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    What can be done for China’s temporary urban population?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    China’s internal passport system – known as ‘Hukou’ – prevents permanent migration to urban areas.  Some 120 million unofficial urban residents are denied access to many services. In rural areas land requisition policies and lack of secure tenure reduce agricultural production, create resentment and help drive more families to the cities.
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    After the Paris Declaration: taking on the issue of power

    Wiley InterScience, 2008
    The author of this paper asserts that the new approach to assisting developing countries inspired by the Paris Declaration emphasises greater recipient control over the funds provided - thus confining donors’influence to upstream points in the policy process, where political aspects of development co-operation become more important.
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    Mission improbable: does petroleum-related aid address corruption in resource-rich countries?

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2008
    Petroleum-related aid encompasses activities aiming to improve the development impact of petroleum resources, i.e. oil and gas. This study explores the petroleum-related aid activities of three bilateral donors – Norad, CIDA and USAID – with a view to assessing their likely effect on the ‘resource curse’ more generally, and on corruption specifically.
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    Report on the use of country systems in public financial management

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2008
    A robust public financial management (PFM) system is vital to a country’s development efforts and to the effectiveness of the aid funds that support those efforts. Three years ago, the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness gave new prominence to this idea, as partner countries committed to strengthen their PFM systems and donors committed to use  those systems.
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    Evaluation of the implementation of the Paris Declaration

    United Nations Development Group, 2008
    This report synthesises the results of the first evaluation of the early implementation of the Paris Declaration, from March 2005 to late 2007. The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness is now recognised as a landmark international agreement aimed at improving the quality of aid and its impact on development.
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    Aid effectiveness after Accra: how to reform the ‘Paris agenda’

    Overseas Development Institute, 2008
    In the context of the forthcoming Third High Level Forum in Accra, Ghana in September 2008, this paper looks at the future of aid effectiveness beyond September. It also looks at key points in reforming the Paris agenda.
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    The environment and poverty times

    Arendal Maps & Graphics Library, UNEP/GRID, 2008
    The paper features a collection of short articles that focus on the complex links between environment and poverty reduction. The articles discuss how natural resources can contribute to economic growth that also benefits the poor.
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    Innovative funding for women’s organisations

    Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2008
    Funding support for women’s organisations and for non-governmental organisations working to achieve gender equality is an important element in many donors strategies. These organisations often have detailed knowledge of social and cultural barriers to gender equality. They can also recognise and address the impact of gender inequalities at local, national and international level.
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    Rapid urbanization, employment crisis and poverty in African LDCs: a new development strategy and aid policy

    Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2008
    Rapid urbanisation is a fact of life even in the least developed countries where the lion’s share of the population presently lives in rural areas and will continue to do so for decades to come. This paper examines the causes, consequences and policy implications of the ongoing urbanisation in the African less developed countries (LDCs).
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    Ownership with adjectives

    Fride, 2008
    This synthesis report looks into the impact of donor harmonisation on democratisation processes in recipient countries. It is based on case studies in Mali, Nicaragua, Peru and Vietnam, and explores the political implications of the aid effectiveness agenda and particularly of the new aid modalities.

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