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U.S. approaches for integration of climate change policies and development assistance
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004The USAID approach to addressing climate change through its development assistance programmes is set out in this paper.DocumentAnti poverty or anti poor?: the Millennium Development Goals and the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger
Focus on the Global South, 2003Following 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.DocumentThe use of science in UK international development policy
UK Parliament, 2004This 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.DocumentTurning off the taps: donor conditionality and water privatisation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
ActionAid International, 2004This 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.DocumentFitting 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, 2004The 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.DocumentNORAD annual report 2003: countries
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004This 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.DocumentNorad annual report 2003: selected areas
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004The 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 iDocumentExplaining African economic growth performance: the case of Ghana
Global Development Network, 2002With 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.DocumentPrivate sector development study: Angola
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004This study summarises the historical, political and economical background in Angola of relevance to the prevailing conditions for private sector development.DocumentFighting poverty through agriculture: Norwegian plan of action for agriculture in Norwegian development policy
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004Under 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.Pages
