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    Urban-Rural Inequality in Living Standards in Africa

    Poverty, inequality and development research at Cornell University, 2003
    This paper examines the relative importance of rural versus urban areas in terms of monetary poverty and seven other related living standards indicators. The authors present levels of urban-rural differences for several African countries (where data is available) and find that living standards in rural areas lag far behind those in urban areas.
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    The IMF: wrong diagnosis, wrong medicine

    Oxfam, 1999
    Prepared as part of Oxfam International's Education Now campaign, this briefing paper evaluates the International Monetary Fund (IMF), offering information, statistics, case studies and recommendations for change.
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    Where has all the education gone in Africa?: employment outcomes among secondary school and university leavers

    Poverty and Social Policy Team, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, 2003
    This report presents the main findings of an international research project evaluating the further education and employment experiences of secondary school leavers and university graduates in Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Using a standard tracer survey methodology, the study provides data for monitoring and evaluating the impact of educational reforms.
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    Effective drug regulation: a multi-country study

    World Health Organization, 2002
    National medicines policy usually includes activities to ensure the quality, safety and efficacy of all medicines available in the country.
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    Has improved availability of health expenditure data contributed to evidence-based policy making? Country experiences with national health accounts

    Partners for Health Reformplus, 2003
    National Health Accounts (NHA) is a tool designed to inform the health policy process. It aims to do so by providing policymakers with valuable information on the distribution of health funds within the system.
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    Death, data and demographics: AIDS and adult mortality in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Adult mortality is increasing in many parts of Africa. Is this due to AIDS? Can existing data answer this question? What other statistics are needed to document the spread of the AIDS epidemic in Africa?
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    Pro-poor tourism: putting poverty at the heart of mass tourism

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How does tourism affect the lives of the poor and what is the relevance of tourism to the poverty agenda? What are the impacts (positive and negative) and how can they be better understood? What factors encourage or constrain economic participation of the poor in the tourist industry? Can tourism be pro- poor?
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    Catalyst for local democracy? Land reform in Eastern and Southern Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    From Eritrea to South Africa land tenure laws are in a state of flux. In every nation in eastern and southern Africa, apart from those wracked by conflict, tenure reform is either under discussion or coming on stream. What is driving this change? What are the consequences for landholders, for democratization and the nature of state power? Who are the potential winners and losers?
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    Learning and not learning. Community conservation policies in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Since 1990 concepts, policies and practices of wildlife conservation and management in sub-Saharan Africa have shifted towards a community-based approach, part of a global move towards community-based conservation. This trend emphatically counters earlier policies of 'Fortress Conservation' that sought to sequester local people from wildlife.
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    Lost in space: Locating the chronically poor

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    People living in certain areas are often vulnerable to similar risks, increasing their chance of becoming chronically poor. At the same time, in some poor areas not everyone is poor, and not everyone who is poor will remain so for long. Where do ‘pockets of poverty’ exist and why? Under what conditions can they become ‘poverty traps’?

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