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Can cash transfers prevent inter-generational poverty in South Africa?
Zunia | Poverty 22 03 2010 "Cash transfers reduce current poverty by enhancing poor people’s access to food and other basic needs. Claims for long term impacts can also made, based on recipients’ investment of cash grants in their farm, business or human capital. Evidence from South Africa confirms that cash transfers achieve positive education, health and nutrition outcomes – even without attaching conditions."
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Sustainable livelihoods and pro-poor market development
Zunia | Poverty 22 03 2010 "Specific interventions are needed to build people’s confidence and self-esteem and encourage them to engage in market-based livelihood activities. Social differences clearly create barriers: better understanding is needed of how systems of exclusion operate and how pro-poor market approaches can overcome them."
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PAKISTAN: Sanitation awareness on the rise WHO report
UN | IRIN 22 03 2010 ISLAMABAD , 21 March 2010 (IRIN) - Awareness raising and the consequent widespread adaptation of toilets and latrines has significantly reduced the number of people relieving themselves outdoors in Pakistan, according to a 15 March World Health Organization (WHO) report.
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EGYPT: Lessons from the January floods in Sinai
UN | IRIN 21 03 2010 AL-ARISH, 21 March 2010 (IRIN) - Floods in and around the northern Egyptian city of Al-Arish in January have highlighted the need for more and better quality disaster preparedness planning in the governorate and nationwide, officials say.
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YEMEN: Landmine awareness training for children
UN | IRIN 21 03 2010 AMRAN, 21 March 2010 (IRIN) - At al-Hamza Girls School in the northern Governorate of Amran, Afra Omar from the National Mine Action Programme (NMAP) teaches a class of 50 students about the risk of mines. She holds up photos of some of the improvised explosive devices (IEDs) that were found in neighbouring Saada Governorate, where are a war between the army and Houthi-led rebels recently ended.
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ECONOMY: Greek Crisis Impacts the Balkans
IPS | Development 21 03 2010 ATHENS, Mar 20 (IPS) - Serious concerns are being raised about the impact of the ongoing recession in Greece on the political and economic situation in the neighbouring Balkans.
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ZAMBIA: School Policy for Teen Mothers a Partial Success
IPS | Development 20 03 2010 LUSAKA, Mar 19 (IPS) - Naomi Mulenga is determined to beat the odds by finishing her school education and becoming a nurse – despite being a teenage mother.
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KENYA: Trying to Rebuild Communities After Floods
IPS | Development 20 03 2010 NAIROBI, Mar 19 (IPS) - After torrential rains and floods claimed lives in Kenya’s North Rift region, hundreds of displaced people are now in dire need of relief aid.
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DEVELOPMENT: Political Will the Missing Link for MDGs
IPS | Development 20 03 2010 UNITED NATIONS, Mar 19 (IPS) - Despite numerous factors that threaten the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 - a global financial crisis, a food crisis, climate change, natural disasters – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said this week that his main concern is "political will".
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POLITICS-BURMA: A Poll, Yes, But Not Political Change
IPS | Development 20 03 2010 RANGOON, Mar 19 (IPS) - In teashops and markets, the national election due this year in Burma is the talk of the town, so much so that Thuzar, who did not take part in the 1990 poll, is quite eager to cast her vote this time.
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