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Searching with a thematic focus on Aid and debt, Governance, Poverty

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  Ghana Country Assistance Review: A study in Development Effectiveness

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995

  Bank assistance was generally effective in helping Ghana make considerable economic progress over the past decade.
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  CARE Village Banks Project, Guatemala

  Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1998

  The Women’s Village Banking (VB) Program of CARE Guatemala provides particularly interesting insights into some of the issues and challenges facing village banking programs around the world. Like many programs started in the 1980's, the CARE VB program was created as an experiment in the increasingly popular field of microenterprise finance.
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  The Alexandria Business Association Small and Microenterprise Project, Egypt

  Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1988

  This case study is designed to go behind the financial data (which show that ABA is indeed moving to financial sustainability) and place the project within the culture of the microfinance world as presently constituted.
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  Towards a New Partnership: Assessment of Government Performance

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1998

  Lome IV is approaching its natural conclusion. In cooperation of the EU with the ACP countries, the EU has decided to move away from what it calls a partnership dominated by a 'culture of entitlement' to a more practical, realistic and business-like partnership.
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  Aid, Taxation, and Development: Analytical Perspectives on Aid Effectiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998

  Designing effective aid programs requires accurately diagnosing problems.
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  Political, economic and social institutions : a review of growth evidence

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998

  Integrates North's institutional framework with the notion of institutions in the augmented Solow growth model, to clarify the direct and indirect channels by which institutions influence growth. Four ways to extend the Solow model in order to incorporate a rôle for institutions are outlined; and growth regressions are reinterpreted in this light.
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  Aid, the Incentive Regime, and Poverty Reduction

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998

  Aid spurs growth and poverty reduction only in a good policy environment so it should be targeted to countries that have improved their economic policy. That aid tends to be allocated relatively indiscriminately is one factor that undermines its potential impact. Spurring growth in the developing world is one stated objective of foreign aid.
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  Bridging the gap?: the parallel universes of the non-profit and non-governmental organisation research traditions and the changing context of voluntary action

  Centre for Civil Society, LSE, 1998

  Makes a set of general observations about international third sector research and argues that there are currently two 'parallel universes' of literature.
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  Aid allocation and poverty reduction

  Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1998

  Paper derives a poverty-efficient allocation of aid and compares it with actual aid allocations.Paperuses new World Bank ratings of twenty different aspects of national policy to establish the current relationship between aid, policies and growthadds mapping from growth to poverty reduction which reflects the level and distribution of incomecompares the effect of using the hea
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  Promises to the Poor: the Record of European Development Agencies

  Overseas Development Institute, 1998

  All the European development cooperation agencies subscribe to the international goal of reducing poverty by one half by 2015 but they have different strategies for achieving it.

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