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  Peacebuilding: lessons for Afghanistan

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2002

  This report examines lessons from previous peacebuilding efforts in Afghanistan, and from other countries, in order to highlight issues of central relevance for the present phase of peacebuilding and economic recovery.The report consists of two papers commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It argues that the most promising strategy is to strengthen national institutions.
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  Chasing shadows: re-imagining finance for development

  Jubilee Research, 2002

  Starting from the premise that finance is not about money, but about the relationships among people, states, markets and natural environment, this report provides three key-features so that finance can become a “real” tool for development.The paper warns that:in order to achieve the objectives of global security and meeting basic human development needs, the imbalance between free marke
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  Extractive Sectors and the Poor

  Oxfam, 2001

  This paper examines how states that rely on oil and mineral exports address the concerns of the poor. Its central finding is that oil and mineral dependence are strongly associated with unusually bad conditions for the poor.
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  The evolution of central banking

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  What have we learned about central banks? The principal factors affecting central bank autonomy in the past two centuries have been prevailing political conditions, a laissez faire environment, and the exchange rate regime (whether fixed or floating).Institutions we know as central banks emerged or were established as commercial banks or government banks.

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