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Aid and reform in Africa: lessons from ten case studies
World Bank, 2001This article explores comparatively, the effect and effectiveness of aid in different African countries (10 case studies).More specifically the article investigates the following questions:are there common characteristics of successful and failed reformers that enable us to understand better the political economy of reform?do donors tailor their assistance to different types of counDocumentWhat good can debt relief and PRSP do?: the case of Zambia
Bread for the World, 2001This web resource looks into the Zambia's position of debt and the influence PRSPs and associated debt relief is having on Zambia.DocumentHirschmanian themes of social learning and change
World Bank, 2001This article positions itself within the context of discussions (inspired by Albert Hirschman) about strategies of unbalanced growth in response to the postwar theories of the “big push,” development planning, and balanced growth.DocumentTargeting assistance to the poor and food insecure: a literature review
The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 1995This report is a comprehensive review of the literature and summary of “targeting” programs that deliver food assistance to the poor and food insecure. It provides definitions, ra-tionales for targeting, analysis of benefits and costs (political and administrative) of various targeting mechanisms, and descriptions of targeting methods.DocumentUnited Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa: full text of Convention
Convention to Combat Desertification, 1994Full text of the Convention to Combat Desertification, which was elaborated by the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INCD) and signed in June 1994.Also available from the CCD WWW site in French and EnglishDocumentThe determinants of the national position of Brazil on climate change : empirical reflections
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997International negotiations on the Framework Convention on Climate Change have been characterized by severe polarization between developed and developing countries. The G77, led by major countries such as Brazil, India, and China, illustrated a remarkable capacity to manifest its importance in the final text of the Convention.DocumentDecentralization and macroeconomic management
International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997There is a vast and growing body of literature covering the potential efficiency and welfare gains from decentralization. The literature has also amply discussed the potential trade-offs between decentralization and income redistribution, as well as various mechanisms designed to attenuate these trade-offs.DocumentAn Assessment of European - aided Watershed Development Projects in India from the Perspective of Poverty Reduction and the poor
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998The paper assesses four Watershed Development Projects in India supported by European donors, namely Karnataka Watershed Development Project (Danida), Doon Valley Integrated Watershed Management Project (European Commission), Karnataka Integrated Watershed Management Project (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau) and Karnataka Watershed Development Project (Overseas Development Administration/DepartmentDocumentBusiness development, social security or patronage? Zambia’s Agricultural Credit Management Programme.
Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997The government that took power in Zambia in 1991 faced the challenge of fulfilling its promise to liberalise the economy while at the same time preventing any further increase in poverty and consolidating its hold on power. Part of its response was the launch, in 1994, of the Agricultural Credit Management Programme (ACMP).Pages