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  Tanzania and the Millennium Development Goal

  African Forum and Network on Debt and Development, 2005

  Five years into the MDGs programme, this study assesses the progress which Tanzania has made, particularly regarding the goal of poverty reduction.
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  World Economic and Social Survey 2005: financing for development

  UN, 2005

  The World Economic and Social Survey 2005 provides a comprehensive review of the wide-ranging challenges addressed in the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development.
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  Managing aid; practices of DAC member countries

  OECD Development Co-operation Directorate: DAC Guidelines and Reference Series, 2005

  This report aims to expand knowledge on the various practices and structures adopted by the 22 member countries of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC)1 for managing their foreign assistance to developing and transition countries. It highlights relevant work within the DAC as well as good practices or noteworthy features of particular DAC member countries’ programmes.
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  The Millennium Development Goals: a comparative performance of six EU member states and the EC aid programme

  Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, 2005

  This report aims to contribute to the assessment of the Millennium Summit of the effective implementation of the MDGs.
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  Scaling up versus absorptive capacity: challenges opportunities for reaching the MDGs in Africa

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This briefing paper argues that the ‘scaling up’ of aid flows that could materialise in 2005 islikely to run up against ‘absorptive capacity’ constraints, unless these are taken into account from the beginning, and adequately addressed in the design and implementation of improved aid delivery mechanisms. It asks:can poor countries effectively absorb a significant increase in aid flows?
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  International Finance Facility: CAFOD response

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2005

  This policy brief explores the features of the International Finance Facility (IFF), and explains how it can be a very imaginative response to the problem of meeting the Millennium Development Goals.Characteristics of the IFF are: it is a scheme to raise funds for development by selling on international capital markets bonds secured against long-term commitments by donor governments
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  Investing in development: a practical plan to achieve the Millennium Development Goals

  Millennium Project, 2005

  Investing in development is the final report of the UN Millennium Project. It presents the findings and recommendations of the project, which will be reported directly to the UN Secretary-General and the Administrator of the UNDP.The report makes ten key recommendations:developing country governments should adopt development strategies bold enough to meet the MDG targets for 2015.
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  Social spending, human capital, and growth in developing countries: implications for achieving the MDGs

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2004

  Using panel data from 120 developing countries from 1975 to 2000, this paper explores the impact of different policy interventions on human capital, economic growth and social indicators, with a view to evaluate their implications for the MDGs.Key findings of the study include:both education and health spending have a positive and significant direct impact on the accumulation of educati
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  Global partnerships for development: Millennium Development Goal No 8, progress report by Norway 2004

  Information from the Norwegian Government and the Ministries, 2004

  This paper examines how far Norway has come in its efforts to reach the seven targets of the eighth Millennium Development Goal (MDG), and target 9 of the seventh MDG.
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  Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2004

  United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2004

  This report proposes that despite economic growth in the Asia and Pacific region in 2003, driven largely by intraregional trade and domestic demand, there remain many obstacles to poverty reduction in the area. The authors examine various countries' poverty reduction strategies within the Asia and Pacific region, in light of meeting the Millennium Development Goals.

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