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    The ABC of the PRSP

    Bretton Woods Project, 2000
    This briefing paper tries to answer the following questions:What is the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP)?How does the PRSP relate to WB and IMF lending?What is the connection between the PRSP and the HIPC Debt Initiative?What does ownership mean?Is there a tension between qualifying for debt relief and allowing time to develop a good PRSP?What will an interim PRS
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    Adjustment debate leaves World Bank behind

    Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network, 2000
    The article explores the activities of the Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Network (SAPRIN). The main role of the SAPRIN was to to legitimize a role for citizens in economic decisionmaking and to help them mobilize to play that role effectively.
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    Economists and power at the World Bank

    Development Information Update, 2000
    This article discusses some of the conflicts existing between the different economic approaches within multilateral organisations such as the World Bank (WB) and, to a lesser degree, the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The article explores the decisive schools of thought that play a central role in WB initiatives.
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    The sustainability enigma: aid dependency and the phasing out of projects: the case of Swedish aid

    Expert Group on Development Issues, Department for International Development Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 1999
    Using interviews and evaluation materials from twelve Swedish funded projects in Tanzania as cases, this study assesses the relationship between aid dependence and project phase out performance.Findings: project phasing out is complicated by the lack of financial sustainability of the supported institutions.
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    The fall and recovery of the Cuban economy in the 1990s: mirage or reality

    International Monetary Fund, 2001
    The collapse of the Cuban economy following the cessation of Soviet assistance gave way to a strong recovery in 1994-1996.The author proposes three possible explanations for this recovery:that it never took placethat it reflected a surge in productivity resulting from stabilisation and liberalisation in 1993 - 1994that it resulted from a favorable aggregate demand shockT
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    Structural adjustment and intersectoral shifts in Tanzania: a computable general equilibrium analysis

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001
    This study analyzes the effect of stabilization and structural adjustment policies on overall economic growth, sectoral performance, welfare,and income distribution in Tanzania. It reviews policy programs implemented and economic performance achieved since the beginning of the reforms, highlighting economic fluctuations under changing political conditions.
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    DAC recommendation on untying official development assistance to the least developed countries

    Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2001
    The recommendation outlines the shared intentions of DAC members to:untie their ODA to the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to the greatest extent possiblepromote and sustain adequate flows of ODA in terms of quality, volume and direction, in particular to the LDCs, and ensure that ODA to the LDCs will not decline over time as a result of the implementation of the recommendationach
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    What good can debt relief and PRSP do?: the case of Zambia

    Bread for the World, 2001
    This web resource looks into the Zambia's position of debt and the influence PRSPs and associated debt relief is having on Zambia.
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    Conditionality in fund-supported programs: overview

    International Monetary Fund, 2001
    This article briefly discusses the IMF's tool to reform the international financial system, conditionality.The article emphasises the importance of focusing conditionality such that it concentrates on national ownership.
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    The rebirth, or second coming of adjustment lending

    Globalization Challenge Initiative, 2001
    The article discusses the renaming, repackaging and expanding of adjustment lending. The article emphasises that it is not only the volume of adjustment lending that is expanding but also the scope of lending.The article:explores the differences between the approaches of old style adjustment and new style adjustment (i.e.

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