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  Dogmatic development: privatisation and conditionalities in six countries

  War on Want, 2004

  The report examines how conditionalities and pressures from aid agencies and development banks force developing countries to adopt privatisation policies in public services.
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  Projects – no way to deliver development?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  The conventional project based approach is a tried-and-tested, convenient and simple mechanism for the transfer of aid resources. However, development practitioners are increasingly realising that implementing a project is not an effective way to address the needs of poor people.
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  AIDS activism – new opportunities for citizenship in South Africa?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Post-apartheid South Africa has witnessed the growth of social movements using on-the-ground and network-based modes of organisation that operate at the same time in local, national and global political environments. Networks across countries and grassroots mobilisation have allowed HIV/AIDS activists to use tactics confronting the state while supporting it to be more inclusive.
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  Methodological innovations in research on the dynamics of poverty: a mixed-method longitudinal study in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

  Conference: Q-Squared in Practice: Experiences of Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Poverty Appraisal, May 2004, 2004

  This technical paper examines the methodology used in the qualitative component of a longitudinal study of poverty dynamics in rural and urban areas of KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa.
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  Fitting the pieces together: a composite view of government’s strategy to assist the unemployed in South Africa 1994 - 2004

  Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2004

  The objective of this paper is to construct an overview of the South African government’s strategy to assist the unemployed and to examine what shifts and changes this strategy reveals over time.
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  Teachers as community leaders: the potential impact ofteacher migration on Education for All and Millennium Development Goals

  Centre for Comparative Education Research, University of Nottingham, 2004

  This paper highlights the importance of the role of teachers in developing countries not only as educational leaders, but also in recognising their contribution to wider community and national development. The paper argues that the migration of teachers is an underemphasised aspect of globalisation, and potentially hinders the international goals of education for all and its wider impacts.
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  How did David prepare to talk to Goliath? South Africa's experience of trade negotiations with the EU

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2004

  This paper analyses the experience of South Africa in pursuing a development-focused trade strategy, and successfully mobilising its limited capacity to conduct negotiations on a free trade agreement with the EU. The paper argues that lessons from this experience are useful to many developing countries who struggle to negotiate development-friendly trade regimes.
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  Scaling up girls education: towards a scorecard on girls' education in the Commonwealth

  Institute of Education, University of London, 2004

  This paper presents a suggested methodology for developing a scorecard on girls' access to and retention in formal primary schooling in Commonwealth countries in Africa.
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  The currency premium and local-currency denominated debt costs in South Africa

  OECD Development Centre, 2004

  This paper aims at identifying the determinants of South African currency premia, which usually form an important element of debt cost in developing countries, in order to assess the scope of South African economic policies for narrowing the spread on local-currency denominated debt.The paper argues that South Africa is one among very few emerging economies able to borrow long-term domestically
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  South Africa and global apartheid: continental and international policies and politics

  Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2003

  This paper analyses the phenomenon of "global apartheid", an international system of minority rule whose attributes include differential access to basic human rights, wealth and power, from an African and South African perspective, and discusses possible alternative measures to fight against it.The paper argues that the main causes of "global apartheid" can be found in the right-wing neoliberal

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