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  An assessment of the effects of Norwegian development assistance on poverty reduction and conflict prevention

  Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway, 2001

  This study assesses the impact of Norwegian aid assistance. Recent research into aid effectiveness has shown that aid is most effective in poverty reduction when it is targeted to countries that are very poor and (among those countries) when it is focused on those that have made substantial progress reforming economic institutions and policies.
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  Poverty reduction outcomes in education and health: public expenditure and aid

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper looks at the role of public expenditure programmes in the health and education sectors and their impact on poverty. It argues for a closer donor involvement at the sector level.The evidence reviewed shows that progress towards the MDGs has slowed in some low income countries, notably in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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  NEPAD and the African ‘resource gap’: a critical examination

  Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit, 2002

  The ‘New Partnership for Africa’s Development’ (NEPAD) is the latest attempt by African leaders to formulate an initiative to boost development on the continent, but is it a feasible approach for the continent?
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  African Scholars' Forum for Envisioning Africa: focus on NEPAD

  WSSD Web Site of the Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2002

  Collection of papers from a forum organised by the Heinrich Boell Foundation, together with the Mazingira Institute and the African academy of Sciences.
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  Promoting democratic governance and preventing the recurrence of conflict: the role of the United Nations Development Programme inpost conflict peace-building

  Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, USA, 2001

  This paper assesses the scope and significance of the new development agenda endorsed by UNDP and attempts to gauge the promises and dilemmas of its efforts to consolidate peace by promoting democracy and strengthening good governance, focusing on the experiences of Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala.The paper first scrutinises the emergence of democracy and good governance in the agenda of t
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  Governance and the returns to investment : an empirical investigation

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  There is a strong statistical link between a country's civil liberties and the performance of its aid financed government investment projects.
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  When is foreign aid policy credible? : aid dependence and conditionality

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997

  Disbursements of foreign aid are guided (in part) by the needs of the poor. Anticipating this, recipients have little incentive to improve the welfare of the poor.
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  The Management of British Bilateral Aid and its Effectiveness

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999

  This paper looks at how the Overseas Development Administration (ODA) manages the British bilateral aid programme. It initially examines its strategic approach to aid allocation and use. A major interest is how its aid objectives are translated into spending plans and activities through country programming and organisation and staffing of country delivery of aid.
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  Aid effectiveness: a survey of the recent rmpirical literature

  Papers on Policy Analysis and Assessment, IMF, 1998

  The preponderance of evidence from the empirical literature on aid effectiveness suggests that development aid has not had a significant impact on growth in recipient countries. However there is some evidence that aid has had positive effects when the policy environment has been conducive to growth.
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  Assessing Aid—What Works, What Doesn't, and Why

  Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1998

  Summarizes the findings of a multi-year research program on aid effectiveness. Official Development Assistance has declined by one-third in real terms in the 1990s. There are a number of reasons for this, but one factor has been a sense that aid does not work very well.

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