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    Danish Development Cooperation with India - in a Poverty Reduction Perspective

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    The paper gives an overview of Denmark's official development cooperation with India, viewed from a poverty reduction perspective. It is one of the products of a research project, entitled 'Comparative Study of European Aid for Poverty Reduction in India', carried out in 1997 by a group of four European and eleven Indian researchers.
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    The Caribbean Region: A Review on World Bank Assistance

    Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1994
    The small island economies of the Caribbean pose conceptual and operational questions for the Bank—foremost, how can it assist these countries' development efforts in a cost-effective way?
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    Ghana Country Assistance Review: A study in Development Effectiveness

    Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995
    Bank assistance was generally effective in helping Ghana make considerable economic progress over the past decade.
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    Towards a New Partnership: Assessment of Government Performance

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1998
    Lome IV is approaching its natural conclusion. In cooperation of the EU with the ACP countries, the EU has decided to move away from what it calls a partnership dominated by a 'culture of entitlement' to a more practical, realistic and business-like partnership.
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    Aid, Taxation, and Development: Analytical Perspectives on Aid Effectiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
    Designing effective aid programs requires accurately diagnosing problems.
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    The ghost of financing gap : how the Harrod - Domar growth model still haunts development economics

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
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    Political, economic and social institutions : a review of growth evidence

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998
    Integrates North's institutional framework with the notion of institutions in the augmented Solow growth model, to clarify the direct and indirect channels by which institutions influence growth. Four ways to extend the Solow model in order to incorporate a rôle for institutions are outlined; and growth regressions are reinterpreted in this light.
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    The Civil Society Agenda: Switching Gears In The Post Cold War World

    North-South Institute, 1997
    Why are donors talking about civil society? There are a number of factors that may explain the cornucopian expectations - dramatic contextual changes in the way that Northerners, especially Americans, are understanding society's relationship with the state. This collage of factors has led to a series of conclusions about what civil society can do to redress social ills.
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    Governance and Policy Formulation

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1997
    Summary proceedings of a 1997 meeting covering: The governance environment (including the evolving role of civil society and extra-governmental organisations) The locus of policy formulation: interface between politician and administrator Respective roles and functions of politicians, administrators and civil society: consideration of institutional issues raised by these.
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    Aid, the Incentive Regime, and Poverty Reduction

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
    Aid spurs growth and poverty reduction only in a good policy environment so it should be targeted to countries that have improved their economic policy. That aid tends to be allocated relatively indiscriminately is one factor that undermines its potential impact. Spurring growth in the developing world is one stated objective of foreign aid.

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