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Tackling poverty: a proposal for European Union aid reform
British Overseas NGOs for Development, 2002EU aid to low-income countries has fallen to an all-time low: from 70 percent in 1990 to 39 percent in 2000. This paper argues that by focusing on middle-income countries, EU aid is not poverty-focused, and its effectiveness and reputation is suffering as a result.DocumentA call to action for the UN millennium declaration: we the peoples: 2003
World Federation of United Nations Associations, 2003This report is based on an e-survey of more than 300 organizations in over 80 countries and a number of other civil society events and sources. It presents a a sketch of civil society organizations engaging with the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.DocumentAre we really reducing global poverty?
World Bank, 2002This paper questions whether $1 per day is a valid poverty norm whether poverty trends for China are an enigma; and whether statistical validity can be mistaken for truth. It draws the attention to the risk of ‘misplaced concreteness’ in economic analyses.DocumentCosting Poverty Reduction Strategies: early experience
PRSP Monitoring and Synthesis Project, 2002This paper gives an analysis of the Poverty Reduction Strategy approach through assessing fiscal implications of reaching medium and long-term poverty reduction targets.DocumentPro-poor macroeconomic policies require poverty and social impact analysis
European Network on Debt and Development, 2003This paper shows that in the PRGF (Poverty Reduction Growth Facility) the IMF continues to use the same rigid economic model and fails to recognise that different macroeconomic policy options exist. It then provides examples of the considerable work also going on outside the IMF on developing techniques for PSIA of macroeconomic frameworks, which the fund has failed to take an active role in.DocumentIs PRGF maximising finance for poverty reduction?
European Network on Debt and Development, 2003This paper presents an analysis of the direct and indirect impacts of PRGF programmes on the mobilisation of finance needed to progress towards the MDGs. The analysis reveals that although some changes have indeed taken place since the PRGF facility was first launched, they are still too limited in scope and in depth.DocumentFeedback on the user’s guide to poverty and social impact analysis (PSIA)
World Learning, 2003This paper argues that the Bank should use the PSIA process to improve the nature of its engagement with southern governments and involve those not usually engaged in macro-policy processes.DocumentWhere is the impact?
Oxfam, 2003This paper is a joint briefing by a consortium of NGOs (CAFOD, Oxfam International, World Vision, Christian Aid, Bretton Woods Project, EURODAD, Save the Children, WaterAid) in response to the World Bank's Draft user's guide to poverty and social impact analysis.DocumentReal Progress Report on HIPC
Jubilee Research, 2003This New Economics Foundation report is intended to shadow the official World Bank and IMF annual HIPC Status of Implementation Report, and states that it examines questions that the official HIPC reports do not, including:how much debt has actually been cancelled?are creditors really sharing the burden of debt relief under the HIPC initiative?is HIPC debt relief enough to aDocumentAccording to need?: needs assessment and decision-making in the humanitarian sector
Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2003The article states there are three problems underlying responses to humanitarian crises:international humanitarian financing is not equitable, and amounts allocated do not reflect comparative levels of needthere is no system-wide framework for judging the relative severity of situations, and for aligning decisions about response accordinglydonors are sceptical about agencies’ assesPages