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Aid effectiveness: can aid agencies be smarter than the invisible hand?
Public Policy for the Private Sector [World Bank], 2005Private financial flows such as foreign direct investment seem to encourage economic growth and relieve poverty in part because they create excellent incentives for transferring know-how and in part because they are subject to a stern market test that ensures they are allocated and monitored carefully.DocumentFrom disaster to reconstruction: a report on ADB's response to the Asian Tsunami
Asian Development Bank Institute, 2005This report documents the Asian Development Bank's response to the Asian Tsunami, reflecting on what has been achieved in the months since the disaster.DocumentImproving the dynamics of aid: towards more predictable budget support
World Bank, 2005This paper considers approaches towards improving the predictability of aid to low income countries, with a special focus on budget support.DocumentThe impact of foreign aid on public expenditure: the case of Kenya
African Economic Research Consortium, 2003Foreign aid represents an important source of finance for many countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where it supplements low savings, narrow export earnings and thin tax bases. In recent years the donor community has become more stringent about fiscal discipline and good policies, which has led to freezing of donor funds to governments that do not conform to aid conditionalities.DocumentStrengthening IMF crisis prevention
International Monetary Fund, 2005This paper focuses on how to reform IMF operations (in particular, IMF surveillance and its relationship with crisis lending) with the aim of providing stronger incentives for crisis prevention.It recommends that incentives could be improved by: providing more effective encouragement to policymakers to undertake actions that will prevent costly financial crisesby discouraging excessDocumentTax evasion, tax avoidance and development finance
Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2005This paper considers the effects of tax avoidance and evasion on the financing of development.DocumentEffective states building: forging engaged societies
World Bank, 2005This report of the Task Force on Capacity Development in Africa analyses four decades of capacity development experience in Africa and offers key messages for African countries and their international partners that should underpin a renewed effort to develop, use, and retain capacity for development in Sub Saharan Africa.DocumentInnovative ways of making aid effective in Ghana: tied aid versus direct budgetary support
World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005This paper considers the government of Ghana and its development partners who have agreed on an aid package dubbed the multi-donor budgetary support (MDBS). This package was created to ensure continuous flow of aid to finance the government’s poverty related expenditures.The authors examine the MDBS, with special focus on how it overcomes the problems of tied aid and other project support.DocumentWorldbankification of Norwegian development assistance
Ignis Foundation, Norway, 2005This document provides a close study of the role and influence of the World Bank over Norwegian development policy, referred to as "worldbankification".