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Desk study on the environment in Iraq
United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2003Drawing on information available from multiple sources, including current media, government and NGO reports, this paper provides a preliminary assessment of the most pressing environmental challenges facing those involved in the post-conflict humanitarian relief and reconstruction effort in Iraq.DocumentOperationalising the right to food in Africa
Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2001This report focuses on how to implement the right to food in four countries in Africa (Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia).DocumentUpdate on the financing of PRGF and HIPC operations and the subsidization of post-conflict emergency assistance 2003
International Monetary Fund, 2003This paper provides the regular six-monthly update on the financing of the Fund’s concessional operations and the adequacy of balances in the Reserve Account of the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) Trust.Key points of the report are:Uncommitted loan resources under the PRGF Trust amounted to SDR 3.4 billion as of end-February 2003, which will allow PRGF lending of about SDRDocumentAfrican civil society: coming to terms with globalisation
Foreign Policy Centre, London, 2003This essay argues that NGOs in Africa are blossoming in terms of numbers but this is failing to translate into concerted activities with civil society.DocumentDAC guidelines on strengthening trade capacity for development
OECD Development Co-operation Directorate: DAC Guidelines, 2001These guidelines provide overall policy guidance and a common reference point for the trade, aid, and finance communities on capacity development for trade, putting trade capacity building in the context of comprehensive approaches to development and poverty reduction. They also review and analyse the strategic importance of trade capacity development.DocumentPublic opinion research, global education and development cooperation reform: in search of a virtuous circle
OECD Development Centre, 2002This report compiles public attitudes to international development co-operation.DocumentDo area development projects have a future?
Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2003This paper argues that ADPs have considerable potential to inform PRS and similar processes within this ‘new architecture’ of aid.Increased donor attention to Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) processes and to budgetary support have meant reduced funding for Area Development Projects (ADPs). Does this trend risk throwing the baby out with the bathwater?DocumentRanking the rich: the first annual CGD/FP commitment to development index
Center for Global Development, USA, 2003Foreign Policy and the Center for Global Development have developed a new ranking system that grades the efforts of the 21 richest nations to assist the development of poorer nations.DocumentNew data, new doubts: revisiting “aid, policies, and growth”
Center for Global Development, USA, 2003The authors of this paper revisit and update the data used by Burnside and Dollar in 2000 to check whether their influential conclusion that aid promotes growth in countries with sound policies continues to be supported by more data now available.The authors differentiate their paper from others that test Burnside and Dollar's conclusions by NOT deviating from the Burnside-Dollar methodology.