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  Poverty in Guatemala

  World Bank, 2003

  World Bank review of poverty levels and strategies in GuatemalaThe report: examines the poverty " problem " using an array of monetary and social indicators, as well as perceptions of poverty identified by Guatemalan communities and households themselves.discusses the historical forces and contextual factors that have contributed to shaping the patterns of poverty.
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  World Economic Outlook: growth and institutions: April 2003

  World Economic Outlook, 2003

  This issue of the IMF's six-monthly report looks at the state of the global economy in 2003. It also looks systematically at the impacts of which structural and institutional reforms have on long-term economic growth.Many countries acknowledge that structural reforms will enhance long-run growth, but at the same time legitimately point to the transition costs of implementing them.
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  Statement by Global Unions to the 2003 Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank

  International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 2003

  The statement argues that the global economic slowdown brings the world further away from achieving the Millennium Development Goals, only three years after they were adopted and calls for a global stimulus plan aimed at providing decent employment and improving the living standards of those at the lowest incomes.
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  Mali: enhanced initiative for heavily indebted poor countries--completion point document

  International Monetary Fund, 2003

  Mali has successfully achieved the completion point under the IMF’s enhanced HIPC Initiative framework. This include: macroeconomic stability, structural reforms and social sector programmes.
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  Making aid smart: institutional incentives facing donor organizations and their implications for aid effectiveness

  US Agency for International Development, 2002

  Starting from the premise that allocated aid is not enough and it does not appear to be effective, this paper identifies three ways in which aid can be made smarter:by allocating it in countries with sound policies and institutionsby enabling aid to promote reform not through old-style conditionality, but through strengthening the capacity of the society to reform itselfby using it
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  Aid, economic reform and public sector fiscal behaviour in developing countries

  Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2002

  The macroeconomic impact of foreign development aid is a controversial issue.
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  Indonesia: managing decentralization

  International Monetary Fund, 2002

  The process of decentralisation in Indonesia was initiated after a long period of autocratic rule. Despite the political imperatives, there is a need to carefully sequence the fiscal decentralisation to ensure that the financing follows the assignment of functions. The functions should be commensurate with the capacity of the State to provide public services.
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  Debt sustainability, Brazil, and the IMF

  Institute for International Economics, USA, 2003

  There has been a high concentration of financial crises in Latin America over the past two years. Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay have passed through serious debt problems.This paper analyses issues of debt sustainability in emerging economies.
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  Malaria and poverty: opportunities to address malaria through debt relief and poverty reduction strategies

  Malaria Consortium, 2001

  This background paper, produced by the Malaria Consortium, investigates how Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) can support country plans to Roll Back Malaria (RBM). It makes particular reference to case studies in three countries at different stages in the preparation of PRSPs: Cameroon, Tanzania and Uganda.
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  Capital markets financing for developing-country infrastructure projects

  Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2003

  This study is the result of the United Nations International Conference on Financing for Development held in Monterrey, Mexico in March 2002.

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