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    Does the IMF cap health spending in developing countries?

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2006
    Most of the recently negotiated International Monetary Fund (IMF) programmes include a ceiling which limits the opportunities for countries to utilise increasing aid, including billions of dollars for prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS.
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    Making fiscal space happen: managing fiscal policy in a world of scaled-up aid

    International Monetary Fund, 2006
    The G8 countries have committed to double aid flows to developing countries by 2010. Although these funds offer great opportunities to recipient countries, aid inflows of such magnitude pose significant macroeconomic challenges to low income countries (LIC).
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    A policymakers’ guide to Dutch disease

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2006
    Aimed at policy-makers, this paper tackles the issue of Dutch Disease - that is, the theory that aid flows will lead to an appreciation of the real exchange rate which can slow the growth of a country’s exports— and that aid increases might thereby harm a country’s long-term growth prospects.
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    What would doubling aid do for macroeconomic management in Africa?

    Overseas Development Institute, 2006
    This briefing paper outlines challenges and recommendations for macro-economic management of increased aid flows for sub-Saharan Africa. It outlines four combinations of policies that donor countries can chose when met with increased aid flows:neither absorb the foreign exchange nor spend the counterpart. The aid is saved, with the foreign exchange added to reserves.
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    EU aid: genuine leadership or misleading figures?: an independent analysis of European aid figures

    European Network on Debt and Development, 2006
    In 2002 European governments set themselves a collective target of providing 0.39% of their gross national income (GNI) for Official Development Assistance (ODA) by 2006 and individual minimum targets for each country of 0.33% of ODA/GNI by 2006.
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    The Palestinian war-torn economy: aid, development and state formation

    United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2006
    This study considers the background to the Palestinian Authority (PA), institution building and reform and development policy. The authors recommend that the PA complement short-term emergency responses with long-term planning and policies that focus on poverty reduction and employment growth.
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    Global monitoring report, 2006:Millennium Development Goals: strengthening mutual accountability, aid,trade, and governance

    World Bank, 2006
    This report comments on global progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), focusing on aid, trade and financial dimensions of the process. It notes that, despite commitments to raising aid effectiveness from the G8 and the Paris Declaration, the world is still far from achieving the MDGs - particularly Africa and South Asia.
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    Volatility of development aid: from the frying pan into the fire?

    International Monetary Fund, 2006
    This paper argues that, despite the introduction in 1999 of various initiatives anchored in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), aimed at strengthening coordination among donors, improving the design of financial support programmes, and improving domestic records of policy, aid flows are still erratic, and long-term commitments more unpredictable as ever.
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    Macroeconomic challenges of scaling up aid to Africa: a checklist for practitioners

    International Monetary Fund, 2006
    This handbook is intended as a practical guide for assessing the macroeconomic implications and challenges associated with a significant scaling up of aid to African countries.
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    Scaling up aid for trade: how to support poor countries to trade their way out of poverty

    Oxfam, 2005
    The notion of aid for trade covers many different types of intervention other than simply the distribution of money and goods. These include capacity and infrastructural-building initiatives, such as enhancing worker skills, modernising customs systems, building roads and ports, and improving agricultural productivity and export diversification.

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