- Analysis of aid-growth linkages. How can we make the different kinds of aid instruments work better in varying country circumstances?
- H. Hansen; F. Tarp / Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1999
- There is a widespread perception among academic researchers and aid practitioners alike that empirical cross-country analysis fails to find any significant link between aid flows and growth, and that aid is successful only when associ...
- Questions the accuracy of World Bank indicators of debt-distress and their use as HIPC sustainability targets
- P. Hjertholm / Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1999
- These targets are interpreted as `switching values', below which countries are (on average) expected to avoid debt service problems, but as such, they do not take into account that countries encounter debt service problems for a varie...
- Why civil society groups should be trusted to play a significant role in the process of democratization
- M. Samvirke / Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke, 1999
- Danish INGO looks at arguments for supporting NGO and civil society groups. Reflects critically on the strengths as well as the weaknesses and challenges confronting civil society in the South in particular, based on the experiences o...
- Discussion document on value of partnerships between NGOs and the European Union
- European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 1999
- Aims to: give an overview of the existing relationships between the Commission and NGOs including some current problems suggest possible ways to develop these relationships by considering the measures needed t...
- What are European donors doing to meet poverty reduction targets? What are the conditions for success?
- A. Cox / Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1999
- Survey of European donors suggests that development agencies are increasingly seeking to involve partner governments and the poor themselves in translating poverty reduction aims into real benefits. Participatory approaches and gender...
- Capacity Building: A New Way of Doing Business for Development Assistance Organizations
- M. Schacter / Institute on Governance, 1999
- The paper provides an overview of challenges faced by development assistance agencies as they seek to adopt a "capacity building" perspective. It explores the roots of those challenges and describes approaches to addressing them.
- Tool to guide donor agencies in making a self-assessment of their progress in implementing partnership and capacity development principles
- Institutional and Capacity Development Network, DAC, 1999
- Aimed at reform-minded agencies and staff concerned with integrating capacity development into their day-to-day operations and improving their performance in this field. Aims to link donor's internal policies and practices to the impa...
- Framework for thinking about capacity development and how to assess this through the use of indicators.
- P. Morgan / Institutional and Capacity Development Network, DAC, 1997
- Report sets out a generic list of capabilities that projects could be designed to achieve. These have to do with learning and adapting, forming productive relationships both inside and outside the organization, being able to recruit a...
- From Relief and Development to Assisted Self-Reliance: Nongovernmental Organizations in Bangladesh
- J. Buckland / Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, 1999
- By definition, virtually all development interventions contain a welfare element. This welfare element involves the subsidized provision to a marginalized group or community by an external agency, physical, human, and/or social capita...
- How life in a refugee camp affects gender, age and class relations
- S. Turner / United Nations [UN] High Commission for Refugees, 1999
- Focuses on how the relief operation’s policy of equality challenges older hierarchies of authority. Through an analysis of refugees’ representations of gender relations, relations between generations, and relations between p...
- Evaluation reports: Australian Agency for International Development
- Australian Agency for International Development, 1998
- Series of reports on evaluation of Australian development aid including: Evaluation findings: a compilation of AusAID's evaluation and review reports 1992/97 Monitoring and evaluation capacity-building study ...
- Grain Market Research Project, Ethiopia
- Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1998
- Series of full text papers on grain marketing and food security in Ethiopia. Papers include: Improving information and Performance in Grain Marketing. Tschirley D., Diskin P., Molla D. and Clay D. (September 1995). ...
- Global Economic Prospects and the Developing Countries 1997
- Prospects for Development [World Bank], 1997
- This year’s Global Economic Prospects reviews the implications for developing countries of three important changes in the world economy that globalization is bringing about. First, five large developing and transition economies -...
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- Aid, the Incentive Regime, and Poverty Reduction
- C. Burnside; D. Dollar / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
- Aid spurs growth and poverty reduction only in a good policy environment so it should be targeted to countries that have improved their economic policy. That aid tends to be allocated relatively indiscriminately is one factor that und...
- Participatory Organizational Evaluation Tool (POET)
- Communication Initiative, 1998
- Tool and procees to (a) measure and profile organizational capacities and consensus levels in seven critical areas, and assess, over time, the impact of these activities on organizational capacity (benchmarking). (b) process to build ...
- Poverty and Environment: Turning the Poor into Agents of Environmental Regeneration
- K.S. Parikh / Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 1998
- The poor adapt and learn to live with poverty in a variety of ways. They also try to cope with shocks from events such as droughts, floods and loss of employment. Environmental resources play a vital role in their survival strategies....
- Danish Aid Policy: Theory and Empirical Evidence
- F Tarp; C.F. Bach; H. Hansen; S. Baunsgaard / Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1998
- Study of Danish aid policy from the early 1960s to 1995. It includes (i) a review of officially stated aims and criteria, (ii) a descriptive analysis of actual behaviour in international comparative perspective, (iii) a review of the ...
- Debt Relief for Tanzania: An opportunity for a better future
- Oxfam, 1998
- The Tanzanian Government has committed itself to a long-term strategy aimed at eradicating poverty by 2025. Sectoral plans have been drawn up aimed at achieving progress towards universal primary education and the expansion of basic h...
- Poverty alleviation in Vietnam
- Micro Impacts of Macroeconomic and Adjustment Policies Programme, 1998
- Research project analysing the impacts of macroeconomic adjustment in the last few years in Vietnam on macroeconomic indicators and micro units – firm and household. WWW site has detailed results from the project and its s...
- Development bank of Latin America
- Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JSAPMDD)
- Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JSAPMDD) is a regional alliance of peoples’ movements, community organisations, coalitions, NGOs and networks.
- United Nations High-level Panel on Global Sustainability (GSP)
- On 9 August 2010, the Secretary-General launched the High-level Panel on Global Sustainability (GSP) that brings together renowned world figures to formulate a new blueprint for a sustainable future on a planet under increasing stress resulting from human activities. Recognizing that climate change, water scarcity, loss of biodiversity, the destruction of ecosystems and shifting demogra...
- Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN)
- The Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) is a network of 22 member country governments that promotes global change research in the region, increases developing country involvement in that research, and strengthens interactions between the science community and policy-makers.
- Belize Red Cross Society
- In the Caribbean, the national Red Cross societies are assisted by the International Federation Secretariat, with regional offices based in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the Dominican Republic, with support from the Americas Zone Office based in Panama. The IFRC secretariat provides services that include international coordination of disaster relief, capacity-building of National Societi...
- Brot für die Welt
- "Brot für die Welt" ("Bread for the World") is a programme of help initiated by the protestant churches in Germany. It was set up in Berlin in 1959 and since then has been the responsibility of the “Diakonische Werk”, the Social Service Agency of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD). "Brot für die Welt" works jointly with local churches and par...
- Economics Web Institute
- Institute focusing on economics and management
- Publish What You Fund
- Publish What You Fund campaigns for aid transparency – more and better information about aid. It urges donors to disclose their aid information regularly and promptly, and in a standardised format that will be comparable with other countries and accessible to all. It supports greater disclosure of aid information in line with the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Standar...
- United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
- Multidisciplinary research institute on development economics
- International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)
- Policy impact evaluation
