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Academic paper: How market institutions shape urban food supply in Africa
2008-06-05 19:35:00 Source: id21 How market institutions shape urban food supply in Africa As the urban share of Africa’s population increases, it is crucial to understand how food supply in cities is shaped by market institutions. This topic has received little attention from policymakers and researchers, however, despite the implications it has for people’s livelihoods and poverty. http://www.id21.org/urban/u7gp1-g1.html ...
Academic paper: South Africa and China - the agricultural and fisheries tra
2008-06-05 19:02:00 Source: ELDIS Authors: Sandrey,R.; Fundira,T. Produced by: Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa (200 A feature of world trade over the last ten years has been the dramatic growth of China’s trade with the world. This paper examines the agricultural component of Chinese trade with South Africa, which it aims to place in broader perspective of ...
Academic paper: Accra 2008 - the bumpy road to aid effectiveness in agricul
2008-06-05 18:36:00 Source: ELDIS Accra 2008: the bumpy road to aid effectiveness in agriculture Authors: Cabral,L. Produced by: Overseas Development Institute [ES] (200 The 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness will be reviewed at the Third High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra in September 2008. The Paris Declaration establishes operating principles for donors and recipient governments to improve ...
Madagascar: Governance and institutional development project
2008-06-04 12:45:00 The World Bank Group?s Board approved the second Governance and Institutional Development Project (PGDI ? II) in Madagascar: This US$40 million financing will enhance reforms initiated under the PGDI - 1 http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE-/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/0-,,contentMDK:21789 073~menuPK:258658~pagePK:286510-6~piPK:2865128~theSitePK:258644-,00.html
Ghana: 2008 budget receives US$145 million support from the World Bank
2008-06-04 12:42:00 Ghana?s 2008 budget receives US$145 million support from the World Bank: Poverty Reduction, Food and Agriculture, Energy, Decentralization,Natural Resource and Environmental Governance (including EITI++),and Donor Harmonization to get more boost. http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE-/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/0-,,contentMDK:21789 063~menuPK:258658~pagePK:286510-6~piPK:2865128~theSitePK:258644-,00.html
IMF Executive Board Approves US$45.7 Million PRGF Arrangement for Mali with
2008-06-02 17:25:00 Press Release: IMF Executive Board Approves US$45.7 Million PRGF Arrangement for Mali with Front-Loaded Disbursement to Address Higher Food and Fuel Prices http://www.imf.org/external/np/-sec/pr/2008/pr08126.htm
IMF Mozambique: Second Review Under the Policy Support Instrument (PSI)
2008-06-02 17:23:00 Press Release: IMF Completes Second Review Under the Policy Support Instrument (PSI) for Mozambique http://www.imf.org/external/np/-sec/pr/2008/pr08123.htm
Burkina Faso: 2 IMF papers 06/2008
2008-06-02 17:21:00 Country Report No. 08/168: Burkina Faso: 2007 Article IV Consultation, First Review Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility, Request for Access Augmentation, Requests for Waivers of Nonobservance of Performance Criteria, and Request for Modification of Performance Criteria - Staff Report; Public Information Notice and Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by ...
IMF Niger: 2 reports 06/2008
2008-06-02 17:19:00 Country Report No. 08/167: Niger: Joint Staff Advisory Note on the Second Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper http://www.imf.org/external/pub-s/cat/longres.cfm?sk=21988.0 Press Release: IMF Executive Board Completes Sixth and Final Review Under the PRGF Arrangement with Niger and Approves New US$37.5 Million Successor PRGF Arrangement http://www.imf.org/external/np/-sec/pr/2008/pr08127.htm
African food crisis: Food,fuel shock can ?wreck the exchequer? in Africa
2008-06-02 12:31:00 Source: AlertNet Africa’s cocoa makes the world’s chocolate, its fish, fruit and vegetables reach tables around the globe and its oil powers vehicles and factories from China to the United States. Yet far from benefiting from soaring commodity prices, African states are being squeezed as hard as any by the costs of fuel and food imports. ...
Academic paper DRC: The timber trade and poverty alleviation - Upper Great
2008-05-31 10:59:00 Source: ELDIS The timber trade and poverty alleviation - Upper Great Lakes region Produced by: Department for International Development, UK (2007) This report analyses how trade in timber produced in the eastern DRC and Southern Sudan can contribute to stability and economic development in the region. Presenting an overview of trade volumes and routes, the paper finds that ...
Academic paper: Economic Partnership Agreements -which way for Malawi?
2008-05-31 10:56:00 Source: ELDIS EPAs: which way for Malawi? Produced by: Malawi Economic Justice Network (2007) This paper reports on a stakeholder meeting that took place on the 4th December 2007 to discuss the issue of making trade work for poor people in Malawi. It is particularly concerned with the signing of an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) and whether this ...
Academic paper: Tackling Malawi?s human resources crisis
2008-05-31 10:52:00 Source: ID21 Tackling Malawi’s human resources crisis The achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 will only be possible if we can successfully strengthen the capacity of health systems in middle and low-income countries. http://www.id21.org/insights/in-sights-h12/art06.html
Ethiopia: 3 new World Bank projects, urban development, water and pastorali
2008-05-31 10:39:00 Ethiopia: World Bank Provides funds in support of Urban Development US$150 million credit approved for the Urban Local Government Development Project http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE-/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/0-,,contentMDK:21784 394~menuPK:258658~pagePK:286510-6~piPK:2865128~theSitePK:258644-,00.html Ethiopia: World Bank provides funds for sustainable development of water resources in the Tana & Beles Sub-basins http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE-/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/0-,,contentMDK:21784 421~menuPK:258658~pagePK:286510-6~piPK:2865128~theSitePK:258644-,00.html Ethiopia: World Bank Provides funds in support of Pastoralist Community Development US$ 80 million approved for the second phase of the Pastoralist development project (PCDP ...
Congo Brazzaville : World Bank approves US$40 million grant to expand healt
2008-05-31 10:35:00 Congo Brazzaville : World Bank approves US$40 million grant to expand health services http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE-/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/0-,,contentMDK:21784 362~menuPK:258658~pagePK:286510-6~piPK:2865128~theSitePK:258644-,00.html
Niger: Two new World Bank projects
2008-05-31 10:32:00 Niger: Bank?s New Strategy In Niger Focuses on Accelerating Rural Growth to Reduce Poverty http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE-/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/0-,,contentMDK:21784 348~menuPK:258658~pagePK:286510-6~piPK:2865128~theSitePK:258644-,00.html Niger: World Bank approves US$30 Million for Local Urban Infrastructure Development Project http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE-/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/0-,,contentMDK:21784 324~menuPK:258658~pagePK:286510-6~piPK:2865128~theSitePK:258644-,00.html
Training manual: Participatory Budgeting in Africa: A Training Companion wi
2008-05-29 23:36:00 Source: ELDIS Participatory Budgeting in Africa: A Training Companion with cases from eastern and southern Africa - Volume I: concepts and principles How to implement participatory budgeting at local government level in Africa (Volume 1) Authors: ; UN-Habitat; Municipal Development Partnership Eastern and Southern Africa Publisher: Affiliated Network for Social Accountability, 2008 Full text of document Participatory ...
Is it Africa?s Turn? Progress in the world?s poorest region.
2008-05-29 16:22:00 The Boston Review has a series of recent articles on progress in Africa. In particular the article by the economist Edward Miguel resonated with me. Miguel has been visiting a small city in Kenya every year since 1997 to help local development-oriented nonprofit organizations design and evaluate their rural programs. In this meaty article the ...
Can poor people benefit from ornamental fish farming in West Africa?s rainf
2008-05-13 20:59:00 Interesting story this one. It seems strange to think about ornamental fish with all the recent talk about a growing food crisis. I guess most of us thought that these fish which appear in garden centres are grown in the UK or our own country. The issues discussed here are important though, and are pertinent ...
Nigerian banks getting local language ATM
2008-05-12 18:01:00 Source: Africa News Nigerian banks getting local language ATM Posted on Friday 9 May 2008 - 09:45 Ayo Ajayi, AfricaNews reporter in Lagos, Nigeria Nigerian banks will soon have Automated Teller Machines ATM designed to communicate in all the Nigerian languages. Khombined Technology Ltd’s Managing Director Patrick Omolayole has disclosed that National Incorporation of China would also ...
Benin IMF: Working Paper No. 08/120: Investment and Growth Dynamics: An Emp
2008-05-12 10:05:00 Working Paper No. 08/120: Investment and Growth Dynamics: An Empirical Assessment Applied to Benin Author/Editor: Samaké, Issouf Summary: We investigate the nexus of public and private investment and assess the impact of both types of investment on growth. Using annual data for 1965-2005, we employ a coherent set of structural VAR outputs to model investment and growth ...
Mozambique IMF: Country Report No. 08/152: Republic of Mozambique: Report o
2008-05-12 10:03:00 Country Report No. 08/152: Republic of Mozambique: Report on Observance of Standards and Codes - Fiscal Transparency Module Download the report http://www.imf.org/external/pub-s/cat/longres.cfm?sk=21948.0
Botswana IMF: Working Paper No. 08/117: Calculating Sustainable Non-mineral
2008-05-12 10:01:00 Working Paper No. 08/117: Calculating Sustainable Non-mineral Balances as Benchmarks for Fiscal Policy: The Case of Botswana Author/Editor: Clausen, Jens R. Summary: Assuming a social welfare function that smoothes expenditure, this paper calculates a sustainability benchmark for the non-mineral balance in Botswana that is based on a notion of a “permanent income” from non-renewable resources. It is ...
Sao Tome and Principe IMF: Working Paper No. 08/118: The Choice of Monetary
2008-05-12 09:58:00 Working Paper No. 08/118: The Choice of Monetary and Exchange Rate Arrangements for a Small, Open, Low-Income Economy: The Case of Sao Tome and Principe Author/Editor: Wang, Jian-Ye ; Ronci, Márcio Valério ; Farhan, Nisreen ; Takebe, Misa ; Shanghavi, Amar Summary: This paper assesses São Tomé and Príncipe’s monetary and exchange rate arrangements in light of ...
Niger IMF: Country Report No. 08/149: Niger: Poverty Reduction Strategy Pap
2008-05-12 09:54:00 Country Report No. 08/149: Niger: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper http://www.imf.org/external/pub-s/cat/longres.cfm?sk=21938.0
Commission on Sustainable Development told of need to incorporate climate c
2008-05-11 13:02:00 Source: African Press Organization 9 May 2008 Commission on Sustainable Development Sixteenth Session 10th & 11th Meetings (AM & PM) Commission on Sustainable Development told of need to incorporate climate change strategies into africa?s bid to close gap between potential, productivity Efforts to close the persistent gap between Africa?s potential and its current stagnant economic growth and declining agricultural productivity must ...
Liberia IMF:Conclusion of Staff Mission 2008
2008-05-05 13:00:00 Source: IMF Press Release: Statement at the Conclusion of an IMF Staff Mission to Liberia http://www.imf.org/external/np/-sec/pr/2008/pr0898.htm
Togo IMF: Country Report 2008
2008-05-05 12:58:00 Source: IMF Country Report No. 08/146: Togo: Request for Three - Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility - Staff Report; Staff Statement; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Togo http://www.imf.org/external/pub-s/cat/longres.cfm?sk=21932.0
Equatorial Guinea: IMF Executive Board Concludes 2007 Article IV Consultati
2008-05-05 12:56:00 Source: IMF Public Information Notice: IMF Executive Board Concludes 2007 Article IV Consultation with the Republic of Equatorial Guinea http://www.imf.org/external/np/-sec/pn/2008/pn0848.htm
African book: Monitoring regional integration in Southern Africa Yearbook.
2008-05-03 13:23:00 Source: ELDIS This book is available for free download from: http://www.nepru.org.na/fileadm-in/download/books/MRIY_07_total-_book.pdf Monitoring regional integration in Southern Africa Yearbook. Volume 7 (2007) The flawed rationale for a customs union and other challenges for Southern African regional integration Authors: A. Bösl; W. Breytenbach; T. Hartzenberg; Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa (TRALAC) Publisher: Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit , 2007 ...
Ivory Coast, Côte d?Ivoire: IMF report
2008-04-29 13:00:00 Source: IMF Country Report No. 08/142: Côte d’Ivoire: Request for Emergency Post -Conflict Assistance - Staff Report; Staff Statement; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Côte d’Ivoire http://www.imf.org/external/pub-s/cat/longres.cfm?sk=21923.0
Togo: Three IMF reports
2008-04-29 10:30:00 Source: IMF Press Release: IMF Executive Board Approves US$108.4 Million Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility Arrangement for Togo http://www.imf.org/external/np/-sec/pr/2008/pr0890.htm * Country’s Policy Intentions Documents — Togo: Letter of Intent, Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies, and Technical Memorandum of Understanding, March 28, 2008 http://www.imf.org/External/NP/-LOI/2008/tgo/032808.pdf Country Report No. 08/144: Togo: Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper http://www.imf.org/external/pub-s/cat/longres.cfm?sk=21925.0 To view and ...
AgriBusiness Forum 2008
2008-04-08 12:16:00 Source: APO News 8 April 2008 EMRC International invites business leaders, investors and development experts to the EMRC AgriBusiness Forum 2008 on Africa’s private sector development. Brussels, Belgium – The EMRC AgriBusiness Forum 2008 will take place at the FAO Headquarters in Rome on 18-20 June. Organised by EMRC International in collaboration with the ...
WHO: Country-by-country data on the impact of environmental factors on heal
2008-04-08 12:00:00 Source:WHO New country-by-country data show in detail the impact of environmental factors on health 13 JUNE 2007 | GENEVA — The World Health Organization (WHO) is today releasing the first ever country-by-country analysis of the impact environmental factors have on health. The data show huge inequalities but also demonstrate that in every country, people’s health could be ...
SENEGAL: Dakar on less than $5 a day
2008-04-08 00:16:00 Source: IRIN NEWS SENEGAL: Dakar on less than $5 a day DAKAR, 7 April (IRIN) - While driving a rusty old yellow taxi through Dakar’s potholed streets looking for customers, Abdou Ndoye told IRIN how he and his family of nine gets by on the 2,000 CFA francs [US$4.80] he makes a day. “Sometimes we eat more, other ...
Burkina Faso IMF: Poverty Reducation and Growth Facility report 2008
2008-04-07 12:32:00 Source: IMF Statement by an IMF Staff Mission to Burkina Faso Press Release No. 08/71 April 3, 2008 An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team led by Mr. Norbert Funke visited Burkina Faso during March 19-April 2 for the 2nd review of the program supported under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF).1 The mission reviewed economic developments and prospects, ...
Guinea IMF: Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility report 2008
2008-04-07 12:29:00 Source: IMF Statement by an IMF Mission to the Republic of Guinea Press Release No. 08/68 April 2, 2008 An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission, led by Mr. Le Dem, visited the Republic of Guinea during March 20-April 2, 2008 to conduct discussions on the first review under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) arrangement, approved by the ...
Mozambique IMF: progress review 2008
2008-04-07 12:25:00 Source: IMF Statement by the IMF Staff Mission to Mozambique Press Release No. 08/69 April 1, 2008 An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission, led by Mr. Jean A. P. Clément, visited Maputo from March 18-31, 2008, to review progress under Mozambique’s three-year Policy Support Instrument (PSI), approved on June 18, 2007, and to discuss the IMF’s ongoing support for ...
Botswana IMF: Exchange Rate Assessment in a Resource - Dependent Economy
2008-04-07 12:20:00 Source: IMF Working Paper No. 08/83: Exchange Rate Assessment in a Resource - Dependent Economy: The Case of Botswana Author/Editor: Deléchat, Corinne; Gaertner, Matthew Summary: The paper combines various methodologies to assessing the level of the exchange rate in Botswana, explicitly taking into account the implications of its dependency on diamond exports. Real exchange rate estimation indicates that, ...
Academic paper: A Bayesian-Estimated Model of InflationTargeting in South A
2008-04-05 12:07:00 Source: IMF A Bayesian-Estimated Model of InflationTargeting in South Africa Author/Editor: Harjes, Thomas | Ricci, Luca Antonio Authorized for Distribution: February 1, 2008 Electronic Access: Free Full Text (PDF file size is 590KB) Use the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this PDF file. Disclaimer: This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF. The views expressed in this ...
Academic paper: The Gambia tourism value chain and prospects for pro-poor t
2008-04-05 11:42:00 Source: ODI The Gambia tourism value chain and prospects for pro-poor tourism Jonathan Mitchell and Jojoh Faal. ODI Working Papers 289, March 2008. This study examines the current state of tourism in The Gambia, West Africa, and proposes a series of practical measures to enhance the flow of benefits to the poor. Download the full paper (PDF) ...
Briefing paper: African Growth - Forgotten Issues
2008-04-05 11:39:00 Source: ODI African Growth - Forgotten Issues Dirk Willem te Velde. IPPG Briefing Paper 19, March 2008. Successful African growth strategies will increasingly rely on appropriate services strategies backed by contextspecific development of institutions and statebusiness relations. Download the full paper (PDF)
Guinea commemorates 24th coup anniversary amid economic crisis
2008-04-03 19:15:00 Source: APA Guinea commemorates 24th coup anniversary amid economic crisis APA - Conakry (Guinea) Guineans commemorated on Thursday the anniversary of the 3 April 1984 coup d?etat amid acute crisis, few days after the fuel price increase which made the cost of living even more expensive. A wreath laying ceremony, headed by Prime ...
2008 Economic Report on Africa available
2008-04-02 12:56:00 Source: UN Pulse The 2008 Economic Report on Africa (full text, pdf, 6.24 MB) has been launched. The report, the annual flagship publication of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), has the theme ?Africa and the Monterrey Consensus: Tracking Performance and Progress.? The Monterrey Consensus (pdf, 286 KB) refers to a 2002 conference ...
Gambia: Workshop on rural finance opens in Banjul
2008-04-01 16:36:00 Source: APA Workshop on rural finance opens in Banjul APA-Banjul (The Gambia) A three-day sub-regional workshop on the rural finance challenges facing Africa was opened in Banjul on Monday by the Central Bank of the Gambia governor Momodou Bamba Saho. Saho told the participants drawn from the Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana and Nigeria, that ...
Namibian consumers worry over 7.9% inflation
2008-03-20 11:00:00 Source: APA Namibian consumers worry over 7.9% inflation APA-Windhoek (Namibia) Namibia?s month on month inflation rose to 7.9 percent in February from 7.8 percent in January this year, with rising food prices and transport costs continuing to stock inflationary pressures, APA learnt here Thursday. Statistics from the Bank of Namibia (BoN) released here indicate that ...
NIGERIA: Desperate children swamp northern cities as food price hikes bite
2008-03-18 23:44:00 A sad story emerging from Nigeria: Source: IRIN NEWS NIGERIA: Desperate children swamp northern cities as food price hikes bite KANO, 18 March (IRIN) - Soaring food prices have forced families to send their hungry children - some as young as four - from rural areas in northern Nigeria into Kano and other northern cities in ...
ANALYSIS-Food inflation is minefield for African governments
2008-03-18 15:10:00 Source: AlertNet ANALYSIS-Food inflation is minefield for African governments 18 Mar 2008 10:15:56 GMT Source: Reuters By Alistair Thomson DAKAR, March 18 (Reuters) - African governments, which often face catastrophic droughts, floods and crop failures, are now confronting ...
BURKINA FASO: Cost of living coalition threatens more action 17/3/08
2008-03-18 10:54:00 More on the Burkina Faso food protests from IRIN NEWS BURKINA FASO: Cost of living coalition threatens more action OUAGADOUGOU, 17 March (IRIN) - A coalition of civil society organisations that on Saturday mobilised several thousand people to take to the streets of Ouagadougou and other towns and cities in Burkina Faso has threatened a ...
Gambia central bank reports on performance of economy in 2007, 2008
2008-03-16 10:40:00 Source: APA Gambia central bank reports on performance of economy in 2007, 2008 APA-Banjul (The Gambia) The Central Bank of the Gambia on Friday, in a report cast against a background of a revised growth projection of 4.1 per cent for the global economy in 2008, reported on the Gambian economy?s performance both last ... |
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