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    Rights talk and rights practice: challenges for Southern Africa

    Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003
    This research in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe looks at the practice of rights claiming on the ground, in the context of 'legal pluralism' and complex, politicised institutional settings. In the southern African context rights are formulated and claimed in a very unlevel playing field and are highly contested.
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    Targeting poverty through community-based public works programs: a cross-disciplinary assessment of recent experience in South Africa

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001
    This paper examines the performance of seven programs in Western Cape Province at involving community participation and at targeting the poor and women.
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    Tenure, diversity, and commitment: community participation for urban service provision

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2002
    This paper examines factors influencing a household’s willingness to participate in community based service provision programs.
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    Democracy in Nigeria: continuing dialogue(s) for nation-building

    International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance / International IDEA, 2000
    This assessment report entitled is the product of an elaborate consultative process conducted by 42 Nigerian resource persons and contains concrete recommendations to strengthen the process towards establishing lasting democracy in Nigeria.
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    Agricultural biotechnology, poverty reduction, and food security

    Asian Development Bank Institute, 2001
    This working paper from the Asian Development Bank examines the risks and benefits of biotechnology in relation to human health, the environment, and Agriculture.
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    Local governance for poverty reduction in Africa

    Global March Against Child Labour, 2002
    Concept paper for the Fifth Africa Governance Forum Maputo, Mozambique, 23-25 May 2002The paper argues for decentralization as an important first step in creating regular, predictable opportunities for citizen-state interaction, despite its limited application and success record in Africa.
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    Workers in transition

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    The outlook is bright for transition economies that are fully embracing market based reform, including appropriate, coherently applied labor policies. In other transition economies, a mix of paternalism and populism could produce partial, timid reform that makes them increasingly unproductive and corrupt.
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    Concessions of busways to the private sector : the Sao Paulo Metropolitan Region experience

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    A pioneer project in Sao Paulo, Brazil (and in the world) demonstrates that private companies are ready to go deeper into public transport than they have gone before.
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    Essentials for sustainable urban transport in Brazil's large metropolitan areas

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    Four pillars for sound development and longterm sustainability of the urban transport sector in large metropolitan areas.Before financing major urban transport projects, decisionmakers should attempt to put in place the basic elements for long-term sustainability of the sector.
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    Economic Regulation of Water Companies

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    The key to effective regulation of water companies is to generate information that allows the regulator to make good rules and allows the interest groups to watch out for improprieties by the regulator.Both public and private water companies need regulation (of water price and quality) when real competition is not feasible.

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