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  Explaining African economic growth performance: the case of Ghana

  Global Development Network, 2002

  With positive economic growth since the mid 1980s, Ghana has regularly been put forward as a showcase of success in Africa. What accounts for this growth? This paper examines Ghana’s growth record and the macroeconomic policies that produced this growth.The authors review Ghana’s economic performance and note that Ghana’s overall growth record has one of unevenness.
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  Educating refugees in countries of first asylum: the case of Uganda

  Migration Policy Institute, 2004

  This article discusses the way an innovative new method of delivering education is seeking to provide for the future security of refugee families in Uganda. It suggests that the current model of international assistance in refugee camps and settlements tends to focus on meeting refugees’ immediate and short-term needs, neglecting longer-term goals and needs for stability and future security.
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  Aid and conflict: the policy coherence challenge

  WIDER Conference on Making Peace Work, 2004

  This paper explores the security dimensions of policy coherence for development (PCD) work, arguing that the future of aid lies in the intersection between security and development. Illustrating the interlinkages between security and development, the paper reports that there is growing evidence of a two-way causality.
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  South Africa and global apartheid: continental and international policies and politics

  Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2003

  This paper analyses the phenomenon of "global apartheid", an international system of minority rule whose attributes include differential access to basic human rights, wealth and power, from an African and South African perspective, and discusses possible alternative measures to fight against it.The paper argues that the main causes of "global apartheid" can be found in the right-wing neoliberal
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  NGOs, social change and the transformation of human relationships: a 21st-century civic agenda

  Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2002

  This paper explores the role of personal values in achieving social change. It argues that globalisation has shifted the balance of power from public to private interests, resulting in an emerging social order that excludes or oppresses certain groups of people. In order to achieve sustainable development a deeper change in power relations is necessary.
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  Summary of the main points contained in the conclusions and recommendations of the final report of the extractive industries review

  Forest Peoples Programme, 2003

  This document summarises the main points in the conclusions and recommendations sections of the World Bank’s Final Report of the Extractive Industries Review (EIR).
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  Inside the institutions: the World Bank and civil society

  Bretton Woods Project, 2003

  This article critically discusses the engagement of the World Bank with Civil Society Organisations (CSO).
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  Globalisation, humanitarianism and the erosion of refugee protection

  Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford, 2000

  The paper analyses the relationship between globalisation and humanitarianism, and examines what the implications are for refugee protection.
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  Human Development Report 2003: Millennium Development Goals: a compact among nations to end human poverty

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2003

  This year's report proposes a policy approach to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by addressing the structural constraints that impede economic growth and human development.
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  Far from home: do foreign investors import higher standards of governance in transition economies?

  Social Science Research Network, 2002

  This paper argues that while a number of recent studies have shown that corruption inhibits foreign direct investment (FDI), comparatively little attention has been given to the behavior of those who have invested in corrupt countries.

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