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  Aid effectiveness and selectivity: integrating multiple objectives into aid allocations

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2003

  This paper surveys recent research on aid and growth and provides an overview of research on inter recipient aid allocation.The paper focuses on the relevance of these issues for poverty efficient aid, defined as a pattern of inter recipient aid allocation which maximises poverty reduction.The paper identifies a range of poverty reducing criteria on which aid allocation or selectivity might
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  Hands off: why international financial institutions must stop drilling, piping and mining

  Friends of the Earth International, 2003

  This report reviews the experience and outcomes of the funding by International Financial Institutions (IFIs) of projects in the extractive industries.
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  Improving the social protection of the urban poor and near-poor in Jordan: the potential of micro-insurance

  Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2001

  This study examines the potential of micro-insurance as an approach to reducing the vulnerability of urban population groups that are difficult for conventional social protection strategies to cover in Jordan.
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  A review of regional strategies addressing poverty

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  This paper reviews the main development strategies that have been pursued in Africa since the 1970s with the aim of stirring a debate that can be helpful in the search for new opportunities for poverty reduction in the region.The paper focuses its attention on the following broad policies:Structural adjustment policies: characterised by a keen interest on the part of internationa
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  The PRSP process in Zambia

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2002

  This paper reviews the experience of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) process in Zambia, which took place between 2000 and 2002.Some of the process’ strengths are:the development of a comprehensive and logical institutional framework for the effective planning and implementation of the PRSPthe existence of a highly proactive and dynamic civil society that seems to be ever
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  DFID Tanzania Country Assistance Plan June 2003 – December 2004

  Department for International Development, UK, 2003

  This document sets out how the UK can support the Tanzania Government in meeting the challenge of delivering poverty reduction outcomes, embedding public and political ownership of the reform process in the run up to 2005 and tackling some of the key risks for poverty reduction in Tanzania. It argues that:Tanzania has developed a credible Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS), now in its thi
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  Rwanda country assistance plan

  Department for International Development, UK, 2003

  This document sets out DFID’s plans for assistance to Rwanda during the period 2003-2006.The current situation in Rwanda includes:continuing regional instabilitya highly vulnerable rural majoritypolitical and social fragility extreme environmental degradationthe highest population density in Africa high levels of inequalityan emerging HIV/AIDS epidemicsevere
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  Malawi: Country Assistance Plan 2003/04 – 2005/06

  Department for International Development, UK, 2003

  This document sets out DFID’s plans for assistance to Malawi during the period 2003-2006. DfID’s activity in Malawi will focus on three core areas:measures to enable sustainable growth and improve livelihoodsbetter service delivery to the poorpro-poor governanceConcrete DfID future actions include:provide budget supportcontribute to harmonised donor approache
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  Ghana: Country Assistance Plan 2003-2006

  Department for International Development, UK, 2003

  This document sets out DFID’s plans for assistance to Ghana based on the objectives of the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy.The main features of the Country Assistance Plan (CAP) are:an analysis of poverty reduction in Ghana, in terms of the potential, the challenges and the possible risksa framework for supporting Ghana in delivering concrete improvements in the lives and well-bein
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  An alternative approach to debt cancellation and new borrowing for Africa

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003

  This paper critically analyses the HIPC Initiative and its effects on debt sustainability and the recipient countries’ capacity to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

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