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    Ghana Country Assistance Review: A study in Development Effectiveness

    Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995
    Bank assistance was generally effective in helping Ghana make considerable economic progress over the past decade.
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    Does Economic Analysis Improve the Quality of Foreign Assistance?

    Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1998
    The World Bank undertakes large expenditures on economic analysis and advice for its member developing countries. What is the impact of this economic and sector work on the quality of World Bank lending?
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    Aid allocation and poverty reduction

    Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1998
    Paper derives a poverty-efficient allocation of aid and compares it with actual aid allocations.Paperuses new World Bank ratings of twenty different aspects of national policy to establish the current relationship between aid, policies and growthadds mapping from growth to poverty reduction which reflects the level and distribution of incomecompares the effect of using the hea
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    Assessing Aid—What Works, What Doesn't, and Why

    Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1998
    Summarizes the findings of a multi-year research program on aid effectiveness. Official Development Assistance has declined by one-third in real terms in the 1990s. There are a number of reasons for this, but one factor has been a sense that aid does not work very well.
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    Measuring Aid Flows: a New Approach

    Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1998
    The debate on the effectiveness of foreign aid has intensified in recent years, as aid has come under increasing budgetary pressures in donor countries. Whatever the merits of the opposing arguments, the fundamental issue arises of whether the conventionally-used measures of aid such as ODA, that lump together grants and loans, accurately reflect true aid flows.
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    Uncertainty of Aid Inflows and the Aid-Growth Relationship

    Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 1999
    Argues that it is not the level of aid flows per se but the stability of such flows that determines the impact of aid on economic growth. Three measures of aid instability are employed. One is a simple deviation from trend, and measures overall instability. The other measures are based on auto-regressive estimates to capture deviations from an expected trend.
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    Aid and Reform in Africa

    Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1999
    Since the early 1980s, virtually every African country has received large amounts of aid aimed at stimulating policy reform. The results have varied enormously. Ghana and Uganda were successful reformers that grew rapidly and reduced poverty. In other countries policies changed little or even got worse.
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    DAC scoping study of donor poverty reduction policies and practices

    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 analysis are more widespread.
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    Review of Experience with Evaluation in the Fund

    International Monetary Fund, 2000
    Providesan outline of the existing evaluation structure in the Fund and a list of evaluations undertaken since 1996discusses the principles which should guide effective independent evaluationprovides an overview of the external evaluations undertaken by the Fund since 1996 and identifies particular issues arising from theexperience that any effort to strengthen the Fund's capacit
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    The evaluability of democracy and human rights projects. A logframe-related assessment

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2000
    Support for democracy and human rights (D/HR) has played an increasingly important role in Sida's co-operation with developing countries ever since the early 1990s. But there is a lack of information on the impact of initiatives. This study examines how well Sida's D/HR projects can be evaluated using the logical framework (logframe) as an organising evaluation structure.

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