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  Strengthening IMF crisis prevention

  International Monetary Fund, 2005

  This paper focuses on how to reform IMF operations (in particular, IMF surveillance and its relationship with crisis lending) with the aim of providing stronger incentives for crisis prevention.It recommends that incentives could be improved by: providing more effective encouragement to policymakers to undertake actions that will prevent costly financial crisesby discouraging excess
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  Aftershocks: natural disaster risk and economic development policy

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This briefing paper considers when and where economics gives more attention to natural disasters.
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  Pakistan 2005 Earthquake: preliminary damage and needs assessment

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2005

  This assessment estimates the damage and reconstruction costs of the October 8, 2005 earthquake that struck areas of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) in Pakistan.
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  Recovery from the tsunami disaster: poverty reduction and sustainable development through microfinance

  Grameen Foundation USA, 2005

  This paper reports the findings of a team of specialists from the Grameen Foundation USA, deployed in the aftermath of the Boxing Day tsunami to assess conditions facing the poor and the effects of the disaster on the provision of microfinance.
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  Understanding the economic and financial impacts of natural disasters

  Climate Change, World Bank, 2004

  This study examines the short and long term economic and financial impacts of natural disasters. It relies in part on in-depth case studies of overall sensitivity to natural hazards in the small island economy of Dominica; public finance consequences of disasters in Bangladesh; and the economic consequences of climatic variability and the use of climatic forecasting in Malawi and southern Africa.
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  Resilience and high performance amidst conflict, epidemics and extreme poverty : the Lacor Hospital, northern Uganda

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2004

  This case study describes how the Lacor hospital has grown into a 474-bed centre of medical excellence, setting an example for the rest of the health system and helping to build health care capacity for the whole country.
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  Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2002: toward pro-poor policies: aid, institutions and globalization

  Adapting to Change [The World Bank Group], 2004

  This report presents numerous papers from the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, held in June 2002, in Oslo, Norway.The report contains papers on aid, institutions and globalization, providing a general overview of links between poverty, inequality and growth.
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  Protecting the poor through programmatic adjustment lending in Peru, Brazil and Colombia

  World Bank, 2003

  This briefing paper provides an overview of the main elements and achievements of the World Bank’s Programmatic Structural Adjustment Loans/Credits (PSAL/PSAC) in Peru, Brazil and Colombia.Introduced out of recognition of the inadequacy of project or sectoral adjustment loans in supporting long-term incremental social reform, the PSALs are designed to provide fast-disbursing, flexible, longer-t
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  Afghanistan and Central Asia: priorities for reconstruction and development

  International Crisis Group, 2001

  This article discusses the contemporary conflict in Afghanistan, and means of ensuring stability and security.The article recommends that:donors should adopt a regional approach, tackling development, drugs and security problems not just in Afghanistan but in the neighbouring countries as welldonors should establish a coordinated set of trust funds that will allow rapid disbursemen
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  Microfinance in the Wake of Conflict: Challenges and Opportunities

  microLINKS,, 1998

  Overview of the rapidly evolving practice of microfinance and microenterprise development in post-conflict situationsDocuments the surprisingly few preconditions these programs consider essential to initiate a microenterprise development program.

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