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The coherence of trade flows and trade policies with aid and investment flows: a background paper
OECD Development Centre, 2006This paper provides an overview of the relationships among trade, aid and foreign direct investment (FDI), both in terms of policy interactions and interactions among resource flows.DocumentA policymakers’ guide to Dutch disease
Center for Global Development, USA, 2006Aimed at policy-makers, this paper tackles the issue of Dutch Disease - that is, the theory that aid flows will lead to an appreciation of the real exchange rate which can slow the growth of a country’s exports— and that aid increases might thereby harm a country’s long-term growth prospects.DocumentArrears clearance: loan laundering and creditor co-responsibility
European Network on Debt and Development, 2006This paper explores how the international community currently deals with arrears clearance operations, in particular to the international financial institutions (IFIs). Currently, for all developing countries the total amount of external debt in arrears stood at US$130bn in 2003. The regions most in arrears difficulties are Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.DocumentChallenging conditions: a new strategy for reform at the World Bank and IMF
Christian Aid, 2006This report argues that conditions attached to aid and loans from the IMF and World Bank are unacceptable. It calls for the UK government to reinforce its own commitment to end such conditionalities through a moritorium on its voluntary contributions to the IMF and World Bank.DocumentForeign aid and private sector development
Brown University, 2006This study examines three of the most prominent approaches to using public concessional resources to further small and medium-sized enterprises (SME's) in developing and transition countries. These approaches are establishing enterprise funds and funding equity funds, and NGOs that provide advice to SMEs.DocumentDestroy and profit: wars, disasters and corporations
Focus on the Global South, 2006This publication addresses some of the key issues and challenges that accompany post war and post disaster reconstruction programmes.DocumentSurviving disasters and supporting recovery: a guidebook for microfinance institutions
World Bank, 2006Experiences of several Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) in disaster-prone areas have demonstrated that access to microfinance services can support disaster preparedness and risk reduction by decreasing client vulnerability. When clients have access to needed financial services during crisis situations, the impact of the disaster may considerably lessen.DocumentThe role of external debt in current account sustainability in Uganda 1993/94 – 2004/05
UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2005This paper assess the sustainability of Uganda’s external debt and current account position with a view to deriving general policy implications for other African countries at a similar level of development.The author outlines a number of policies to enhance current account and external debt sustainability in Africa.DocumentUsing ODA to promote private investment for development: policy guidance for donors
Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2006This report provides guidance to members of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) on using ODA more effectively to mobilise private investment for development (investment-enhancing ODA).DocumentEvaluation of general budget support: synthesis report
DAC Network on Development Evaluation, 2006OECD donor countries now channel about US$ 5 billion (some 5 per cent of their aid) directly to the budgets of developing country governments.This report reflects findings from an evaluation conducted by the OECD DAC to assess to what extent, and under what circumstances, General Budget Support (GBS) is relevant, efficient and effective for achieving sustainable impacts on poverty reduction and gPages