- Explaining the poor performance of the country's agricultural sector after liberalization
- K. Deininger / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
- In the early 1990s, Zambia initiated an ambitious program of liberalization that significantly opened the economy, shifting from a highly regulated and centralized to a more market-based and liberal economic paradigm. While these chan...
- Reviews option for smaller NGOs aiming to develop effective M&E systems
- N. Simister / Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 2000
- How can smaller NGOs collect monitoring and evaluation data which data is accurate and meaningful? Where does their capacity need to be improved? The paper argues that the development community as a whole pays in...
- Contribution of LAMP to increased productivity in natural resource use in a sustainable way
- K.J. Havnevik; M. Rwegangira; A. Anders Tivell / Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2000
- Evaluation of LAMP in different contexts: broader change processes development thinking comparative analysis of different conditions of LAMP in the four districts it has been implemented in ...
- Assessing the potential contribution of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to small enterprise development by understanding current information practices and needs
- R. Duncombe; R. Heeks / Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 1999
- The potential contribution of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to small enterprise development can only be assessed by first understanding current information practices and needs in such enterprises. Paper reports fin...
- Proposals to redistribute the supply of aid more evenly
- Oxfam, 2000
- As Western countries have got richer in the past ten years, the proportion of their wealth spent on humanitarian aid has gone down by 30%. The number of forgotten emergencies looks set to increase. The required response is not aid alo...
- Study covering the role of the role of NGOs in peace-building in Afghanistan, Liberia and Sri Lanka
- D. Hulme; J. Goodhand / Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2000
- Assesses the contribution of NGOs to peace-building and the ways in which NGOs, and the donors who support them, might strengthen that contribution. The overall study attempted to assess the impacts of NGOs on peace and conflict. It f...
- Watching the reform processes in EC external aid policy/institutions
- J. Bossuyt; T. Lehtinen; A. Simon; G. Laporte; G. Corre / European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2000
- Review of recent efforts to reform the European Commission's external assistance, both in terms of strategy (what is the added value of EC aid?) and management (how should the Commission organise itself?) Recommends six key are...
- When Accountability Fails: A Framework for Diagnosis and Action
- M. Schacter / Institute on Governance, 2000
- Paper targeted at development assistance agencies involved in supporting the strengthening of public-sector accountability. It proposes a simple analytical framework that is intended to help understand relationships bet...
- Experience with cross-sector donor programmes
- M. Foster; A. Norton; A. Brown; F. Naschold / Overseas Development Institute, 2000
- Paper is an outcome of the informal Like-Minded Donor Working Group on the Implementation of Sector Wide Approaches (SWA). It sets out some of the significant challenges that are facing SWA on the basis of a survey of a wide range of ...
- Commentary on the Cologne Initiative
- J. Sachs / Center for International Development, Harvard University, 1999
- Transformation of Minority Identities in Post-Colonial Nigeria
- R. Mustapha / Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1997
- Ethnic minority identities and their associated politics of disadvantage have been a central feature of post-colonial Nigerian politics. Tensions which became manifest in the 1950s have combined with new developments such as the milit...
- Decentralization and macroeconomic management
- Teresa Ter-Minassian / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- There is a vast and growing body of literature covering the potential efficiency and welfare gains from decentralization. The literature has also amply discussed the potential trade-offs between decentralization and income redistribut...
- Debt reduction and new loans : a contracting perspective
- John A Carlson; Aasim M Husain; Jeffrey Alan Zimmerman / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- The Egyptian stabilization experience : an analytical retrospective
- Arvind Subramanian / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- This paper analyzes the successful Egyptian stabilization experience during the 1990s, focusing on its distinctive features and contrasting them with the recent experiences of other developing countries that undertook adjustment. The ...
- External finance and foreign debt in central and eastern European countries
- Stefano Manzocchi / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Institutional development : skill transference through a reversal of "human capital flight" or technical assistance
- Nadeem Ul Haque; M. Ali Khan / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Policy reform, adjustment costs, and investment : with activity of local investors as a signal
- Omotunde E. G Johnson / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Sources of debt accumulation in a small open economy
- A Senhadji Semlali / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- It is widely believed that developing countries borrowed heavily on international financial markets based on the perception that the favorable external environment (low world interest rates and increasing commodity prices) of the 1970...
- Identity and "twisted" debt relationships in Kerala, India
- Y Uchiyamada / Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development, 1999
- This is a story about what happened to people and spirits in the ancestral land when "inalienable" ancestral land was alienated. Hindu Malayalis are closely related to soil/land and ancestors in it. This intimate relationships with so...
- Scaling up Participatory Watershed Development in India: The Case of the Indo-German Watershed Development Programme (IGWDP)
- J. Farrington; C. Lobo / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997
- For several years prior to the full start-up of the Indo-German Watershed Development Programme (IGWDP), its architects were driven by one principal concern: that participatory watershed development should be replicable over wide area...
- 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
