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This book constitutes one of the main outputs of the School Fee Abolition Initiative (SFAI). The initiative, launched in 2005 by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Bank, was designed to support countries in maintaining and accelerating progress toward universal primary...
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paper exploits this feature of the data for Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania. The analysis yields two … surprising findings about the dynamics of the HIV/AIDS epidemic which have important implications for policy. First, at least two …
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female genital mutilation are often associated with sexual behaviors, practices, and knowledge related to AIDS. This might …
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populations) with HIV prevention efforts', with an ultimate goal of helping Kenya make more effective HIV/AIDS-related decisions … ongoing efforts to understand the epidemic and response in Kenya and thus help the country improve the scope (doing the right … directed. This study describes the epidemiology of HIV in Kenya over time: trends in HIV prevalence and incidence, magnitude …
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In October 1991 Zambia moved to a multiparty democratic system. In the following years, the government implemented a … worsened. There are however, hopeful signs that increased growth and poverty reduction are within reach in Zambia. The country … copper prices were not the only reasons Zambia's economic performance declined between 1991 and 2002. Excluding the one …
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This assessment of Zambia's investment climate highlights some of the impediments to growth and export diversification … collected for the purpose, namely, the World Bank's Zambia Enterprise Survey of 2008. The report is in two volumes. Volume I is …
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At the heart of the growth problem, the persistence of poverty, and issues of policy reform in Zambia is the public …) strategic priority setting (the allocation problem); and 3) efficient public-service delivery (the execution problem). Zambia … are vital to the success of Zambia's public sector reform program. All three areas, particularly the allocation and …
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The Government of the Republic of Zambia aims to transform the economy to support economic growth and facilitate job …. Zambia has a long history of import and export restrictions of agricultural commodities, maize in particular. This analytical … work demonstrates that Zambia has lot to gain from committing to open agricultural trade. Partial equilibrium modelling …
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