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  The IMF: wrong diagnosis, wrong medicine

  Oxfam, 1999

  Prepared as part of Oxfam International's Education Now campaign, this briefing paper evaluates the International Monetary Fund (IMF), offering information, statistics, case studies and recommendations for change.
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  Services for the poor?: questioning the WDR 2004

  Gerster Consulting, 2003

  This paper presents a critical assessment of the World Bank’s World Development Report 2004: Making Services Work for Poor People.It claims that the report has as strengths:the emphasis on basic services being a public responsibility because of the role of government to limit market failures and to promote social equitythe messages to donors to harmonize around recipient’s systems a
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  Targeting food insecure households: an Indian experiment

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This paper presents an alternative, participatory approach to the identification of food insecure households at the community level. This approach is introduced as a response to the different food assistance schemes currently implemented by the Government of India, which show a lacklustre performance due to inappropriate targeting.
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  Food aid and child nutrition in rural Ethiopia

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper uses a unique panel data set from Ethiopia to examine the determinants of participation in and receipts of food aid through free distribution (FD) and food-for-work (FFW).
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  Risk sharing and public transfers

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2002

  This paper investigates public transfers in the form of food aid for farm households in Ethiopia to test for the presence of community risk-sharing arrangements.Findings include:both perfect risk-sharing and autarky are rejected, suggesting partial risk-sharing using informal transfersthere is evidence consistent with crowding out of informal insurance linked to food aid programmes
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  Democracy, public expenditures, and the poor

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2003

  This paper reviews the theory and evidence on the impact of political market imperfections, and develops the implications of these findings for the structure and design of policy interventions meant to improve the allocation of resources.
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  When is external debt sustainable?

  Debt Initiative for Highly Indebted Poor Countries, World Bank, 2003

  This paper analyzes the probability of 'debt distress' in developing countries and examines the implications of these results for the lending policies of official creditors and the borrowing strategies of low income debtor countries.It defines debt distress episodes as periods in which countries resort to exceptional financing in any one of three ways:incur substantial arrears on their
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  Making markets work for the poor: challenge to Sida's support to private sector development

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2003

  This report provides a basic descriptive framework and a source of knowledge on poverty focused private sector development.
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  Poverty reduction strategy papers: review of private sector participation

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003

  This study reviews the role of the private sector in the formulation, implementation and strategy articulated in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) endorsed by the World Bank and IMF. The purpose of the study is to determine whether PRSPs to date have taken adequate account of the role of the for-profit private sector in reducing poverty.
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  From social assistance to social development: targeted education subsidies in developing countries

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2003

  A joint project of the Center for Global Development and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), this book compiles published and unpublished material on existing conditioned transfer for education (CTE) programs and evaluates their ability to advance poverty reduction and education goals.

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