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    Budget support to Ghana: a risk worth taking?

    Overseas Development Institute, 2007
    This policy brief presents a case study of general budget support (GBS) in Ghana. It is argued that, by providing aid as budget support, donors have taken risks and made important contributions to poverty alleviation and governance.
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    The Chinese aid system

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2007
    China 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.
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    Confronting the contradictions: the IMF, wage bill caps and the case for teachers

    ActionAid International, 2007
    IMF restrictions on recurrent government spending are working against the MDGs, and Education for All, this report argues.
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    Aid, Budgets and Accountability: A Survey Article

    Development Policy Review, 2006
    This 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.
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    The Malawi social cash transfer scheme: preliminary lessons learned

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2006
    Evidence 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.
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    Understanding the politics of the budget: What drives change in the budget process?

    Department for International Development, UK, 2007
    This briefing note distills the findings of several political analyses of the budget process in developing countries and highlights why a good political understanding of theset processes is important to improve aid effectiveness.
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    Maximising aid effectiveness in microfinance

    Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest, 2005
    Five core elements of effective support for microfinance systems are described in this donor briefing.
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    Does the IMF cap health spending in developing countries?

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2006
    Most of the recently negotiated International Monetary Fund (IMF) programmes include a ceiling which limits the opportunities for countries to utilise increasing aid, including billions of dollars for prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS.
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    Making fiscal space happen: managing fiscal policy in a world of scaled-up aid

    International Monetary Fund, 2006
    The G8 countries have committed to double aid flows to developing countries by 2010. Although these funds offer great opportunities to recipient countries, aid inflows of such magnitude pose significant macroeconomic challenges to low income countries (LIC).
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    Coherence for development: economic recommendations for Spain

    Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estrategicos, Madrid, 2006
    This paper looks at the coherence of donors’ economic policies with the objectives of the official international development cooperation policy.It outlines the potential benefits – and the conditions required to realise those benefits – and risks associated with the following policy areas:tradeemigrant remittancesforeign direct investment (FDI)external debt, restructuring an

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