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  Directing EU policy towards poverty eradication: from commitments to targets to results

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2002

  This paper examines the efforts of European institutions to redirect development policies to assist people living in poverty. These efforts are assessed within the international context of new ideas about how poverty eradication can best be achieved.
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  Roundtables on Latin American middle-income country experience: Lessons and implications

  World Bank Publications, 2002

  The International IDEA, the World Bank and the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES) have co-operated on a series of 'national dialogue' round tables in Latin America, and the conclusions of these round table meetings are summarised in this new jointly-published report.
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  Results-based management and accountability for enhanced aid effectiveness

  Canadian International Development Agency, 2002

  This paper was produced as part of a set of studies on the special challenges of managing for results and accountability in CIDA when engaging in capacity development or in program-based approaches to development such as SWAps (Sector-Wide Approaches).The document begins with a general discussion of results based management (RBM) and accountability issues in CIDA.
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  Remittances and other financial flows to developing countries

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 2002

  This paper examines the flows of migrants' remittances in relation to other financial flows to developing countries. Since remittances by unofficial channels by all estimates are significant, the remittance amounts reported here are quite conservative. Official estimates of migrants’ remittances are in the order of US$ 100 billion annually, some 60 percent of which go to developing countries.
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  Energy for the poor: underpinning the millennium development goals

  Department for International Development, UK, 2002

  This document highlights some of the ways in which access to clean, efficient energy services can tackle poverty.Lack of access to adequate, affordable, reliable, safe and environmentally benign energy is a severe constraint on development. Two billion people lack clean, safe cooking fuels and must depend on traditional biomass sources.
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  Measuring the performance of EC development cooperation: lessons from the experiences of international development agencies

  Department for International Development, UK, 2002

  This study identifies the scope and nature of performance measurement systems used by some of the major development agencies in order to contribute to the debate on performance indicators for EC development cooperation.This study offers several suggestions that the EC might wish to explore.
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  HIV and conflict: a double emergency

  Save the Children Fund, 2002

  This report reflects the International Save the Children Alliance’s experience of HIV/AIDS and its effects on young people in conflict situations around the world.In war, HIV/AIDS spreads rapidly as a result of sexual bartering, sexual violence, low awareness about HIV, and the breakdown of vital services in health and education. In conflict situations, young people are most at risk.
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  Death on the doorstep of the summit

  Oxfam, 2002

  The food crisis has many causes but the most significant according to this report, is the failure of agricultural policies.The paper asks why, after years of World Bank and IMF designed agricultural sector reforms, do Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique face chronic food insecurity.
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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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  The quality of aid: towards an agenda for more effective international development co-operation

  Christian Aid, 2000

  This report brings together the main findings and recommendations from three case studies on the quality of British and European Community (EC) aid to India, Ethiopia and Mozambique.The case studies demonstrated thatthe EC aid programme is showing extremely worrying trends of shifting funding away from the poorest countries in favour of middle income countriesinvestment in the socia

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