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    Private sector participation in child health: a review of World Bank projects, 1993-2002

    World Bank, 2003
    Based on the assumption that the private sector significantly influences child health and nutrition outcomes through both service provision and supply of health related goods, this paper analyses World Bank projects in Health, Nutrition and Population between fiscal years 1993-2002.
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    Can the World Bank and IMF cancel 100% of poor country debts?

    Jubilee Research, 2003
    This report employs financial analysis to argue that both the IMF and the World Bank have enough resources to cancel all the HIPC debt, and argues that they could finance this debt cancellation without jeopardising their normal operations.
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    Extractive industries and sustainable development: an evaluation of World Bank Group experience (volume one: overview)

    Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 2003
    The World Bank Group (WBG) has the potential to improve the contribution of extractive industries (EI) to sustainable development and poverty reduction.
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    Assessing IMF program effectiveness

    International Monetary Fund, 2003
    Short article from IMF Research Bulletin reviewing research on program effectiveness.
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    Coherence in global economic policymaking and cooperation between the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank

    World Trade Organization, 2003
    This WTO paper examines the issues and options for greater coherence between the WTO, IMF and World Bank particularly in reference to the Marrakesh Ministerial Declaration on Coherence which called for the three institutions to develop cooperation between them with the aim of each institution following consistent and mutually supportive policies.Among the authors key points on coherence are:
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    Agriculture policy reform in the ECA transition economies, 1991-2002: an assessment of the World Bank’s approach

    Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 2003
    This desk study evaluates the World Bank’s contribution to policy reform in the agriculture sector of the ECA transition economies, covering the period 1991-2002.Findings:ECSSD’s assistance program has grown substantially. The Bank’s lending and administrative spending are twice the mean for all Bank regions.
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    Should the IMF cease long term lending?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    As a long-term lender to low-income countries, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) also tackles problems of poverty and growth. Should the IMF withdraw from development finance leaving it up to donors and the World Bank, as critics suggest? Is it appropriate for the Fund to return to its traditional role?
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    World Bank and IMF agricultural reforms: contributing to famine?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The focus of the UN summit in Johannesburg in September 2002 was ‘people, planet and prosperity’, yet at the same time, Johannesburg is the staging post for millions of tonnes of UN food aid. About 13 million people in southern Africa face severe food shortages and famine. What are the causes of this crisis and who is responsible?
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    IMF/World Bank Poverty Reduction Strategy: effective, participatory and locally owned?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Is there evidence that the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) is working? Can the PRS lead the least developed countries out of poverty? Are the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) nationally owned and participatory – or are they becoming just another hoop through which poor countries must jump to access funds?
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    Leaving home: the World Bank and forced resettlement

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What are the impoverishment risks involved in involuntary resettlement? How best can governments and the international community deal with the consequences? This study from the University of Arizona and the Universidad de Concepcion in Chile looks at the World Bank’s policy on forced resettlement and makes suggestions as to how these could be changed.

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