Poverty focused aid
- Economic Policy Reform and Growth Prospects in Emerging Africa Economies
- P. Guillaumont; S.G. Jeanneney; A. Varoudakis / OECD Development Centre, 1999
- Assesses the prospects for growth of African economies up to the year 2010 by modelling structural and policy determinants of growth, under different scenarios for changes in the exogenous factors and economic policies which shape the...
- When is foreign aid policy credible? : aid dependence and conditionality
- Jakob Svensson / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- Disbursements of foreign aid are guided (in part) by the needs of the poor. Anticipating this, recipients have little incentive to improve the welfare of the poor. The welfare of all parties might be improved by tied project aid and b...
- Aid, Policies, and Growth
- C. Burnside; D, Dollar / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- Aid has a positive impact on growth in developing countries with good fiscal, monetary, and trade policies. Aid appears not to affect policies systematically either for good or for ill. Any tendency for aid to reward good policies has...
- The Management of British Bilateral Aid and its Effectiveness
- J. Healey / European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999
- This paper looks at how the Overseas Development Administration (ODA) manages the British bilateral aid programme. It initially examines its strategic approach to aid allocation and use. A major interest is how its aid objectives are ...
- Report to US Congress on reform of the development banks and the international finance regime
- A.H. Meltzer / International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, US Congress (Meltzer Commission), 2000
- Report recommends many far-reaching changes to improve the effectiveness, accountability, and transparency of the financial institutions and to eliminate overlapping responsibilities The report looking at the future of seven ke...
- Promises to the Poor: the Record of European Development Agencies
- A. Cox; J. Healey / Overseas Development Institute, 1998
- All the European development cooperation agencies subscribe to the international goal of reducing poverty by one half by 2015 but they have different strategies for achieving it. Most do now share a consensus that: the...
- The UK White Paper on International Development - and Beyond
- Overseas Development Institute, 1998
- In November 1997, the British Government published its long-awaited White Paper on international development, the first comprehensive statement on British aid for 22 years. It has been widely welcomed as a significant shift in the ori...
- How Bad Governance Impedes Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh
- R. Sobhan / OECD Development Centre, 1998
- In 1995/96, 47.5 per cent of the population of Bangladesh were still living below the poverty line. While this represents a decline compared to 62.6 per cent in 1983/84, the absolute number of poor people has in fact increased over th...
- How Did Highly Indebted Poor Countries Become Highly Indebted?: Reviewing Two Decades of Debt Relief
- W. Easterly / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- Theoretical models predict that countries with unchanged long-run savings preferences will respond to debt relief by running up new debts or by running down assets. And there are some signs that incremental debt relief over the past t...
- Insights from the District Development Project, Uganda
- United Nations Capital Development Fund, 1999
- District Development Project (DDP) Pilot was set up to support the efforts of Ugandans to eradicate poverty in rural areas through improved inclusiveness, efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability in the delivery of public goods an...
- When is foreign aid policy credible? : aid dependence and conditionality
- Jakob Svensson / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- Disbursements of foreign aid are guided (in part) by the needs of the poor. Anticipating this, recipients have little incentive to improve the welfare of the poor. The welfare of all parties might be improved by tied project aid and b...
- Aid, Policies, and Growth
- C. Burnside; D, Dollar / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- Aid has a positive impact on growth in developing countries with good fiscal, monetary, and trade policies. Aid appears not to affect policies systematically either for good or for ill. Any tendency for aid to reward good policies has...
- The Management of British Bilateral Aid and its Effectiveness
- J. Healey / European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999
- This paper looks at how the Overseas Development Administration (ODA) manages the British bilateral aid programme. It initially examines its strategic approach to aid allocation and use. A major interest is how its aid objectives are ...
- Report to US Congress on reform of the development banks and the international finance regime
- A.H. Meltzer / International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, US Congress (Meltzer Commission), 2000
- Report recommends many far-reaching changes to improve the effectiveness, accountability, and transparency of the financial institutions and to eliminate overlapping responsibilities The report looking at the future of seven ke...
- Promises to the Poor: the Record of European Development Agencies
- A. Cox; J. Healey / Overseas Development Institute, 1998
- All the European development cooperation agencies subscribe to the international goal of reducing poverty by one half by 2015 but they have different strategies for achieving it. Most do now share a consensus that: the...
- The UK White Paper on International Development - and Beyond
- Overseas Development Institute, 1998
- In November 1997, the British Government published its long-awaited White Paper on international development, the first comprehensive statement on British aid for 22 years. It has been widely welcomed as a significant shift in the ori...
- How Bad Governance Impedes Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh
- R. Sobhan / OECD Development Centre, 1998
- In 1995/96, 47.5 per cent of the population of Bangladesh were still living below the poverty line. While this represents a decline compared to 62.6 per cent in 1983/84, the absolute number of poor people has in fact increased over th...
- How Did Highly Indebted Poor Countries Become Highly Indebted?: Reviewing Two Decades of Debt Relief
- W. Easterly / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- Theoretical models predict that countries with unchanged long-run savings preferences will respond to debt relief by running up new debts or by running down assets. And there are some signs that incremental debt relief over the past t...
- Insights from the District Development Project, Uganda
- United Nations Capital Development Fund, 1999
- District Development Project (DDP) Pilot was set up to support the efforts of Ugandans to eradicate poverty in rural areas through improved inclusiveness, efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability in the delivery of public goods an...
- The performance of the Lesotho credit union movement: internal financing and external capital inflow
- P. Sparreboom-Burger / Enterprise and Cooperative Development Department, Social Finance Unit, ILO, 1996
- Looks at the effects of using financial cooperatives in Lesotho as conduits for providing financial resources to the poor. The empirical study which forms the basis of this paper explores the factors that have determined the success o...
- Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Website (IPC)
- The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is a standardised tool that aims at providing a “common currency” for classifying food security. By using a common scale, which is comparable across countries, the tool is designed to make it easier for donors, agencies and governments to identify priorities for intervention before they become catastrophic. The IPC web...
