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  Danish Development Cooperation with India - in a Poverty Reduction Perspective

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  The paper gives an overview of Denmark's official development cooperation with India, viewed from a poverty reduction perspective. It is one of the products of a research project, entitled 'Comparative Study of European Aid for Poverty Reduction in India', carried out in 1997 by a group of four European and eleven Indian researchers.
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  The Aga Khan Rural Support Program: A Third Evaluation

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995

  AKRSP, in its thirteenth year of operation, continues to be an effective instrument to improve community productivity and family welfare in Pakistan's Northern Areas and Chitral. Improvements have resulted from the program's interventions in productive investments, in production-support investments, such as access roads, in training, and in financial and technical services.
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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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  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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  Institutions in transition : reliability of rules and economic performance in former Socialist countries

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
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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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  Strengthening National Capacity for HIV/AIDS Strategic Planning

  HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 1998

  Strategic Planning is essential for a effective response to the epidemic. UNDP has extensive experience and long involvement in the strengthening of national planning capacity in all operational regions.
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  Governance and Policy Formulation

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1997

  Summary proceedings of a 1997 meeting covering: The governance environment (including the evolving role of civil society and extra-governmental organisations) The locus of policy formulation: interface between politician and administrator Respective roles and functions of politicians, administrators and civil society: consideration of institutional issues raised by these.
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  Mainstreaming Public Participation in Economic Infrastructure Projects

  Overseas Development Institute, 1998

  In the last ten years, participation has become central to the social development sectors of official development assistance – smallholder agriculture, community forestry, health care, education, urban sanitation, small-scale water supplies, etc.

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