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    Policies and strategies for poverty reduction in Norwegian development aid: a review

    Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway, 1999
    Paper provides an overview of Norwegian policiesand strategies for poverty reduction.
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    Will growth halve global poverty by 2015?

    Overseas Development Institute, 2000
    Examines progress towards meeting the international development targets set by OECD/DAC in 1996: to halve the proportion of people living in extreme poverty by 2015.The authors forecast that: In developing countries as a whole, extreme poverty can be more than halved by 2015 provided that currently forecast GNP growth rates (higher than past growth rates) are realised.
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    Aid dependence and the quality of governance: a cross-country empirical analysis

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
    Good governance (in the form of institutions that establish predictable, impartial, and consistently enforced rules for investors) is crucial for the sustained and rapid growth of per capita incomes in poor countries.
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    Harnessing global forces for poor people (Chapter 10, World Development Report)

    World Bank, 2000
    This chapter explores the kinds of global level actions, which can accelerate poverty reduction and help narrow the gaps, (in income, health, and other dimensions), between rich countries and poor.Key areas of international action for poverty reduction:Expanding market access in rich countries for developing countries' goods and servicesReducing the risk of economic crisesEncour
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    Alleviating poverty: role of good governance and constitutional reform

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2000
    This article explores the role that good governance and constitutional reform might play in poverty alleviation in India.Policy recommendations:There is a need for the state to move out of many areas, which it has previously occupied.
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    Rethinking small enterprise development: between poverty and growth

    Centre of African Studies, Edinburgh, 1998
    The current policy fascination with pro-poor growth has important implications for the small enterprise development field.
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    Public opinion and development aid: is there a link?

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 2000
    The current international debate on aid to Africa seems to assume that public opinion matters, i.e. it presupposes the existence of a ‘bottom-up’ relationship between public opinion and aid policy.This paper shows that it is in fact the other way round. It is only possible to understand the relationship between decision-making on aid and public opinion as a ‘top-down’ relationship.
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    Conflict prevention: commission initiative to improve EU’s civilian intervention capacities

    European Union, 2001
    The Commission today adopted a Communication on Conflict Prevention. This document contains a comprehensive review of all the recent initiatives undertaken by the Community to promote peace and stability. The communication proposes a consolidated and realistic approach of the EU to conflict prevention.
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    The sustainability enigma: aid dependency and the phasing out of projects: the case of Swedish aid

    Expert Group on Development Issues, Department for International Development Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 1999
    Using interviews and evaluation materials from twelve Swedish funded projects in Tanzania as cases, this study assesses the relationship between aid dependence and project phase out performance.Findings: project phasing out is complicated by the lack of financial sustainability of the supported institutions.
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    Aid dependence and governance

    Expert Group on Development Issues, Department for International Development Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 2000
    This study analyses the political economy of aid dependence. It argues that large amounts of aid, delivered to countries with weak institutions, create some of the institutional problems that lead to ineffective governance.

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