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    Aid and reform in Africa: lessons from ten case studies

    World Bank, 2001
    This article explores comparatively, the effect and effectiveness of aid in different African countries (10 case studies).More specifically the article investigates the following questions:are there common characteristics of successful and failed reformers that enable us to understand better the political economy of reform?do donors tailor their assistance to different types of coun
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    African poverty at the millennium: causes, complexities, and challenges

    Documents and Reports, 2001
    Paper addresses the following questions:Who are the poor?What are the causes of poverty?Why have both states and markets failed the poor?Why do the poor have inadequate capital?How can we sustain improvements in social indicators?How are household and population dynamics changing?What are the roles for donors and governments in poverty reduction?Conclusio
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    Hirschmanian themes of social learning and change

    World Bank, 2001
    This article positions itself within the context of discussions (inspired by Albert Hirschman) about strategies of unbalanced growth in response to the postwar theories of the “big push,” development planning, and balanced growth.
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    Aid versus trade revisited

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2001
    Examines the (non) equivalence between aid flows and trade preferences as alternative forms of donor assistance in the presence of learning-by-doing externalities in recipient country export production.
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    Insights from the District Development Project, Uganda

    United Nations Capital Development Fund, 1999
    District Development Project (DDP) Pilot was set up to support the efforts of Ugandans to eradicate poverty in rural areas through improved inclusiveness, efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability in the delivery of public goods and services.
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    Growth is good for the poor

    Economic Growth Project, World Bank, 2000
    This paper investigates the link between income of the poor and overall income (per capita GDP).
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    Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook

    Poverty Reduction Strategies and PRSPs, PovertyNet, World Bank, 2001
    Developing or strengthening a poverty reduction strategy is on the agenda of about 70 low-income countries, as a requirement for receiving debt relief under the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative (HIPC) and concessional assistance from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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    Dollars, dialogue and development: an evaluation of Swedish programme aid

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 1999
    Programme aid - that is, import support, debt relief and budget support - has constituted a considerable part of Swedish aid in the 1990's. However, the volumes of programme aid have fallen both in relative and absolute terms during this same period. Few evaluations have assessed how different modalities of programme aid further economic growth and sustainable development.
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    Eliminating world poverty: making globalisation work for the poor

    DFID White Paper on Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalisation Work for the Poor, 2000
    While progress has been made over the years in development, many challenges yet remain in order to make globalisation work for the poor.
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    Africans query World Bank, IMF governance mantra

    Bretton Woods Project, 2001
    This article discusses the recent trip of President James Wolfensohn and IMF Managing Director Horst Koehler to Mali and Tanzania to meet 22 African leaders in February. The theme of their visit was discussions concerning good governance.Ironically, the efforts to listen to civil society groups directly were minimal.

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