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    id21 viewpoint: Biofuels, climate change and GM crops – who is really benefiting?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Governments, oil companies and agribusinesses all support biofuels as a way to combat climate change. Genetic engineering plays an increasing role in biofuel production. Can replacing fossil fuels with biofuels reduce carbon emissions?
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    The Malawi social cash transfer scheme: preliminary lessons learned

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2006
    Evidence from a pilot social cash transfer programme in Malawi indicates that it is a cost-effective, quick way to meet the basic needs of ultra-poor households whose members are unable to work.
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    Malaria in pregnancy: challenges for policy and delivery in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Malaria can be devastating for the health of pregnant women and their unborn children. It is vital that this vulnerable group is provided with effective methods for preventing and treating the disease. Are interventions successfully reaching pregnant women in areas of moderate to intense transmission of malaria in Africa?
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    Monitoring government policies: a toolkit for civil society organisations in Africa

    International Budget Partnership, 2007
    How can civil society organisations monitor government policies? This toolkit, which is directed towards civil society organisations (CSOs) in Africa, explores ways of working for change by monitoring government policies.
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    Managing severe acute malnutrition in children

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Between one and two million children die each year around the world from wasting, or severe acute malnutrition (SAM) due to poverty and poor diet. Nevertheless SAM has been ignored by health programmes and the World Health Organization (WHO) does not recognise the term ‘acute malnutrition’.
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    Government and non-state sector collaboration to reach EFA

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    The Education For All (EFA) agenda and Millennium Development Goals emphasise increasing access to basic education. Non-state providers could possibly contribute to expanding access to education. In what ways do states collaborate with these providers to ensure that poor children are not denied access to education?
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    The effect of education in support of democracy in Malawi

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    It is assumed that education has an important influence on people’s understanding of and support for democracy. The World Bank argues that investment in education is essential for advancing towards democracy and improved governance. Is this the case, however, in newly democratic developing countries with low levels of education?
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    Reclaiming policy space: lessons from Malawi’s fertiliser subsidy programme

    Future Agricultures Consortium, 2007
    This case study argues that political context matters in agricultural development issues using the fertiliser subsidy scheme in Malawi as an example.
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    Politics and the future of ministries of agriculture: rethinking roles and transforming agendas

    Future Agricultures Consortium, 2007
    This paper poses the question: What form should a contemporary African ministry of agriculture take, and show should it function?
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    Cancelling the caps: Why the EFA movement must confront wage bill caps now

    ActionAid International, 2006
    IMF loan criteria are currently threatening the achievement of Education for All, this paper contends. While EFA and MDG initiatives have resulted in a rapid expansion of the numbers of children in education, agreements between 18 developing countries and the IMF that cap the public sector wage bill are preventing the recruitment of new teachers.

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