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    Learning to compete: African development responses to globalisation

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    At the beginning of the 21st century much of Africa still faces massive challenges to successful economic and social development. But how should African countries respond to the imperatives of globalisation and pro-poor growth?
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    Gender gaps and primary schooling: promising policy options for sub-Saharan Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Belief that investment in girls’ and women’s education will result in broader development gains and poverty reduction has received widespread acceptance internationally. But what can be done to close the primary education gender gap between girls and boys? How can we achieve universal primary education by 2015?
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    Winning ingredient: how can NGOs best achieve their goals?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How do you measure the success of an international campaign? How does a campaign develop over time? And how does it affect people’s lives? A New Economics Foundation report asks these questions in the context of one NGO campaign for breast-feeding in Ghana and another against the use of child labour in the carpet industry in India.
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    Unhappy alliance – does integrated reproductive healthcare work?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What are the best strategies to tackle the spread of HIV and improve women’s reproductive health? Since 1994, the international approach has been to integrate sexually transmitted infection (STI) and HIV services with primary healthcare and family planning programmes. But how successful has this been?
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    Is the end in sight? Trachoma control using community volunteers

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Trachoma is the world’s leading cause of preventable blindness. Oral azithromycin is an effective treatment for active infection, but its use is limited by cost. Ghana has been chosen by the International Trachoma Initiative to receive a donation of azithromycin for trachoma control. What is the best way to distribute this antibiotic?
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    Co-operation or competition? Microfinance developments in Southern Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Microfinance institutions (MFIs) began as community-based savings and credit organisations: working practices were defined by local needs. What has changed? Microfinance now focuses on financial sustainability and some MFIs have become banks - of a sort. Others have developed cooperative linkages with commercial banks. What are the long-term implications of these changes?
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    Water pressure? Politics hinders reform in Ghana

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What is the role of the public sector in sub- Saharan Africa, and how effective is it? Is reform possible where economics clashes with political reality? A University of Birmingham report examines the debate amongst World Bank and IMF economists, focusing on attempted reform of Ghana’s urban water supply.
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    Fruits of the forest. Can tree products help reduce urban poverty?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How can forest products help the urban poor? Can these resources actually support poverty alleviation programmes in urban and peri- urban areas?
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    Living to a ripe old age: can older people contribute?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    People today are living for longer than ever before. Improvements in hygiene, water supply and control of infectious diseases may prolong lives but many older people still live in poverty. What social and economic consequences will this shift in demographic patterns have on society? Little attention is paid to older people, yet what is their real contribution?
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    Friends in high places? An overview of social capital

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Social capital can be split into three connecting strands: bonding social capital (strong ties between immediate family members, neighbours, close friends, and business associates sharing similar demographic characteristics); bridging social capital (weaker ties between people from different ethnic, geographical, and occupational backgrounds but with similar economic status and political influence

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