- Integrating Developing Countries in a Globalising World Economy: Key Points Emerging from the DAC Informal Expert Meeting on Capacity Development for Trade (11 March 1997)
- Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1999
- Effects or impacts?: Synthesis Study on Evaluations and Reviews 1988 to mid-1995 [Finland's development cooperation projects]
- Juhani Koponen; Paivi Mattila-Wiro / Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department for International Development Cooperation / FINNIDA, 1996
- This is a synthesis study of major evaluations and reviews carried out from 1988 to mid-1995 for the Department for International Development Cooperation of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, formerly known as Finnida. The p...
- Evaluation of Finnish Personnel as Volunteers in Development Cooperation
- Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department for International Development Cooperation / FINNIDA, 1999
- The aim of this evaluation is to determine the relevance of the Finnish Volunteer Programme through examination of its three main objectives namely, developmental contribution, bridge-building and internationalisation. In respect of e...
- Urban Indicators Programme
- United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 1999
- The UNCHS Indicators Programme has developed key indicators concerning urban and housing conditions for the development of government policy and strategies, as well as monitoring and evaluation. These indicators, collected from over o...
- External debt statistics (selected data online)
- Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1999
- OECD is the major source of creditor-based statistics on external debt. Debt stock and debt service statistics are available by category of debt, with world-wide coverage of non-OECD countries, for the period 1983 to 1995, as well as ...
- 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...
- 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
- Aid and development: issues and reflections
- M. Tribe / Department of Economics, Strathclyde University, 2013
- This paper aims to explore three areas in the literature on aid and development. The first focuses on Dambisa Moyo’s controversial book Dead Aid (2009), developing some criticisms which were not fully elaborated in the reviews w...
- Implementing Global Public Policies : Are the Aid Agencies Walking the Talk?
- M. Mordasini / Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, 2012
- Today a broad recognition exists on the nature and scope of global public risks, and their impact on development. Based on available evidence and recent evaluation work by the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation...
- Brazil’s generous diplomacy: friendly dragon or paper tiger?
- R. Muggah; E. Passarelli Hamann / Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, 2012
- Featuring a stable democracy and dizzying economic growth, Brazil is fast on the way to acquiring global power status. The country is investing in enhanced multilateral and bilateral relationships as a means of leveraging trade and re...
- Learning the Lessons? Assessing the response to the 2012 food crisis in the Sahel to build resilience for the future
- Oxfam, 2013
- In 2012, the Sahel region of West and Central Africa was once again hit by a severe food crisis, affecting over 18 million people at its peak. At the start of 2012, when the crisis began to unfold, many governments, donors and aid age...
- Providing development aid to Africa : comparing South Africa with China, India and Brazil
- E. N. Tjonneland / South African Foreign Policy Initiative, 2013
- South Africa’s planned development aid agency, South African Development Partnership Agency, is expected to be established in 2013. This provides a good opportunity to assess South Africas current role as provider of development ...
- Nutrition interventions for older people in emergencies
- HelpAge International, 2013
- In emergency situations, older people may find it hard to access food. For example, when they are displaced, older people may face difficulties in registering for the general food rations, meet challenges in accessing food distributio...
- Can bilateral development cooperation programmes effectively improve performance through decentralised operation
- M. Kajimbwa / Eldis Document Store, 2011
- What is the potential of the decentralisation of bilateral development cooperation programmes as an aid to improving their performance in regard to poverty reduction? This book presents evidence-based observations on how de...
- Predicting the cost and impact of cash transfer programmes: the power of microsimulation tools
- C. O'Brien (ed) / Oxford Policy Management, 2013
- Cash transfers to households are becoming an increasingly common policy instrument for reducing poverty, particularly in some countries of sub-Saharan Africa. However pilot schemes are not always modelled at their design stage to esti...
- Benefits and challenges for UNDP when working with non-core funds
- A. Naik (ed) / The Future United Nations Development System, 2013
- Private sources of financing have become a growing feature of UN budgets. This report argues that an evaluation of the private financing of UNDP activities reveals both advantages - increased resources, more technical expertise, bette...
- When does Aid for Trade work best?
- Y. Basnett; J. Engel; J. Kennan; C. Kingombe; I. Massa; D.W. te Velde / Overseas Development Institute, 2012
- Aid for Trade has emerged as an important vehicle for assisting developing countries to improve their trade capacity and to benefit from the expansion of global markets. But any optimism on the volume of Aid for Trade flows is punctua...
- 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
