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  Debt relief and poverty reduction: meeting the challenge

  Oxfam, 1999

  For almost two decades unsustainable debt has undermined human development in many of the world's poorest countries. It remains a profound threat to the efforts of Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs) to achieve the international development targets set for the year 2015. This paper is intended as a contribution to the next phase of reform of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative.
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  Contract enforcement in transition

  Global Development Network, 2000

  Looks at the central issue in transition – developing contract enforcement institutions. In the world of thin markets and immature legal systems, market failure arises due to contracting problems.
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  Poverty, growth and inequity in Nigeria: a case study

  African Economic Research Consortium, 2000

  This article explores a study into poverty in Nigeria.Resulting poverty profile:male-headed households contribute over 80% to the three measures of poverty and female-headed households contribute 5-16% (keeping in mind the small size of the female sample noted above) The contribution to poverty tends to be higher in the north than in the south; while the contribution to pove
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  PRS: poverty reduction or public relations strategies?

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2000

  As a response to the criticisms from campaigning groups and NGOs throughout the world, the Boards of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund commissioned the 1999 Fundamental Review of the HIPC Initiative.
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  Year 2000 country profile: the status of Tanzania with the IMF and the World Bank

  Globalization Challenge Initiative, 2000

  Globalization Challenge Initiative (GCI) publishes the SAP Information Alert Series in order to promote informed debate about IMF and World Bank-financed operations, including the potential political, economic, social and environmental consequences of sectoral and strucural adjustment programs.
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  Aid, exports and growth in Ghana

  Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2001

  A number of recent cross-country studies have revitalised the debate on the effectiveness of aid. While there is mounting evidence that aid does contribute to growth, there is some dispute as to whether good policy is a necessary condition for aid effectiveness.This paper is a contribution to the literature, providing a time series study of Ghana.
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  Racing to the bottom?: foreign investment and air quality in developing countries

  New Ideas in Pollution Regulation, World Bank, 2000

  This article looks at whether globalisation could trigger an environmental "race to the bottom", in which competition for investment and jobs relentlessly degrade environmental standards. The "race to the bottom" theory is tested by examining firstly, air quality data in industrialised countries and selected developing countries (China, Mexico, Brazil).
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  IMF structural conditionality: how much is too much?

  Institute for International Economics, USA, 2001

  This article discusses the role of structural policies in IMF-supported adjustment programs. The article looks at ways the IMF can simplify conditionality, in order to make it more effective.The article outlines various approaches to streamlining fund structural policy conditionality:structural pre-conditions.
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  Structural Adjustment for the IMF: options for reforming the IMF's governance structure

  Bretton Woods Project, 2001

  This article outlines the various forces shaping change at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and recommends various changes within the IMF.The first force springs from pressure in increasing the IMF's surveillance function, giving it new responsibilities to monitor and advise governments on financial sector restructuring and enabling it to operate as a quasi-lender of last resort.The sec
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  Polices to roll-back the state and privatise? [PRSPs]

  World Development Movement, 2001

  Short paper reviewing experience with PRSPs, based on an examination of four PRSPs and twelve interim documents, along with comments made by civil society groups from developing countries.Findings include: across highly indebted poor countries, civil society groups are unsatisfied with the extent of public involvement in drawing up the strategy papers.

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