. It uses panel data on manufacturing firms in four African countries: Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya and Zimbabwe.It finds:consistent with the learning-by-exporting
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  Reforming public expenditure management: an unachievable aspiration for poor nations?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  What are the links between public expenditure and poverty reduction? Can the successes of OECD countries in achieving better performance in public expenditure programmes be transferred to developing countries? Is it premature to expect governments in the South to handle performance-oriented approaches to expenditure management?
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  Willingness to pay increased prices for reproductive health products and services in Ghana

  The Commercial Market Strategies project, 2003

  This paper demonstrates that limited government and donor resources, as well as the need to serve ever-increasing reproductive health (RH) needs, dictate that the partners for reproductive health in Ghana, the Ministry of Health, Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana, and the Ghana Social Marketing Foundation, find new ways to increase sustainability and expand financial resources.The paper a
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  Health financing in Ghana: willingness to pay for normal delivery benefits in a community-based health insurance plan

  The Commercial Market Strategies project, 2002

  CMS and RI conducted a survey to determine whether women are willing to pay an increased health premium to cover the cost of an expanded benefits package for normal delivery, which would include birth attendants and improved medical facilities.The research team interviewed both current enrollees to determine whether they would drop out and those who are not enrolled to determine whether they wo
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  Risk sharing in labour markets

  Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2003

  This paper challenges the traditional view that rent sharing explains the correlation in cross-sections between wages and profitability. In contrast, this paper argues that risk sharing between workers and employers explains much of this relationship.
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  Globalisation and the developing countries: emerging strategies for rural development and poverty alleviation

  International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2002

  This on-line book reviews the impact of globalisation on a range of issues, including the effects of changing global rules and regulations on the economies of developing countries in general, and their agricultural sectors in particular. The book divides into four main sections, and includes chapters by various authors.Part I: globalisation from the perspective of the South.
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  Adolescent sexual and reproductive health behaviour in Dodowa, Ghana

  Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2003

  This report presents findings from a study of sexual and reproductive health status of in-school and out-of-school adolescents in Dodowa, Ghana, carried out in 2001. The research aim was to help design a program to address adolescents’ unmet needs and promote safer behaviours.

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