Poverty focused aid
- 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...
- Reviews one donor's recent experience with poverty reduction programmes (with a Ugandan case-study)
- L. Engberg-Pedersen / Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999
- Paper discusses Danida's current policies and activities with respect to: the overall poverty reduction goal and understandings the attempt to ‘mainstream' the poverty reduction objective in guidelines an...
- What are European donors doing to meet poverty reduction targets? What are the conditions for success?
- A. Cox / Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1999
- Survey of European donors suggests that development agencies are increasingly seeking to involve partner governments and the poor themselves in translating poverty reduction aims into real benefits. Participatory approaches and gender...
- The importance of favouring the growth-enhancing polices of good rule of law, fiscal discipline, and openness to international trade
- D. Dollar; A. Kraay / Economic Growth Project, World Bank, 2000
- This paper investigates the link between income of the poor and overall income (per capita GDP). Paper asks: what is the general relationship between growth of income of the poor and overall economic growth, and does it...
- Annual report on key poverty targets
- Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 2000
- Argues that a new global strategy against poverty needs to be mounted - with more resources, a sharper focus and a stronger commitment. Based on commitments made at the 1995 World Summit for Social Development, developing countries ar...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- Aid, the Incentive Regime, and Poverty Reduction
- C. Burnside; D. Dollar / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
- Aid spurs growth and poverty reduction only in a good policy environment so it should be targeted to countries that have improved their economic policy. That aid tends to be allocated relatively indiscriminately is one factor that und...
- Danish Aid Policy: Theory and Empirical Evidence
- F Tarp; C.F. Bach; H. Hansen; S. Baunsgaard / Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1998
- Study of Danish aid policy from the early 1960s to 1995. It includes (i) a review of officially stated aims and criteria, (ii) a descriptive analysis of actual behaviour in international comparative perspective, (iii) a review of the ...
- 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...
- Reviews one donor's recent experience with poverty reduction programmes (with a Ugandan case-study)
- L. Engberg-Pedersen / Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999
- Paper discusses Danida's current policies and activities with respect to: the overall poverty reduction goal and understandings the attempt to ‘mainstream' the poverty reduction objective in guidelines an...
- What are European donors doing to meet poverty reduction targets? What are the conditions for success?
- A. Cox / Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1999
- Survey of European donors suggests that development agencies are increasingly seeking to involve partner governments and the poor themselves in translating poverty reduction aims into real benefits. Participatory approaches and gender...
- The importance of favouring the growth-enhancing polices of good rule of law, fiscal discipline, and openness to international trade
- D. Dollar; A. Kraay / Economic Growth Project, World Bank, 2000
- This paper investigates the link between income of the poor and overall income (per capita GDP). Paper asks: what is the general relationship between growth of income of the poor and overall economic growth, and does it...
- Annual report on key poverty targets
- Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 2000
- Argues that a new global strategy against poverty needs to be mounted - with more resources, a sharper focus and a stronger commitment. Based on commitments made at the 1995 World Summit for Social Development, developing countries ar...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- Aid, the Incentive Regime, and Poverty Reduction
- C. Burnside; D. Dollar / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
- Aid spurs growth and poverty reduction only in a good policy environment so it should be targeted to countries that have improved their economic policy. That aid tends to be allocated relatively indiscriminately is one factor that und...
- Danish Aid Policy: Theory and Empirical Evidence
- F Tarp; C.F. Bach; H. Hansen; S. Baunsgaard / Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1998
- Study of Danish aid policy from the early 1960s to 1995. It includes (i) a review of officially stated aims and criteria, (ii) a descriptive analysis of actual behaviour in international comparative perspective, (iii) a review of the ...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
