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  Using ODA to promote private investment for development: policy guidance for donors

  Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2006

  This report provides guidance to members of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) on using ODA more effectively to mobilise private investment for development (investment-enhancing ODA).
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  Evaluation of general budget support: synthesis report

  DAC Network on Development Evaluation, 2006

  OECD donor countries now channel about US$ 5 billion (some 5 per cent of their aid) directly to the budgets of developing country governments.This report reflects findings from an evaluation conducted by the OECD DAC to assess to what extent, and under what circumstances, General Budget Support (GBS) is relevant, efficient and effective for achieving sustainable impacts on poverty reduction and g
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  Macroeconomic challenges of scaling up aid to Africa: a checklist for practitioners

  International Monetary Fund, 2006

  This handbook is intended as a practical guide for assessing the macroeconomic implications and challenges associated with a significant scaling up of aid to African countries.
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  Tax policies to promote private charitable giving in DAC countries

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2006

  Almost no attention has been paid to private overseas giving, by individuals, universities, foundations, and corporations. Yet private giving is significant—as much as $15.5 billion/year, compared to more than $60 billion/year in public giving—and is in many ways an outcome of public policy.
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  Community participation in social funds in Malawi and Zambia

  Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis, 2006

  The paper examines community participation in social funds projects in Malawi and Zambia, and at the participatory processes through which the funds are dispersed.The authors find that:the Zambia and Malawi social funds have been able to implement a number of sub-projects that have spread resources across the respective countries through community-based demand driven models.while th
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  Using social transfers to improve human development

  Department for International Development, UK, 2006

  Scaling up investment in service provision and quality is necessary, but is not sufficient to achieve universal access to health and education services. Specific policies to boost demand and expand equitable access to quality health and education services are also required.
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  Aid effectiveness: can aid agencies be smarter than the invisible hand?

  Public Policy for the Private Sector [World Bank], 2005

  Private financial flows such as foreign direct investment seem to encourage economic growth and relieve poverty in part because they create excellent incentives for transferring know-how and in part because they are subject to a stern market test that ensures they are allocated and monitored carefully.
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  What can the European Central Bank learn from Africa?

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005

  The CFA Franc Zone in former French colonies of West Africa is the world’s oldest and most robust multinational single currency area.
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  Pity the Finance Minister: issues in managing a substantial scaling up of aid flows

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2005

  This paper is based on the rationale that substantially scaling up of aid flows will require development partners to address many issues, including the impact of higher aid flows on the competitiveness of aid recipients; the management of fiscal and monetary policy; the delivery of public services; behavioral incentives; and the rate of growth of the economy.
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  Managing aid; practices of DAC member countries

  OECD Development Co-operation Directorate: DAC Guidelines and Reference Series, 2005

  This report aims to expand knowledge on the various practices and structures adopted by the 22 member countries of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC)1 for managing their foreign assistance to developing and transition countries. It highlights relevant work within the DAC as well as good practices or noteworthy features of particular DAC member countries’ programmes.

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