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  Inflation-targeting in sub-Saharan Africa: why now? Why at all?

  Centre for Development Policy and Research, SOAS, 2008

  As only the second central bank in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Bank of Ghana has adopted an inflation-targeting regime.  This paper argues that this step is wrong and comes at a bad time as:
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  Stock market development in Sub-Saharan Africa: critical issues and challenges

  International Monetary Fund, 2007

  Stock markets can promote growth by enhancing the operations of domestic financial systems. Yet if they do not perform efficiently, stock market development can be detrimental to developing country’s markets given its high cost and poor financial structures. This paper examines the controversial link between stock market development and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
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  Budget support to Ghana: a risk worth taking?

  Overseas Development Institute, 2007

  This policy brief presents a case study of general budget support (GBS) in Ghana. It is argued that, by providing aid as budget support, donors have taken risks and made important contributions to poverty alleviation and governance.
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  The decline in public spending to agriculture: does it matter?

  Oxford Policy Management, 2007

  Public spending on agriculture is now recognised to be an important means of promoting economic growth and alleviating poverty in rural areas. However, this paper reveals that agricultural spending is not being prioritised within current budgets and, in many cases, is actually falling.
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  Understanding the politics of the budget: What drives change in the budget process?

  Department for International Development, UK, 2007

  This briefing note distills the findings of several political analyses of the budget process in developing countries and highlights why a good political understanding of theset processes is important to improve aid effectiveness.
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  Innovative ways of making aid effective in Ghana: tied aid versus direct budgetary support

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005

  This paper considers the government of Ghana and its development partners who have agreed on an aid package dubbed the multi-donor budgetary support (MDBS). This package was created to ensure continuous flow of aid to finance the government’s poverty related expenditures.The authors examine the MDBS, with special focus on how it overcomes the problems of tied aid and other project support.
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  Linking policies and budgets: implementing medium term expenditure frameworks in a PRSP context

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This briefing paper focuses on the effectiveness of Medium Term Expenditure Frameworks (MTEFs) in offering a more practical approach to the implementation of the strategies laid out in the PRSPs (Povery Reduction Strategy Papers). It is based on nine country case studies which investigated the experience of implementing MTEFs in a PRSP context.
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  Nine African budget transparency and participation case studies

  Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2005

  The findings from this study explore budget transparency from the ordinary citizen's perspective. It sheds some light on information required to engage meaningfully with budgetary and other decisions involving public resources from the ordinary citizen's perspective.
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  Civil society, democratisation and foreign aid in Africa

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This paper critically examines the current donor practice of funding civil society organisations as a way to influence govenment policy and to create more citizen involvement in public affairs.
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  Donors and childhood poverty in sub Saharan Africa: approaches and aid mechanisms in Ghana and Tanzania

  Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004

  This paper study examines how selected donors approach poverty affecting children, and how they use aid to tackle child poverty through support to particular activities and through the aid instruments.

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