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  Understanding and reducing persistent poverty in Africa: introduction to a special issue

  Journal of Development Studies, 2006

  This paper introduces a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies that explores persistent poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. As a set, these papers aim to break new ground in exploring the dynamics of structural poverty. The articles integrate qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis using longitudinal data and country case studies.
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  The importance of human resources management in health care: a global context

  Human Resources for Health, 2006

  This paper, from Human Resources for Health, highlights the importance of human resources management (HRM) in improving overall patient health outcomes and delivery of health care services. The authors demonstrate how HRM is essential to any health care system and how it can improve health care models.
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  Saying one thing and doing another? Donors and reproductive health

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  While donors say they are committed to supporting integrated reproductive health services, evidence suggests that their actions cause programmes to remain as separate vertical programmes. What factors influence how donors operate and what are the implications for reproductive health services?
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  Evidence of returns to schooling in Africa from household surveys: monitoring and restructuring the market for education

  Economic Growth Center, Yale University, 2003

  In the last two decades, many countries in Africa have had difficulty extending primary and secondary schooling to an increasing fraction of their youth, or in building high quality university training and parallel research institutions.
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  Medical bills push people deeper into poverty

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  In some developing countries public health clinics charge patients for medical consultations. These medical fees, together with a loss of earnings due to ill health, have catastrophic consequences for families already living in poverty.
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  Linking farmers to markets

  Agricultural Support Systems Division, FAO, 2006

  This website/page presents a selection of brief case studies of ways in which small-scale farmers in developing countries have linked with markets, through their own efforts and with assistance from others.
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  Using community conservation to achieve the MDGs

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  In many places, globalisation, inappropriate policies and malpractices in government and non-government organisations have resulted in the degradation of many ecosystems. Official conservation policies are often failing to stop this decline. Can community-based conservation efforts achieve better results?
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  Dangling by a thread: how sharp are the Chinese scissors?

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006

  This report examines the impact that China’s booming export industry is having on the textile and furniture exports and jobs in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The report finds that:China’s economic expansion has significant implications for SSA industry and growth by indirectly excluding outward-oriented SSA producers from global markets, and directly it squeezes locally-focused producers
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  Corporate governance: observance of standards and codes

  World Bank, 2006

  As part of the Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC) programme by the World Bank and IMF, this internet resource brings together country by country implementation assessments. The goal of the ROSC initiative is to identify weaknesses that may contribute to a country’s economic and financial vulnerability.
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  Making city growth work for poor people

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Do poor people benefit from urban economic growth and if so, how? Conventional theory suggests that almost everyone should gain from economic growth. Eventually that growth should trickle down even to very poor people. In practice, however, the process has brought mixed results. The relationship between growth and poverty reduction is more complex.

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