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  Things fall apart: collapse of the Nigerian industry

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Nigeria has plentiful natural resources, the largest domestic market in Africa and an abundant and cheap labour force. Why, then, has its industrial performance been so disappointing? What capability factors may explain this? Is there any prospect of increasing Nigeria’s industrial capacity to reverse its slide into industrial marginalisation?
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  Does investing in education reduce poverty? Evidence from Ghana, Uganda and South Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Three broad facts about education have emerged from recent research. Firstly, almost universally education is found to lift people out of poverty. Secondly, when a comparison is made between investing in education and other forms of investment, the returns from investing in education are on average lower.
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  Knowledge flows and knowledge collectives: understanding the role of science and technology policies in development: volume 1: knowledge flows, innovation, and learning in developing countries

  Center for Science, Policy, & Outcomes, 2003

  This report is part one of a two volume set of papers from a number of CSPO scholars and is a project for the Global Inclusion Program of the Rockefeller Foundation.
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  Reaching underserved populations with basic education in deprived areas of Ghana: emerging best practices: section 2: alternative education program profiles

  CARE International, 2003

  As part of the international literature review and national field research, this paper identifies, researches and analyses, the critical component of alternative education programs.Within the paper, the international and national alternative education profiles are grouped (nationally or global) and their environmental context identified (to provide a setting for the programmatic initiatives), p
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  Reaching underserved populations with basic education in deprived areas of Ghana: emerging good practices. Section 1

  CARE International, 2003

  This paper reports on a study which aims to discover what types of complimentary education services have been effective in reaching the under-served in Ghana, especially female, populations in rural deprived areas, and, what complimentary education mechanisms/processes have been the most successful and why?Findings:the Northern regions of Ghana suffer from an acute shortage of teachers
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  Organized labour in the 21st century

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This report presents a representative sample of the comparative research undertaken by the International Institute for Labour Studies on comparative research on “Trade union responses to globalization”. It involves 15 countries namely, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Ghana, India, Israel, Japan, Republic of Korea, Lithuania, Niger, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia and USA.
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  Researching teacher education: new perspectives on practice, performance and policy: multi-site teacher education research project (MUSTER)

  Department for International Development, UK, 2003

  The author conducts an extensive empirical study of different aspects of primary teacher education as it is practised in Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, South Africa (reported on in a separate document) and Trinidad and Tobago.
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  Evidence-based development of health and family planning programs in Bangladesh and Ghana

  Population Council, USA, 2003

  This paper, produced by the Population Council, looks at the role of research in health reform through the example of two country initiatives in Bangladesh and Ghana. Both of these initiatives have used experimental studies to guide the development of community-based health and family planning programmes. The paper details the development of the new programmes.
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  Solving the mystery - identifying cause of death in African adults

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  The majority of deaths occur at home in many developing countries, and accurate information on the causes of death is scarce. This places health planners and policy-makers at a great disadvantage. What is the most accurate and cost-effective way to obtain information about causes of death?
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  Throwing away the primer: the 'real literacies' approach to adult literacy

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  What do we mean by 'illiterate'? Are we being misled by UNESCO rhetoric that literacy is the key to development? What happens when we herd into class individuals who may have nothing in common except for the fact they have been labelled 'illiterate'?

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