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Business engagement in humanitarian relief: key trends and policy implications
Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2007This paper explores the new roles that companies are playing in humanitarian action. It examines the various forms corporate engagement, with a particular focus on partnerships, and explores the underlying motivations behind this involvement.DocumentSmall change for a high price: conditional debt relief in Mali
European Network on Debt and Development, 2007In the last three years, Mali’s debt stock has been reduced significantly as a result of the country’s participation in the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative and later on the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI).DocumentThe Chinese aid system
Center for Global Development, USA, 2007China has become a major source of foreign aid in Asia, Latin America and especially in Africa. However, little is known about this aid and some Western aid agencies fear it may discourage needed economic and political reforms in African countries, or burden poor countries with additional debt.DocumentThe decline in public spending to agriculture: does it matter?
Oxford Policy Management, 2007Public spending on agriculture is now recognised to be an important means of promoting economic growth and alleviating poverty in rural areas. However, this paper reveals that agricultural spending is not being prioritised within current budgets and, in many cases, is actually falling.DocumentIndia rising: faster growth, lower indebtedness
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2007This paper examines the links between the public finances and growth in the post-1991 period in India. It particularly focuses on addressing how over the past 25 years, India’s economy has grown at an average real rate of close to 6 percent, and recently accelerating to 9 percent.DocumentConfronting the contradictions: the IMF, wage bill caps and the case for teachers
ActionAid International, 2007IMF restrictions on recurrent government spending are working against the MDGs, and Education for All, this report argues.DocumentAid, Budgets and Accountability: A Survey Article
Development Policy Review, 2006This article surveys the recent literature on the scaling up of aid and improving its effectiveness. The author concludes that recent assessments of the effectiveness of General Budget Support (GBS) as an aid modality indicate that it has some significant but limited impacts on macroeconomic stability and government spending in priority sectors.DocumentMonetary policies for an mdg-related scaling up of ODA to combat HIV/AIDS
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006What would be the effects of a surge in aid flows in developing countries? This paper discusses the best monetary policy to manage the macroeconomic effects of a Millennium Development Goal (MDG)-related scaling up of aid inflows to address the HIV and AIDS pandemic. The paper suggests that the evidence on the overvaluation effects of aid flow is thin, at best.DocumentThe Malawi social cash transfer scheme: preliminary lessons learned
United Nations Children's Fund, 2006Evidence from a pilot social cash transfer programme in Malawi indicates that it is a cost-effective, quick way to meet the basic needs of ultra-poor households whose members are unable to work.