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  Scaling up versus absorptive capacity: challenges opportunities for reaching the MDGs in Africa

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This briefing paper argues that the ‘scaling up’ of aid flows that could materialise in 2005 islikely to run up against ‘absorptive capacity’ constraints, unless these are taken into account from the beginning, and adequately addressed in the design and implementation of improved aid delivery mechanisms. It asks:can poor countries effectively absorb a significant increase in aid flows?
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  Civil society, democratisation and foreign aid in Africa

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This paper critically examines the current donor practice of funding civil society organisations as a way to influence govenment policy and to create more citizen involvement in public affairs.
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  Going into a decline? Assessing global aid flows to education

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Total aid flows to education have declined at the beginning of the present decade. The current level of US$1.5 billion of support to basic education is still far short of the roughly US$7 billion per year required to meet the universal primary education (UPE) and gender goals. How should governments and the international community translate their commitments into real resources?
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  Financing and aid management arrangements in post-conflict situations

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper is concerned with the specific issues of financing modalities and aid management arrangements in post-conflict situations, and advances a number of recommendations on the basis of a review of several recent cases.
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  The impact of aid and external debt on growth and investment

  Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2002

  Additionality is an important issue of the HIPC Initiative.
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  Aid management during post-conflict reconstruction: lessons from international experience

  United Nations Development Programme, 2001

  This conference paper investigates comparatively the nature of post-conflict situations, focusing primarily on AfghanistanThe article finds that:each post-conflict situation is different and in its own way uniqueinternational experience not surprisingly underscores the critical importance of the political mandate for reconstruction stemming from a resolution of the conflictT
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  How volatile and predictable are aid flows, and what are the policy implications?

  WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001

  This paper examines the empirical evidence on the volatility and uncertainty of aid flows, and discusses the main policy implications of our findings.Findings: Aid is more volatile than revenues–particularly in highly aid-dependent countries–and mildly procyclical.

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