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  Radioactive Revenues: Financial Flows between Uranium Mining Companies and African Governments

  Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2011

  For African countries, the revenue derived from the uranium mining operations of multinational corporations is despite the high price of uranium minimal, uncertain and volatile. The financial agreements that these countries make with the uranium producers regarding their share in the profits are the primary reason for this state of affairs.
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  What can African governments do about failed ‘globalisation?’

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008

  Globalisation in Africa has failed. Not because, as is traditionally argued, African governments haven’t adopted the right structural adjustment policies (SAPs), or because their effects take time to show. Structural adjustment has failed because the policies have sidestepped the developmental needs of Africa.
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  Time to change the exchange-rate in Malawi?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Currency exchange-rates have not played a large part in development policy since the introduction of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Process. This is the case in Malawi, which has undergone major economic reform in the last two decades. But slow growth in Malawi means the exchange-rate is back on the agenda.
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  Is cash the best way to assist poor and vulnerable people?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  In the face of chronic poverty, food insecurity and increasing HIV and AIDS in eastern and southern Africa, there is growing recognition of the importance of cash transfers for reaching vulnerable children and households. A variety of cash transfer schemes are being piloted. Should they be scaled-up?
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  Has financial liberalisation brought economic growth for southern Africa?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Most countries belonging to the Southern African Development Community have a history of repressive financial organisation, involving distorting financial markets by fixing interest rates below market levels and controlling the distribution of credit. Since the early 1990s these countries have gradually liberalised their financial systems.
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  HIV/AIDS and children’s migration: a training manual for community workers

  Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Brunel University, 2004

  This manual for community workers aims to help families and communities make informed decisions regarding children’s migration as a result of HIV/AIDS and to provide support.
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  Child labour in the tea sector in Malawi: a pilot study

  Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway, 2003

  This report provides an overview of exisiting knowledge of child labour practices in the Malawi tea sector and explores the needs and priorities for further research.The findings of the paper include:there is clear evidence that child labour does exist in the tea sector in Malawi, contrary to the opinion of the Tea Association of Malawi and the most dominant tea sector owner in Malawi
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  Poverty and gender: the limits of microfinance

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Credit and savings schemes are hailed as blueprints for tackling poverty but their benefits are exaggerated. They fail to address the way gender effects relations of power and inequality within families. Frequently unsustainable, they seldom manage to cover their running costs.
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  Agricultural commercialization, rural economy and household livlihoods 1990-1997 [ in Malawi]

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1999

  This paper details the processes of agricultural commercialisation, income strategies and food security among smallholder families in the Zomba district of Southern Malawi over a period between 1986 and 1997.