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External debt sustainability in HIPC: completion point countries
International Monetary Fund, 2004This paper reviews policy and institutional frameworks, debt management capacity, export structures, and fiscal revenue mobilisation in HIPC completion point countries.In comparison with other HIPC countries, completion point countries generally enjoy better policy and institutional frameworks and stronger debt management capacity.The paper shows that:while comparing favourably withDocumentExploring the role of development cooperation agencies in corporate responsibility
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004The paper examines what donors are doing to promote and enable corporate responsibility. It presents findings from a conference held in March 2004.DocumentPolicy (in) coherence in European Union support to developing countries: a three country case study
ActionAid International, 2003What is the impact of a range of EU policies on poor people in Bangladesh, Brazil and Kenya? This paper examines key policy areas (including trade, aid, agricultural policies and support to Foreign Direct Investment) to assess the coherence of EU policy in supporting development.DocumentTowards a ten year review: synthesis report on implementation of South African government programmes
Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003This review sets out to assess the extent to which the new democratic dispensation since 1994 has redirected the purpose and content of government policy and seeks to describe the impact of these changes on South African society.DocumentForeign direct investment for development: maximising benefits, minimising costs
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2002The benefits of foreign direct investment (FDI) do not accrue automatically and evenly across countries, sectors and local communities. The paper argues that as FDI significantly overshadows official aid, it is imperative to make FDI drive development.DocumentFinancing development: time for a new approach?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003Why has aid failed to achieve development? Should other forms of financing for development (FfD) be emphasised instead for narrowing the wealth and income gaps between developing and developed countries?DocumentLevel playing field? Making world trade work for all
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003The poorest countries are small players in world trade. The combined exports of the 48 least developed countries (LDCs) accounted for only 0.35 per cent of world trade in 1995. Can trade agreements be made to work better for LDCs? Can technical advice improve the negotiating capacity of LDCs?DocumentCourting capital. What it will take to boost foreign investors' confidence in sub-Saharan Africa
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Without investment by foreign companies (foreign direct investment, or FDI) there is a real danger that countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) will fail to become internationally competitive, and will remain at the margins of the world economy. Only a few countries in sub-Saharan Africa have been successful in attracting foreign investment.DocumentFar from home: do foreign investors import higher standards of governance in transition economies?
Social Science Research Network, 2002This paper argues that while a number of recent studies have shown that corruption inhibits foreign direct investment (FDI), comparatively little attention has been given to the behavior of those who have invested in corrupt countries.DocumentGlobal Development Finance 2003: striving for stability in development finance
World Bank, 2003Annual review of recent trends in and prospects for financial flows to developing countries.Pages