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Searching with a thematic focus on Aid and debt, Governance, Poverty

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  Poverty – wellbeing: an orientation, learning and working tool for fighting poverty

  Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2000

  The purpose of this orientation, learning and working tool is to provide an additional bridge between the problems of poverty and the SDC’s PEMT instruments.
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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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  Private sector development: pro-poor, or merely poor, service delivery?

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2002

  Looks at whether the private sector development addresses the challenges faced within pro-poor development, and draws on past experience of privatisation, especially within the context of privatisation.
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  PRSP: beyond the theory: practical experiences and positions of involved civil society organisations

  Bread for the World, 2002

  This report argues that the PRSP process is built on a 'trickle-down' theory, with ‘pro-poor growth’ being put forward as a solution to poverty reduction. The emphasis here, is that countries will strive to create a conducive macro-economic environment for investment, and that the market will take care of the rest.
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  Special allocation for poverty relief infrastructure investment and Job summit projects: an overview

  Project Literacy, 2001

  This paper is a review of the special poverty allocation mechanism that was introduced in South Africa in the wake of the structural adjustment programmes. It sheds light on the problems faced by departments in the delivery of services to the poor, which are seen to be similar across various government departments.
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  Poverty in Pakistan: issues, causes and institutional responses

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2002

  This document represents the ADB's support for the Government of Pakistan's PRSP and puts forward interventions aimed at addressing critical bottlenecks, and promoting growth in sectors or activities that have maximum poverty reduction impact.
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  Human rights approach to poverty reduction strategies: draft guidelines

  United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, 2002

  The paper outlines a set of guidelines produced by the United Nations in collaboration with several organisations for the implementation of a human rights-based approach to poverty reduction strategies The document was compiled by three experts commissioned by the UN, professors Paul Hunt, Manfred Nowak and Siddiq Osmani.
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  Local institutions, poverty and household welfare in Bolivia

  World Bank, 2001

  This paper seeks to establish the extent to which historical factors contribute toward formal governmental systems and their insertion into the overall social organizational context, in terms of basic service provision and poverty reduction.
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  Limits of conditionality in poverty reduction programs

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2002

  The paper focuses on how to optimally design conditionality for poverty reduction when the objectives of the donor and those of the recipient are not perfectly aligned.The authors found 3 important resultsconditionality entails distortions and is responsible for an inefficient allocation of resourcesaid policies should be tailored according to the recipient government's preferences
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  Strengthening the knowledge and information systems of the urban poor (KIS)

  Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2002

  Poor men and women living in urban informal settlements do need knowledge and information to cope with risks and improve their livelihoods, but they sometimes find it hard to access. How do the urban poor obtain information and develop knowledge? Do they get what they require and is it appropriate?

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