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  Street trading to reduce poverty

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Millions of hawkers and vendors earn their living in the streets of developing countries. The mechanisms by which they access public spaces and their relations with municipal authorities remain poorly understood. Policies are needed to maximise the economic, social and environmental potential of public space to support their efforts.
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  Private sector options to increase access to medicines for child health

  Management Sciences for Health, 2004

  This report, from Rational Pharmaceutical Management (RPM) Plus, examines a number of innovative field interventions to increase access to medicines for child health through the private sector in Tanzania. The first part of the report details a number of programmes and interventions that are currently in operation in Tanzania.
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  Food security information systems supported by Save the Children UK

  Save the Children Fund, 2005

  This document discusses a strengthening of livelihoods-based Food Security Information Systems (FSIS) within governments, UN agencies and other institutions.
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  Foreign investment and economic development: evidence from private firms in East Africa

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2005

  This briefing paper takes the view that foreign direct investment (FDI) can play an important role in developing countries. At the macroeconomic level, it brings new capital for investment, contributing to the balance of payments, and potentially adding to future economic growth.
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  Shortcomings of linkages between environmental conservation initiatives and poverty alleviation in Tanzania

  Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2003

  There are few studies on poverty and the environment that have addressed the question of how measures geared towards solving environmental degradation can also be used as a means of combating poverty. This paper is a survey of conservation initiatives and interventions that can be used as entry points for addressing issues of poverty alleviation in Tanzania.
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  Fighting malaria in urban Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Africa already has 40 cities with more than one million inhabitants. By the year 2025 over 800 million Africans will live in urban areas. Meeting the health needs of these growing cities is becoming increasingly urgent. Malaria is a major emerging problem that must be tackled.
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  Quality of life and quality of food

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Sweet potatoes are an important food crop in many parts of Africa. However, they perish easily and problems with in-ground storage methods can mean sweet potatoes are only available in certain seasons, often with large changes in prices. Economic returns and food security could be improved through improving farmers’ knowledge of crop storage and handling methods.
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  Sugar industries in least developed countries: profiting from ‘Everything but Arms’

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Guaranteed high prices are increasing sugar production in many of the world’s least developed countries. The possibility of duty and quota free access to European markets in 2009 is attracting foreign investment. Proactive governments are now needed to maximise the opportunities that the ‘Everything but Arms’ (EBA) initiative brings.
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  Can leprosy be eliminated by a single global campaign?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  In 1991 the World Health Assembly set a target to eliminate leprosy by the year 2000. The disease, which still caries a stigma, damages the skin and nerve endings and leads to ulcers and disability. A major World Health Organisation campaign has provided antibiotics to treat the disease in a number of countries. However a number of new cases have appeared in previously low priority countries.
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  Cut out the waste says WaterAid report

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  The Decade for Water in the 1980s failed to secure water and sanitation for all. Today the performance of the water sector remains grossly inadequate: more than a billion people have no access to safe water and 2.6 billion have inadequate sanitation. This failure undermines development, and denies people a basic human right.

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