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  The IMF's Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF): a factsheet

  International Monetary Fund, 2002

  This document outlines the IMF's coverage of the implementation of the PRGF, focussing on its areas of expertise.
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  Key features of IMF poverty reduction and growth facility (PRGF) supported programs

  International Monetary Fund, 2000

  This note discusses how features of the PRGF - supported programs may be incorporated into program design, at the early stages of implementing the PRSP approach. It outlines the areas of expected change and aims to use this list to give clarity to expectations, guide the internal work of mission teams and provide a benchmark to review progress within the IMF.
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  Halving poverty by doubling aid: how well founded is the optimism of the World Bank?

  Kiel Institute of World Economics/Institut für Weltwirtschaft, 2002

  This report constitutes a challenge to the effectiveness of the World Bank's strategy of concentrating, and thereby increasing, aid on countries with 'good' policies.The arguments used against the World Bank policy include:an analysis of the inconsistent relationship between economic growth and levels of aid delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and South Asia, raises considerabl
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  Cornering the market: the World Bank and trade capacity building

  Bretton Woods Project, 2002

  The World Bank is rapidly increasing the amount of resources it dedicates trade-related capacity building (TRCB) in response to both the backlash against it’s more traditional methods of influencing trade policy and as part of its re-positioning as a provider of development knowledge (the 'Knowledge Bank').
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  Responding to the financial crisis: better off without the IMF?: The case for Jamaica

  Finance and Development Research Programme, DFID, 2002

  Looks at the experience of Jamaica in its response to the adverse economic and social effects of the financial crisis in the 1990s.
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  A joint submission to the World Bank and IMF Review of HIPC and Debt Sustainability

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2002

  Urges that a clear link be established between MDGs, the HIPC review, and the sustainability of debt relief. It reccommends a series of steps to mobilise necessary financial flows, and proposes that the World Bank and IMF and their shareholders ought to radically alter the way in which debt relief is calculated and provided.
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  Blinding with science or encouraging debate: how World Bank analysis determines PRSP policies

  Bretton Woods Project, 2002

  This paper argues for a more inclusive approach toward World Bank research and policy analysis, emphasising that NGOs, parliamentarians and other interested parties should focus more attention on the analytical work conducted or commissioned by the World Bank in their countries or sectors which may influence negotiations and financial allocations.Furthermore, recipient countries ought to be al
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  Reducing poverty: is the World Bank's strategy working?

  Panos Institute, London, 2002

  For over 70 countries producing a Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), approved by the World Bank and IMF, is either a condition for getting debt relief, or a condition for receiving concessional loans and some aid.
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  Taken for granted?: US proposals to reform the World Bank's IDA examined

  Bretton Woods Project, 2002

  This report reviews the main debates for and against increasing the grant element of international development assistance (IDA).Those supporting the US proposal to increase the grant element of IDA to 50% agree that grants are a more appropriate way of providing assistance for long-term needs. Grants are advocated as a means to stop debt build up or enhance debt forgiveness.
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  Assistance to the transition economies: were there alternatives? 

  William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan, 2002

  This paper provides an assessment of the policies that were followed within the transition economies and a discussion about the extent to which there were known alternatives that could have resulted in superior outcomes in terms of:GDP growth and other principal performance indicatorsbuilding honest and competent institutions creating a more transparent and less corrupt system of c

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