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  How Did Highly Indebted Poor Countries Become Highly Indebted?: Reviewing Two Decades of Debt Relief

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Theoretical models predict that countries with unchanged long-run savings preferences will respond to debt relief by running up new debts or by running down assets. And there are some signs that incremental debt relief over the past two decades has fulfilled those predictions.
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  The performance of the Lesotho credit union movement: internal financing and external capital inflow

  Enterprise and Cooperative Development Department, Social Finance Unit, ILO, 1996

  Looks at the effects of using financial cooperatives in Lesotho as conduits for providing financial resources to the poor. The empirical study which forms the basis of this paper explores the factors that have determined the success of credit cooperatives in this country.
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  An analysis of the poverty orientation of current Danida policies

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999

  Paper discusses Danida's current policies and activities with respect to: the overall poverty reduction goal and understandingsthe attempt to ‘mainstream' the poverty reduction objective in guidelines and proceduresthe concrete programmes and projects undertaken in Uganda.
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  An end to forgotten emergencies?

  Oxfam, 2000

  As Western countries have got richer in the past ten years, the proportion of their wealth spent on humanitarian aid has gone down by 30%. The number of forgotten emergencies looks set to increase. The required response is not aid alone. Oxfam continues to press for international efforts to prevent conflict, tackle poverty, and promote respect for human rights. Yet humanitarian aid remains vital.
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  Attacking Poverty: World Development Report 2000/2001

  World Development Report, World Bank, 2000

  The report builds on the view that poverty means not only low incomes and low consumption but also lack of education and poor nutrition and health.
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  Kenya: Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy 2000 - 2003

  Poverty Reduction Strategies and PRSPs, PovertyNet, World Bank, 2000

  The strategy states that the primary development goal for Kenya is to achieve a broad-based, sustainable improvement in the standards of welfare of all Kenyans. The paper stresses the role not only of Government but of the the private sector, non-governmental and community based organisations in meeting the challenge of poverty reduction.
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  Alleviating poverty: role of good governance and constitutional reform

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2000

  This article explores the role that good governance and constitutional reform might play in poverty alleviation in India.Policy recommendations:There is a need for the state to move out of many areas, which it has previously occupied.
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  Conflict prevention: commission initiative to improve EU’s civilian intervention capacities

  European Union, 2001

  The Commission today adopted a Communication on Conflict Prevention. This document contains a comprehensive review of all the recent initiatives undertaken by the Community to promote peace and stability. The communication proposes a consolidated and realistic approach of the EU to conflict prevention.
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  Paths out of poverty: the role of private enterprise in developing coutries

  International Finance Corporation, 2000

  This article emphasises that private enterprises are essential in allowing the poor to escape poverty, and looks at which conditions encourage or discourage private firms from doing business in poorer countries.Key conditions are: the state can secure contract enforcement between private parties and between private parties and the state—most basically, clearly defined property rights.
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  Aid dependence and governance

  Expert Group on Development Issues, Department for International Development Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 2000

  This study analyses the political economy of aid dependence. It argues that large amounts of aid, delivered to countries with weak institutions, create some of the institutional problems that lead to ineffective governance.

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