- Education for All: a compact for Africa
- Oxfam, 1999
- Makes a case for increased/refocussed funding for primary education in Africa, for consideration at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal in April 2000. Recommends: the mobilisation through a combination of debt ...
- Evaluates UNHCR's preparedness and response to the 1999 Kosovo refugee emergency
- A. Suhrke / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2000
- Report assesses UNHCR's response in relation to three criteria: the overall outcome: did the refugees obtain appropriate protection and assistance? agency criteria: did UNHCR meet its own standards for providin...
- New HIV/AIDS communications framework focuses on social and environmental context
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 1999
- This UNAIDS paper describes consultative findings and recommendations on ways to make HIV/AIDS communications more effective in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. The paper begins by re-assessing existing models and theori...
- New HIPC poverty reporting requirements
- J. Healey; M. Foster; A. Norton; D. Booth / Overseas Development Institute, 2000
- Sets out thinking since the Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) Iniative II linked debt relief to national poverty reduction frameworks in summer 1999 (including the requirement to draft draft comprehensive Poverty Reduction Strategy ...
- The importance of favouring the growth-enhancing polices of good rule of law, fiscal discipline, and openness to international trade
- D. Dollar; A. Kraay / Economic Growth Project, World Bank, 2000
- This paper investigates the link between income of the poor and overall income (per capita GDP). Paper asks: what is the general relationship between growth of income of the poor and overall economic growth, and does it...
- How evaluation can assist the Fund to carry out its mandate and responsibilities
- International Monetary Fund, 2000
- Provides an outline of the existing evaluation structure in the Fund and a list of evaluations undertaken since 1996 discusses the principles which should guide effective independent evaluation provide...
- Annual report on key poverty targets
- Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 2000
- Argues that a new global strategy against poverty needs to be mounted - with more resources, a sharper focus and a stronger commitment. Based on commitments made at the 1995 World Summit for Social Development, developing countries ar...
- Which of the Indian states are best at implementiung policy reform?
- N. Bajpai; J.D. Sachs / Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1999
- The reform process in India has so far mainly concentrated at the central level. India has yet to free up its state governments sufficiently so that they can add much greater dynamism to the reforms. Greater decentralization of decisi...
- Why adjustment policies had no impact on poverty in a rural area
- W. Cavendish / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1999
- As the 1990s have progressed, there have been increasing concerns expressed about the effects of the structural adjustment programme in Zimbabwe, both from within and outside the country. However, the debate between agencies supportin...
- Decentralization of government spending leads to lower government corruption
- R. Fisman; R. Gatti / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
- The relationship between decentralization of government activities and the extent of rent extraction by private parties is an important element in the recent debate on institutional design. The theoretical literature makes ambi...
- Adjustment and Poverty in Asia: Old Solutions and New Problems
- F. Stewart / Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1998
- Analyses how adjustment policies affected the poor in Asian economies, focussing on the period up to 1997. It shows that there was a significant reduction in both private income poverty and social income poverty over the previous thir...
- Gender and Economic Adjustment in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Information Bank on African Development Studies, 1994
- Assessing Aid—What Works, What Doesn't, and Why
- Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1998
- Summarizes the findings of a multi-year research program on aid effectiveness. Official Development Assistance has declined by one-third in real terms in the 1990s. There are a number of reasons for this, but one factor has been a sen...
- Better aid allocation could raise an extra 50 million people out of poverty
- P. Collier; D. Dollar / Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1998
- Paper derives a poverty-efficient allocation of aid and compares it with actual aid allocations. Paper uses new World Bank ratings of twenty different aspects of national policy to establish the current relations...
- Does Economic Analysis Improve the Quality of Foreign Assistance?
- K. Deininger; L. Squire; S. Basu / Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1998
- The World Bank undertakes large expenditures on economic analysis and advice for its member developing countries. What is the impact of this economic and sector work on the quality of World Bank lending? It would be useful to know whe...
- What Explains the Success or Failure of Structural Adjustment Programs?
- D. Dollar; J. Svensson / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
- A few political economy variables can successfully predict the outcome of an adjustment loan 75 percent of the time. To select promising candidates for adjustment, the World Bank must do a better job of understanding which environment...
- Bridging the gap?: the parallel universes of the non-profit and non-governmental organisation research traditions and the changing context of voluntary action
- D. Lewis / Centre for Civil Society, LSE, 1998
- Makes a set of general observations about international third sector research and argues that there are currently two 'parallel universes' of literature. The first of these is work which focuses on the 'North' (on what are often terme...
- A collection of papers on pastoralism and pastoralists
- M. Boboh Vabi / Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1993
- This collection of papers includes: Highlights of the Nigerian livestock resources report (David Bourn). This article estimates the value of Nigerian livestock as a major national asset. Who controls this asset is worth further...
- Assessment and monitoring of forest and tree resources
- R. Persson; K. Janz / World Forestry Congress, 1999
- The interest for better information about forest resources is growing at both national and international level. Demands for new types of information are now frequently being raised (regarding e.g. biological diversity, non- wood fores...
- Sub-Saharan Africa science support programme
- American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1999
- The AAAS Sub-Saharan Africa Program was inaugurated by AAAS in 1987, representing a concerned response on the part of U.S. scientists and educators to the institutional crisis their African colleagues were facing. Its establishment al...
- 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
