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    Improving provider performance: innovative strategies in Bangladesh, India and Nigeria

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Poor quality and high costs are associated with the informal provision of health care. This has led to a search for innovative strategies to improve performance. New research on interventions in Bangladesh, India and Nigeria provides learning about different ways to achieve this goal.
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    Making health markets work for poor people

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    In many countries people use a wide variety of market based providers of health-related goods and services ranging from highly organised and regulated hospitals and specialist doctors to informal health workers and drug sellers operating outside the legal framework. A large share of encounters with health workers and suppliers of pharmaceuticals involves a cash payment.
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    Causes and cures of oil-related Niger Delta conflicts

    Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2009
    This paper details the root causes and possible solutions to the insecurity raging in Nigeria's Niger Delta. The Delta is the world’s third largest wetland and contains nearly all of the country's oil and gas reserves. It is, therefore, vital to Nigeria’s fiscal viability and global energy security.
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    Malaria treatment in Nigeria: the role of patent medicine vendors

    Future Health Systems research consortium, 2008
    Malaria is a major cause of illness and death in Nigeria. It is also a significant drain on its economy and a major financial burden to the poor. This scoping study by Future Health Systems provides a quick assessment of the malaria treatment markets and the role played by patent medicine vendors in Nigeria, and offers ways to improve the regulation and provision of anti-malarial drugs.
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    Health markets and future health systems: innovation for equity

    Global Forum for Health Research, 2009
    The spread of market relationships has advanced so far in many countries that official policies often have limited relevance to the realities that poor people face when coping with health problems. This article in the Global Forum for Heath Update proposes an approach which explores the operation of health markets in order to help explain how health systems are changing.
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    Votes and violence: evidence from a field experiment in Nigeria

    Households in Conflict Network, 2008
    Although many African states made the transition from autocracy to democracy, the shift has not been an easy one. Recent elections in Zimababwe, Kenya and Nigeria have exposed vote-buying, ballot fraud and highly-publicised election violence.
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    Power-sharing and conflict in Nigeria: power-sharing agreements, negotiations and peace processes

    International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2007
    The aim of this report is to assess the nature and impact of the power-sharing system that have emerged in Nigeria over the past 50 years.
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    A public health crisis as stocks of medicinal plants start to decline

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    An estimated 80 percent of people in developing countries rely on traditional plant-based medicines. Medicinal plants are also vital for producing many important pharmaceutical drugs around the world. However, unsustainable harvesting of the most popular wild plants is depleting stocks and putting public health at risk.
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    Agriculture in urban planning: generating livelihoods and food security

    International Development Research Centre, 2009
    This report, by researchers working in urban agriculture (UA), examines concrete strategies to integrate city farming into the urban landscape. Drawing on original field work in cities across the rapidly urbanising global South, the book examines the contribution of UA and city farming to livelihoods and food security.
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    Learning to Live Positively: a key development tool for promoting “treatment preparedness” amongst HIV/AIDS-affected rural communities in Africa

    2009
    Community learning processes are crucial to increasing resilience to HIV/AIDS in Africa’s remote rural areas.

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