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Research report

The Crisis of Extreme Inequality in SADC: Fighting austerity and the pandemic

10/05/2022

8 documents

56 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portugese, Swahili

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The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the extreme inequality in Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries, and pushed millions into poverty. The economic crisis continues due to the obscene global vaccine inequality. As of end March 2022, a dismal 14% of SADC citizens had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, compared with 65.5% in the United States […]

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Briefing paper

From Aspiration to Reality: Unpacking the Africa Mining Vision

09/03/2017

3 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese

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The Africa Mining Vision (AMV) is a policy framework that was created by the African Union in 2009 to ensure that Africa uses its mineral resources strategically for broad-based, inclusive development. Eight years after its inception, implementation has been slow and there is a low level of awareness of the framework among key stakeholders in […]

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Campaign report

Even it Up: Time to end extreme inequality

29/10/2014

10 documents

140 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Economic inequality has reached extreme levels. From Ghana to Germany, Italy to Indonesia, the gap between rich and poor is widening. In 2013, seven out of 10 people lived in countries where economic inequality was worse than 30 years ago, and in 2014 Oxfam calculated that just 85 people owned as much wealth as the […]

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Briefing note

A Dangerous Diversion: Will the IFC’s flagship health PPP bankrupt Lesotho’s Ministry of Health?

07/04/2014

3 documents

28 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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The Queen ‘Mamohato Memorial Hospital in Lesotho was built under a public–private partnership (PPP), which is the first of its kind in a low-income country and has been described as opening a new era for private sector involvement in healthcare in Africa. Instead, the Ministry of Health in one of the poorest and most unequal […]

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Journal article

Gender, large-scale development and food insecurity in Lesotho: an analysis of the impact of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project

06/11/2010

11 pages long

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Gender, large-scale development and food insecurity in Lesotho: an analysis of the impact of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project

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This article investigates the effects of development policy on gender and food security. It analyses how one policy instituted by a large-scale multi-dam development project, the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), affected women’s food security in the rural highlands of Lesotho, southern Africa. This was a mitigation policy, aiming to ensure that the LHWP did […]

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Journal article

Practical Notes

01/02/1997

12 pages long

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Practical Notes. With reference to ‘Finance: friend or foe?’, ‘Reconstruction in El Salvador: the social relations of community self-build’, ‘PRA in the shade of the mango groves’ and ‘When relief and development programmes meet: a case-study from the Lesotho Red Cross’. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

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Journal article

Women’s rights, the family, and organisational culture: a Lesotho case study

01/02/1997

6 pages long

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Women’s rights, the family, and organisational culture: a Lesotho case study

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This article discusses the work of Lesotho Save the Children (LSC) in caring for girls who have suffered sexual abuse within their families. Support takes the form of providing refuge in the ‘substitute family’ setting of a Children’s Village in Maseru, Lesotho’s capital, where counselling and rehabilitation is offered. This article is hosted by our […]

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Journal article

Decentralising urban health activities in developing countries

01/05/1994

8 pages long

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While there is considerable documented experience of decentralising health services in rural areas of developing countries, the decentralisation of health services in the urban context is rarely analysed. Urban development literature usually fails to address health issues, while the literature on the decentralisation of health services tends to ignore the urban sector. This article addresses […]

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