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The Political Economy Of International Development And Pro-Poor Livestock Policies: A Comparative Assessment

The Political Economy of Pro-Poor Livestock Policy-making in Ethiopia

Published by: Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative

Who’s involved and in what? Participation in natural resource management institutions and ‘community based tourism enterprises’ in two conservancies in Northwest Namibia

Published by: UNAM

Achieving Schooling for All in Africa: Costs, Commitment and Gender

This is a timely Study when the Millennium Development Goals, adopted by the international community to tackle problems of poverty in developing countries by the year 2015, have identified universal participation and gender equality in primary schooling as major goals.

The Rural Poor, the Private Sector and Markets: Changing Interactions in Southern Africa

Published by: IDS

One of the central tenets of much current development thinking in southern Africa is that market-oriented strategies and private sector involvement must be the basis for future economic growth.

Livelihoods in Crisis? New Perspectives on Governance and Rural Development in Southern Africa

Published by: IDS

Southern Africa is in the midst of a major food crisis. Fourteen million people are reported to be at risk. Most commentators agree that since around 1990, livelihoods have collapsed in many areas, with an increasing number of people, particularly in rural areas, vulnerable.

Understanding Environmental Policy Processes: Cases from Africa

Published by: Earthscan

Drawing on their extensive research in three countries, Keeley and Scoones show how environmental knowledge is constructed by the interplay of politics and science, generating beliefs and policies.

Policy Options in Water-Stressed States: Emerging Lessons from the Middle East and Southern Africa

Published by: African Water Issues Research Unit (AWIRU) and Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

How do states manage water stress? What are the experiences in Southern Africa and the Middle East? How can decision makers be supported...

Africa’s Stalled Development: International Causes and Curses

Published by: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Leonard and Straus, of the University of California at Berkeley, synthesize much recent writing on African political economy into an...