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  Implementing DFID’s conditionality policy: a how-to note

  Department for International Development, UK, 2006

  On 2 March 2005 Hilary Benn launched the UK policy paper 'Partnerships for poverty reduction: rethinking conditionality'.
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  Politics and poverty reduction strategies: lessons from Latin American HIPCs

  Overseas Development Institute, 2006

  This paper addresses the perception that poverty reduction strategy (PRS) processes in Latin America and the Caribbean have not grappled effectively with politics, and have not engaged successfully with political actors and institutions. The authors draw upon evidence from documents and interviews on how this situation has arisen and how it might be confronted.
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  Domestic taxes and international trade: some evidence

  International Monetary Fund, 2006

  As explicit taxes on international trade have diminished, the potential effects of domestic taxes on international trade have become more apparent and controversial. Yet, the effects on trade performance of corporate taxes and the value-added tax (VAT) have so far received little empirical attention.
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  Growth, initial conditions, law and speed of privatisation in transition countries: 11 years later

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2006

  There is an existing body of literature on what determines success in the transition of Communist countries to a market economy. However, this paper revisits the accepted conclusions that the faster post-Communist countries liberalise, the better. It asks: "does the evidence support shock therapy or gradualism".
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  Economic growth and financial depth: is the relationship extinct already?

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005

  Although the relationship between financial depth and growth rates has become firmly entrenched in the empirical literature, studies that question the strength of the empirical results are becoming more frequent. This paper re-examines the core cross-country panel results that established the growth-finance relationship.
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  Using social transfers to improve human development

  Department for International Development, UK, 2006

  Scaling up investment in service provision and quality is necessary, but is not sufficient to achieve universal access to health and education services. Specific policies to boost demand and expand equitable access to quality health and education services are also required.
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  The macroeconomics of remittances: the case of Tajikistan

  International Monetary Fund, 2006

  Labour migration and associated remittances have been a largely unexpected result of the transition of Tajikistan to a market economy. Against a background of economic instability and civil distress, migration from Tajikistan and the consequent remittances have been unprecedented in their magnitude and economic impact, with flows of remittances reaching around 50% of GDP.
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  China's fiscal system: a work in progress

  International Studies Programmme, Georgia State University, 2005

  This paper argues that unless China begins to tackle more systematically the serious problems that have emerged in the finances of its various systems of sub-national government, the problems caused by the current unsatisfactory system will increasingly distort resource allocation, increase distributional tensions and slow down the growth of the Chinese economy.The paper:discusses the s
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  Financial regulations in developing countries: can they effectively limit the impact of capital account volatility?

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2005

  After more than a decade of financial sector liberalisation, both of domestic markets and of international financial transactions , policymakers in many developing countries remain concerned about the effects that large and highly volatile capital flows have on their financial systems.This paper identifies two alternative forms of prudential regulation: those formed by formed by regulations that d
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  Preliminary overview of the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean

  United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2005

  This briefing of an annual publication includes official country figures for Latin America and an analysis of developments in the region's economy in 2005 and projections for 2006.The report outlines how the Latin American and Caribbean economy grew by 4.3% in 2005, which represents the third consecutive year of growth in the region. Per capita GDP is estimated to have risen by about 3%.

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