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Rapid urbanization, and particularly the associated problems of urban poverty, unsustainable development and environmental degradation, pose an enormous challenge to many developing countries. In the last decade more foreign aid has been diverted to urbanization and green city development. This...
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African countries. Thus, any policy initiative targeted towards poverty reduction in Africa should consider the agricultural ….5 per cent, and humanitarian 11.9 per cent. Using secondary data and country-case studies from Africa, the study …
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high priority. Both volume and share of aid earmarked for agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa not only remained low, around …
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The experience and lessons of the last two decades have shown that ignoring the key differences between the economics of peace and the economics of development has been a major reason why countries relapse into conflict. This paper briefly analyses such differences and their important...
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A primarily developing continent Asia is witnessing robust growth in urbanization. Urbanization has come with several … even in the same country. Hitherto, Africa has remained main focus of study of disease but with galloping growth and … urbanization, Asia demands a greater attention in formulation and implementation of policies to check AIDS at a relatively lower …
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As countries implement social assistance (or safety net) programs, a range of technicalhurdles can affect their implementation differently in rural and urban areas. In urban areas,the focus of this study, cost of living can be higher and more prone to economic slowdowns.Poverty can be more...
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