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1 November 2008
Published by: IDS
Across the hardest-hit countries of sub-Saharan Africa the HIV/AIDS epidemic is causing immense distress and impoverishment to children. In this region alone, some 12 million are estimated to have lost one or both parents to the disease, but this headline figure misrepresents and understates the magnitude of the problem.
1 March 2008
Published by: IDS
Aid effectiveness has long been disputed, after decades of inconclusive macroeconomic analysis. Now there is a growing body of evidence from detailed, field level, microeconomic impact evaluations. The articles in this IDS Bulletin show how the design of these studies increasingly address the various sources of bias for which previous projects were criticised.
1 January 2006
Paper prepared for the United Nations System in the Republic of Zambia
1 September 2005
Published by: IDS
A major increase in the amount of aid to less developed countries is widely anticipated, by or soon after late 2005, to bolster efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The sums involved may not be as substantial as expected, and they come mainly from Europe, but we are still likely to see a significant enhancement of funds for development.
1 June 2005
Published by: IDS
This IDS Bulletin draws together contributions from a diverse range of researchers and development practitioners working in Africa, with the common goal of exploring why agriculture is contributing to poverty reduction and livelihood improvement in some places
1 January 2005
Published by: IDS
Along with the rest of the economy, per capita output in Zambia’s agricultural sector has been in long-run decline. On a crop-by-crop...
1 February 2003
Published by: International Food Policy Research Institute
1 January 2003
Published by: United Nations University Press
1 January 2002
Published by: IDS
The effects of trade on women varies depending on their educational level, their family circumstances and their tasks within households. What is the gender impact of promotion of non-traditional agricultural exports in Zambia? And that of tariff reduction?
1 January 2002
Published by: IDS