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  Funding political parties in emerging African democracies: What role for Norway?

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2002

  This report addresses the problem of foreign funding of political parties in newly democratised African states. First, it identifies some problems associated with the development of political parties in Africa and indicates how funding may contribute to resolving these problems.
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  The impact of U.S. democracy and governance assistance in Africa: Benin case study

  Center on Democratic Performance, Binghamton, 2002

  This paper examines what effect, positive or negative, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) support has had on democratic development in Benin, a key country in the development of democracy in Africa. The paper also presents some thoughts on broader issues concerning the efficacy of democracy assistance.
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  The impact of aid and external debt on growth and investment

  Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2002

  Additionality is an important issue of the HIPC Initiative.
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  Improving the governance of European foreign aid

  Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, USA, 2002

  The necessary overhaul of European foreign aid is a core dimension of the reform of European governance. Yet, the constitutional convention on the future of the European Union established in 2002 hardly addresses it.
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  Democracy, regime stability, and growth

  Department of Economics, Stockholm University, 2002

  This study argues that a weak relation between democracy and economic growth found in previous studies is due to the neglect of the increase of stability of institutions over time, and the interaction of this stability with the type of political regime.
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  Crisis in Southern Africa

  Oxfam, 2002

  An immediate intervention of international financial institutions and governments is required in order to avoid that nearly 13 million people in Southern Africa die from hunger.The causes of famine are complex and vary from country to country.
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  Regional overview of the impact of failures of accountability on poor people

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2002

  It has been argued that good governance is an integral element in the creation of the enabling environment of peace, security, the rule of law, legitimacy and stability, in which sustainable human development can be promoted.
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  Evaluation of EC support to the education sector in ACP countries: synthesis report

  European Union, 2002

  This document describes the results of a desk based and field visit study that explored EC policy and funding for education in ACP countries. The authors provide an overview of education development goals and the history of allocation to education of ODA.
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  Partnerships between ministries of education and international funding and technical assistance agencies

  Association for the Development of Education in Africa, 2002

  This paper tracks the development of the sector wide approach to education in Mozambique and notes the relative success in achieving genuine partnership between international organisations and government.The experience in Mozambique has demonstrated that the factors or conditions that seem to facilitate partnership, include:an understanding of the complexity of the concept of partnershi
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  Voices from the Southern Civil Societies: interplay of national and global contexts in the performance of civil society organisations in the South

  Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, 2002

  This study was carried out on behalf of the Department for International Development Cooperation in the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

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