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Development Issues

News updates from our selection of the best sources on development issues and international cooperation policy.

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."

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."

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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