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This discussion paper: a) proposes a new approach of targeted collaboration among different sectors; b) devises new tools or enhances existing ones to facilitate the contributions of different sectors to help relieve health problems; and c) puts theory into practice through a pilot in Ghana. The...
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This paper summarizes the World Bank assistance strategy for rural development in the ECA region. The rural sector includes the people; economic; development activities; institutional, economic, and social infrastructure; and natural resources in rural areas and is thus not confined to agriculture....
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Conserving biodiversity faces complex problems when the natural resources from the land also provide income and … substance to its local inhabitants. Finding a balance between biodiversity conservation and the socio-economic development of a …
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Groudwater is of major importance in providing mains water supply, and is intensively exploited for private, domestic, and industrial use in many urban centers of the developing world. At the same time, the subsurface has come to serve as the receptor for much urban and industrial wastewater and...
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of the World Bank, examines the promise and challenge of infrastructure privatization in Sub-Saharan Africa, with …This paper, prepared by the Private Sector Development Department at the initiative of the Africa Technical Department …
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(hydromet) and early warning services (EWS) in Sub-Saharan Africa within the current landscape of the Africa Regional Weather …
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countries. According to "Healthy Partnerships: How Governments Can Engage the Private Sector to Improve Health in Africa" (2010 …), the private sector share of total health expenditure in Sub-Saharan Africa is on average 51 percent. Use of the private … health sector in Africa is particularly strong among groups that policymakers most want to reach, including the poor, women …
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Water resources in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have become a strategic commodity, with supply limited in terms of quantity …
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