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  The future of climate policy: the financial sector perspective

  United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, 2005

  The financial sector can play a role in mitigating climate change through investment in areas such as no- or low-emission technologies and carbon emissions trading. However, the time frames of the Kyoto protocol – due to conclude in 2012 – do not provide the certainty that investors need to invest in the necessary medium- to long-term projects.
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  Fiscal policy for poverty reduction, reconstruction, and growth

  United Nations University, 2006

  This document reviews the major areas of fiscal policy, setting out and assessing how thinking around public spending, taxation, and the macroeconomics of fiscal reform have evolved, particularly towards reducing poverty, accelerating growth, and preventing conflict.The authors suggest:aid cannot be effective without a good fiscal system and that the previous aid policies failed because
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  Budgeting for women’s rights: monitoring government budgets for compliance with CEDAW

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2006

  This report adds a landmark to the discourse on the link between human rights standards and government budgets. It elaborates on how budgets and budget policy making processes can be monitored for compliance with human rights standards, in particular with the Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
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  Creating a more efficient financial system : challenges for Bangladesh

  World Bank, 2006

  Bangladesh has embarked on a path to reform its financial system, most prominently by privatising its government-owned banks, the Nationalised Commercial Banks (NCBs).
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  Governance and private investment in the Middle East and North Africa

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2006

  This paper addresses the issue of the low level of private investment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, with special emphasis on the role of governance.
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  Do workers’ remittances promote financial development?

  World Bank, 2006

  Migrant workers’ remittances to developing countries have become the second largest type of flows after foreign direct investment. This paper uses data on workers’ remittance flows to 99 developing countries during 1975-2003 to study the impact of remittances on financial sector development.
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  The choice between income and consumption taxes: a primer

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2006

  This paper lays out the key economic issues involved in deciding whether and how to adopt a consumption tax and to discuss what theory and evidence have told us and could tell us about these issues.The author draws the following conclusions from his analysis:there are several attributes that define a consumption tax and distinguish it from an income tax, although not all of these attrib
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  Sequencing fiscal decentralization

  World Bank, 2006

  This paper looks at how a fiscal decentralisation programme should be sequenced and implemented.The authors argue that the sequencing of decentralisation policies is an important determinant of its success.
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  Country study: an employment-targeted economic programme for South Africa

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006

  At the 2003 Growth and Development Summit, South African President Thabo Mbeki singled out "more jobs, better jobs and decent work for all" as one of the country's key economic challenges. With the pledge to cut the unemployment rate by half by 2014, difficult policy changes are inevitable.
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  What happens when public expenditure is scaled up?: an enquiry into the costs and costeffectiveness of expenditure in phases of expansion

  Overseas Development Institute, 2006

  Using the case studies of primary education, road maintenance and child immunisation, the author asks whether the costs of providing public services in low-income developing countries tend to rise when expenditure on these services increases.

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