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  From aid to partnership: a joint review of Norwegian - South African development cooperation 1995-2001

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2003

  The study provides an overview and an assessment of the Norwegian development assistance to South Africa since the first democratic elections in 1994.The report finds that nearly one billion Norwegian kroner were disbursed from Norway to South Africa during the first seven years.
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  Sustaining local level development: what worked and what did not: lessons from the phasing-out of Norwegian aid to the Hambantota Integrated Rural Development Programme (HIRDEP), Sri Lanka 1992-1999

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2003

  This paper examines what happens when funding for a project reaches its phase-out stage and the project must stand alone. It summarises the main experiences and lessons from twenty years of the Hambantota Integrated Rural Development Programme (HIRDEP), with a focus on the last phase from 1992 to 1999.Findings include:the phasing-out did not go as initially planned.
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  NORAD 2000: the country approach

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2000

  This paper describes how a Norwegian country strategy process dovetails with a partner country’s development strategy and what factors affect the formulation of a Norwegian development cooperation strategy.The following points can be regarded as a checklist of issues that ought to be discussed and clarified in the course of a country strategy process:level of ambition and terms of refer
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  Norwegian views on Poverty Reduction Strategy Processes in partner countries

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2001

  This document presents an overview of Norwegian views in order to promote national poverty reduction strategies (PRSs) in partner countries, and the relationship with Norwegian development co-operation at the country level.The paper asserts that national ownership of strategies and development efforts, and recipient responsibility are necessary conditions for achieving poverty reduction.
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  Public opinion research, global education and development cooperation reform: in search of a virtuous circle

  OECD Development Centre, 2002

  This report compiles public attitudes to international development co-operation.
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  Do area development projects have a future?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2003

  This paper argues that ADPs have considerable potential to inform PRS and similar processes within this ‘new architecture’ of aid.Increased donor attention to Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) processes and to budgetary support have meant reduced funding for Area Development Projects (ADPs). Does this trend risk throwing the baby out with the bathwater?
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  Ranking the rich: the first annual CGD/FP commitment to development index

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2003

  Foreign Policy and the Center for Global Development have developed a new ranking system that grades the efforts of the 21 richest nations to assist the development of poorer nations.
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  The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD): opportunities and challenges

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2003

  This paper reviews major issues involved in achieving the objectives of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD).Using a simple framework for evaluation, the analysis highlights considerations relevant to policymakers in the areas of poverty reduction, macroeconomic policies, trade promotion, attracting capital flows, and governance and institutional reforms.The analysis also ide
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  Aligning assistance for development effectiveness: promising country experience

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper compiles reports from 12 countries being tracked by the World Bank for their progress towards achieving the Comprehensive Development Framework.
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  Globalisation and dimensions of poverty

  Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department for International Development Cooperation / FINNIDA, 2003

  What is the impact on poverty of prevailing globalisation? Is the globalisation process a neutral economic phenomenon that can be harnessed to benefit everyone, or is it a conquest-like political process intrinsically slanted to benefit the few? This report looks at these crucial questions in the present globalisation debate.

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