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  MDGs, taxpayers and aid effectiveness

  OECD Development Centre, 2005

  This paper argues that taxpayers in developed countries currently lack awareness of poverty alleviation initiatives other than short-term humanitarian relief, and that, to garner their support in this area, more resources need to be devoted to addressing this gap in knowledge. It argues that if the public are better informed they will demand accountability, and will be less willing for aid budg
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  Tanzania and the Millennium Development Goal

  African Forum and Network on Debt and Development, 2005

  Five years into the MDGs programme, this study assesses the progress which Tanzania has made, particularly regarding the goal of poverty reduction.
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  SADC’s restructuring and emerging policies: options for Norwegian support

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2005

  Set within the context of the restructuring of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), this report sets out to determine the options and role of core Norwegian funding for this programme. The report concludes that the restructuring has only been completed in a very formal sense, and there are major shortcomings and weaknesses.
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  The "Pay Your Taxes" debate: perspectives on corporate taxation and social responsibility in the Chilean mining industry

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005

  In the context of foreign copper mining companies in Chile, this document explores unethical corporate practices such as subcontracting, non-payment of taxes, corporate political influence, transfer pricing and intracorporate financial flows, which undermine social, sustainable and economic development.It consists of two papers which present different opinions and points of view.
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  Does general budget support work?: evidence from Tanzania

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  Direct financial support to a country’s budget is a long-established form of aid – as old as development assistance itself. But the last five years have witnessed an important development – the rapid growth of budget-support operations informed by a new and distinctive aid philosophy emphasising flexible funding for country led poverty reduction efforts.
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  Malawi and the African peer review mechanism: a review of national readiness and recommendations for participation

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2004

  This report is intended to assist Malawi in preparing for peer review.
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  BRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack: gender and budgets

  BRIDGE, 2003

  This Cutting Edge pack from BRIDGE outlines the concept and practices of gender-responsive budgetting, and examines strategies for improvement. The pack highlights the deficiencies of non-gender responsive budgeting, such as assuming that economic actors are genderless, classless, ageless, and without social , historical, and geographic situation.
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  G8 Communique: more and better aid?

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2005

  This brief assesses the G8 Communique of the 2005 summit.
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  Gendered implications of tax reform in Latin America: Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Jamaica

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005

  In the context of Latin American and Caribbean countries, this paper proposes that the most effective means for reducing class- and gender-based poverty and inequality is citizenship-based entitlements to basic (i.e.
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  Direct budget support, disbursement mechanisms and predictability

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2005

  This paper presents experiences with graduated response mechanisms of direct budget support. Such mechanisms allow a donor to graduate their reactions if the recipient country fails to fulfil conditions (i.e. delay or suspend payments or even terminate the agreement altogether).

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