- 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...
- Commercialisation has resulted in more rigid and permanent forms of socio-economic stratification
- P. M. Sikana; C. K. Kerven / Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1991
- As pastoral systems undergo commercialisation, all parts of those systems (livestock productivity, range use, household economies and the socio-cultural system itself) adjust to the new goals of production. This paper considers one of...
- Human face or human facade: adjustment and the health of mothers and children
- A. Costello; F. Watson; D. Woodward / Centre for International Child Health, London, 1994
- Report considers the effects of strutucal adjustment programmes on the health sector . Includes an annotated bibliography
- Reducing corruption
- World Bank Policy and Research Bulletin, 1997
- An effective state can contribute powerfully to sustainable development and the reduction of poverty. But there is no guarantee that state intervention will benefit society
- 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
