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Lesotho is one of the poorest and most
unequal countries in the world. It is a small, mostly
mountainous, and largely rural country of about 2 million
people, completely surrounded by South Africa. The
This paper reviews the performance of
the parastatal sector, with a specific focus on four main
parastatals: the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority
(ZESA); the Zimbabwe Water Authority (ZINWA); the National
The eight Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs) form a blueprint that is agreed to by all the
world's countries and its leading development
institutions. The first seven goals are mutually reinforcing
Sound infrastructure is critical for
growth in East Africa. During 1995-2005, improvements in
infrastructure boosted growth by one percentage point per
year, due largely to wider access to information and
Infrastructure improvements boosted
growth in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
by 1.2 percentage points per capita per year during
1995-2005, mainly from access to mobile telephony. Road
'Access' is primarily a gendered phenomenon in the developing countries, pertaining to all the subsets of access, i.e. access to information, rights, land, money, education, skills, political participation and voice.
The specific objective of this policy
note is to derive insights that can contribute to rapid and
sustainable integration of small-scale farmers into the
livestock and horticulture value chains in Swaziland. It
The response to the global reporting
initiative (GRI) indicators provides a brief introduction to
the World Bank’s (WB’s) complex suite of activities. The WB
consists of the International Bank of Reconstruction and
This paper offers an empirical
evaluation of the output contribution of infrastructure.
Drawing from a large data set on infrastructure stocks
covering 88 countries and spanning the years 1960-2000, and
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