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    U.S. approaches for integration of climate change policies and development assistance

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004
    The USAID approach to addressing climate change through its development assistance programmes is set out in this paper.
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    Anti poverty or anti poor?: the Millennium Development Goals and the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger

    Focus on the Global South, 2003
    Following an Asian-Pacific regional forum on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, this dossier contains the discussion paper and the statement that form the output of the Forum as well as a compilation of relevant analyses and experience contributed by some of the participants as well as others in the regional civil society.
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    The use of science in UK international development policy

    UK Parliament, 2004
    This inquiry examines how science and technology are informing decisions on the spending of the aid budget, how research is being used to underpin policy making in international development, and how the UK is supporting science and technology in developing countries.It highlights the importance of technology and science as a tool for development.
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    Turning off the taps: donor conditionality and water privatisation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    ActionAid International, 2004
    This paper examines the long-standing trend of international aid donors to demand that recipient countries privatise basic services and liberalise economies. These demands have been enforced through donor conditionality.
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    Fitting the pieces together: a composite view of government’s strategy to assist the unemployed in South Africa 1994 - 2004

    Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2004
    The objective of this paper is to construct an overview of the South African government’s strategy to assist the unemployed and to examine what shifts and changes this strategy reveals over time.
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    NORAD annual report 2003: countries

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004
    This section of Norad’s annual report details the main activities with Norway’s twenty four partner countries. Norway’s main partners include Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Bangladesh and Nepal. Approximately one third of the funds administered by Norad were channelled through various organizations and their partners in Norway’s twenty four target countries.
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    Norad annual report 2003: selected areas

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004
    The annual report of Norad describes its efforts in relation to nine of the most important areas of Norwegian development cooperation, including, technical advice on health, economic development and trade, human rights and assistance for indigenous peoples, environment, women and gender equality, infrastructure and energy, education, HIV/AID and good governance.Norad’s development cooperation i
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    Explaining African economic growth performance: the case of Ghana

    Global Development Network, 2002
    With positive economic growth since the mid 1980s, Ghana has regularly been put forward as a showcase of success in Africa. What accounts for this growth? This paper examines Ghana’s growth record and the macroeconomic policies that produced this growth.The authors review Ghana’s economic performance and note that Ghana’s overall growth record has one of unevenness.
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    Private sector development study: Angola

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004
    This study summarises the historical, political and economical background in Angola of relevance to the prevailing conditions for private sector development.
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    Fighting poverty through agriculture: Norwegian plan of action for agriculture in Norwegian development policy

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004
    Under this Norwegian strategy, development assistance for agricultural development will be scaled up considerably. The plan sets out 50 measures for promoting agricultural development in developing countries.It takes a holistic approach in which agricultural development is part of a broader strategy for private sector development that considers the entire production chain from field to table.

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