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  Business services in the Globalizing African economies

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Discusses the role of business services in the economy in general and especially in the low-income African economies. At the global level large transnational business service firms are developing global service networks linking the world’s large cities together and serving especially the large transnational companies, but apparently largely by-passing Africa.
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  Making Adjustment Work for the Poor

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  Many developing countries are engaged in structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) sponsored by the IMF and World Bank.
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  Politics and poverty: a background paper for the World Development Report 2000/1

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  Report is a synthesis of the conclusions of a research project on the responsiveness of political systems to poverty reduction prepared for DFIDPolicy issues include: Democracy has differential outcomes for the poorStates create and shape the political opportunities for the poorThere is no reason to expect that decentralisation will be pro-poorThere is a wide range of possib
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  UNDP Poverty Report 2000: Overcoming Human Poverty

  Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 2000

  Argues that a new global strategy against poverty needs to be mounted - with more resources, a sharper focus and a stronger commitment. Based on commitments made at the 1995 World Summit for Social Development, developing countries are being encouraged to launch full-scale campaigns against poverty.
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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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  Attacking Poverty: World Development Report 2000/2001

  World Development Report, World Bank, 2000

  The report builds on the view that poverty means not only low incomes and low consumption but also lack of education and poor nutrition and health.
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  Poverty reduction strategies: a part for the poor?

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2000

  The paper highlights the lessons learnt from previous participatory policy projects that the author considers need to be heeded if the PSRP approach is to live up to its ambitious rhetoric.
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  International NGOs: networking, information flows and learning

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2000

  International non-government organisations (INGOs) are increasingly regarded as important in their capacity to influence global policy on development issues such as poverty alleviation, sustainable development, and human rights.
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  SAPRIN challenges World Bank on failure of adjustment programs

  Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network, 2000

  This article emphasises the extent to which poverty, inequality and human suffering have increased in countries implementing the adjustment programs, that the international financial institutions (IFIs) had required as a condition for continued access to foreign capital.Conclusions:Designed to open and restructure economies on behalf of international investors, adjustment program
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  The role of the IMF: a guide to the reports

  International Labour Organization, 2000

  Many of the discussions on a new international financial architecture that were spawned by the east Asian crisis have dealt with the future role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

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