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Global monitoring report, 2006:Millennium Development Goals: strengthening mutual accountability, aid,trade, and governance
World Bank, 2006This report comments on global progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), focusing on aid, trade and financial dimensions of the process. It notes that, despite commitments to raising aid effectiveness from the G8 and the Paris Declaration, the world is still far from achieving the MDGs - particularly Africa and South Asia.DocumentEffects of budget support: a discussion of early evidence
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2004The purpose of this literature review is to review and summarise existing literature on General Budget Support (GBS), covering both ongoing and completed studies and evaluations, and applying this new information to the GBS evaluation framework.DocumentReversing the curse: five principles for beating the "natural resource curse"
Overseas Development Institute, 2006This briefing paper recognises that the presence of non-renewable natural resources (NRNR) in a country, such as oil, gas, metals and mineral commodities, can bring great risks, in the shape of economic mis-management, instability, inflation, and corruption, as well as potential opportunities.DocumentNew ideas for development financing
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2005Goal Eight of the Millennium Development Goals requires all countries to enter a global partnership for development to implement the MDGs. This partnership includes the provision of adequate resources in support of the developing countries’ own efforts.DocumentMacroeconomic challenges of scaling up aid to Africa: a checklist for practitioners
International Monetary Fund, 2006This handbook is intended as a practical guide for assessing the macroeconomic implications and challenges associated with a significant scaling up of aid to African countries.DocumentImplementing DFID’s conditionality policy: a how-to note
Department for International Development, UK, 2006On 2 March 2005 Hilary Benn launched the UK policy paper 'Partnerships for poverty reduction: rethinking conditionality'.DocumentPolitics and poverty reduction strategies: lessons from Latin American HIPCs
Overseas Development Institute, 2006This paper addresses the perception that poverty reduction strategy (PRS) processes in Latin America and the Caribbean have not grappled effectively with politics, and have not engaged successfully with political actors and institutions. The authors draw upon evidence from documents and interviews on how this situation has arisen and how it might be confronted.DocumentUsing social transfers to improve human development
Department for International Development, UK, 2006Scaling up investment in service provision and quality is necessary, but is not sufficient to achieve universal access to health and education services. Specific policies to boost demand and expand equitable access to quality health and education services are also required.DocumentAre donor countries giving more or less aid?
International Monetary Fund, 2006This working paper looks at how the volume of foreign aid has increased during the last four decades, albeit with interruptions in certain years.