- 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...
- 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...
- 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
