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Searching with a thematic focus on Aid and debt, Poverty in Uganda

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  Projects – no way to deliver development?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  The conventional project based approach is a tried-and-tested, convenient and simple mechanism for the transfer of aid resources. However, development practitioners are increasingly realising that implementing a project is not an effective way to address the needs of poor people.
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  Resilience and high performance amidst conflict, epidemics and extreme poverty : the Lacor Hospital, northern Uganda

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2004

  This case study describes how the Lacor hospital has grown into a 474-bed centre of medical excellence, setting an example for the rest of the health system and helping to build health care capacity for the whole country.
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  Transformative social protection

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  This paper, published by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), discusses the concept of social protection and the ways in which social protection policy has worked in practice, drawing on examples from Uganda.It claims that social protection has been popularly perceived as “social welfare programmes for poor countries”, consisting of costly targeted transfers to economically inac
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  Infant mortality in Uganda: determinants, trends, and the Millenium Development Goals

  Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2004

  This paper argues, that despite positive strides in Uganda's economic growth, there are concerns that other indicators of well-being are not improving at the same rate as incomes.This paper looks at the infant mortality rate (IMR) and uses the Uganda Demographic and Health Surveys to construct a national time series for infant mortality from 1974 to 1999.
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  The informal economy: fact finding study

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2004

  This study provides an overview of the characteristics of the informal economy in developing countries, identifies reasons for the significance of the informal economy, and provides recommendations for SIDA on how to address the issues raised through its development programmes.The paper emphasises that the informal economy needs to be better understood, by both governments and donors, because i
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  HIPC debt relief: myths and reality

  Forum on Debt and Development, 2004

  This book draws links between the HIPC Initiative and the Millennium Development Goals, and argues that debt relief will only provide a fraction of the funds required for poverty reduction and to avoid another build-up of unsustainable debt. It also presents an analysis of the successes and failures of the HIPC Initiative and some suggestions of what needs to be done.
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  Review of Nordic monitoring of the World Bank and IMF support to the PRSP process

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2003

  This report details the first joint Nordic monitoring of the World Bank and IMF support to the PRSP process in seven countries: Bolivia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia.
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  Politics and the PRSP approach: synthesis paper

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This paper synthesises findings from four country (Bolivia, Georgia, Uganda & Vietnam) case studies on the political dimensions of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) approach.The authors argue that there are two contrasting visions to the approach behind the PRSP process as follows:The first being that it is an approach offering a potentially transformative agenda of pro-poor r
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  Rethinking participation: questions for civil society about the limits of participation in PRSPs

  ActionAid International, 2004

  This discussion paper aims to inform and provoke discussion among civil society organisations engaged in PRSP consultations.It argues that there are serious limitations and constraints to the process as it currently exists, and that the IMF and the World Bank’s focus on poverty is limited to ameliorating the social damage done by the negative impacts of their structural adjustment policies and
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  The politics of poverty: aid in the new cold war

  Christian Aid, 2004

  This report sets out mistakes that have been made in the past in relation to the politicisation of aid. Based on case studies in Afghanistan and Uganda, it also shows how they are being repeated. The authors argue that the growing politicisation of aid threatens to obscure the goal of poverty reduction.

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