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  Politics and poverty reduction strategies: lessons from Latin American HIPCs

  Overseas Development Institute, 2006

  This paper addresses the perception that poverty reduction strategy (PRS) processes in Latin America and the Caribbean have not grappled effectively with politics, and have not engaged successfully with political actors and institutions. The authors draw upon evidence from documents and interviews on how this situation has arisen and how it might be confronted.
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  Are donor countries giving more or less aid?

  International Monetary Fund, 2006

  This working paper looks at how the volume of foreign aid has increased during the last four decades, albeit with interruptions in certain years.
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  The cost of poverty: transaction costs and the struggle to make aid work in the education sector in Tanzania

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2005

  This paper explores transaction costs (TCs) in the Tanzanian education sector.
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  Improving the dynamics of aid: towards more predictable budget support

  World Bank, 2005

  This paper considers approaches towards improving the predictability of aid to low income countries, with a special focus on budget support.
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  Innovative ways of making aid effective in Ghana: tied aid versus direct budgetary support

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005

  This paper considers the government of Ghana and its development partners who have agreed on an aid package dubbed the multi-donor budgetary support (MDBS). This package was created to ensure continuous flow of aid to finance the government’s poverty related expenditures.The authors examine the MDBS, with special focus on how it overcomes the problems of tied aid and other project support.
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  Effective aid and decentralization in Ethiopia

  Mokoro, 2005

  This paper reviews the issues raised and the conclusions reached by a recent education study in Ethiopia. The study considered the concerns surrounding aid and direct budget support (DBS) within this and other sectors of development.
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  Aid modalities in Ethiopia

  Development Cooperation Ireland, 2005

  This study provides an assessment of the changing environment for aid planning and management in Ethiopia during 2002–2004.
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  Does the sustained global demand for oil, gas and minerals mean that Africa can now fund its own MDG financing gap?

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  A new briefing note from the ODI explores ways in which "windfalls" from natural resources such as oil, metals and minerals can be channelled effectively into development processes towards meeting the MDGs. It notes that some African countries may be closer to funding the gap between inflows of aid and investment, and what is needed to meet the MDGs.
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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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  SADC’s restructuring and emerging policies: options for Norwegian support

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2005

  Set within the context of the restructuring of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), this report sets out to determine the options and role of core Norwegian funding for this programme. The report concludes that the restructuring has only been completed in a very formal sense, and there are major shortcomings and weaknesses.

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