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  Aiding or abetting?: dilemmas of foreign aid and political instability in the Melanesian Pacific

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2005

  Despite receiving high volumes of aid, many of the goals of aid to the Melanesian Pacific countries remain unmet.
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  Current procedures and policies dominating aid: building strong relationships and enabling NGOs meet their stated aims?

  NGO Practice, 2005

  Based on a 4 years of field research in Uganda, this report evaluates the relationship between NGOs and donor agencies.
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  Sowing and reaping: institutional quality and project outcomes in developing countries

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2005

  Focusing on project-level evidence, this paper introduces microeconomic evidence on the factors that make aid-funded projects in developing countries successful.The main findings of the study are:existence of high-quality institutions in a recipient country raises the probability that aid will be used effectively there is also some evidence that geography matters, but location in Su
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  Working together: assessing Public–Private Partnerships in Africa

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2005

  This report examines the potential of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Africa. In order to do so the report uses eight case studies of PPPs in toll roads, ports, prisons, telecommunications, eco-tourism and water and electricity provision.
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  Dirty aid, dirty water: the UK government's push to privatise water and sanitation in poor countries

  World Development Movement, 2005

  The paper draws attention to the fact that the UK Government is using taxpayers money in a push to privatise water and sanitation in developing countries.
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  Development effectiveness in fragile states: spillovers and turnarounds

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2004

  This papers examines aid effectiveness in fragile states with particularly weak policies and institutions.
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  Fragile states: defining difficult environments for poverty reduction

  Department for International Development, UK, 2004

  This paper, published by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), presents a working definition of difficult environments that is both linked to the wider debate about fragile states but at the same time focuses the challenge on donor-recipient relationships for poverty reduction.
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  From aid effectiveness to development effectiveness: strategy and policy coherence in fragile states

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  The impact of non-aid policies on development outcomes is gaining ever-higher priority, with an emphasis on securing coherence across government departments. Policy coherence is particularly important in relation to fragile states.
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  Why we need to work more effectively in fragile states

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This paper lays out DfID’s commitment to working more effectively in fragile states.
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  Harmonisation and alignment in fragile states

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  The paper focuses on donor behaviour and aid effectiveness as articulated particularly in the Rome agenda on harmonisation and alignment, in the context of fragile states.

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