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    HIPC sovereign debt, debt relief and governance ratings

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    This paper explores a simple modeling framework in which the probability of compliance with expectations on levels of governance and corruption are attached as conditions for debt relief.The article finds that:it should be possible to explicitly link the level of governance and corruption as a condition for obtaining debt forgiveness.
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    Policies to roll-back the State and privatise?: Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers investigated

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    The findings in this report are based on an examination of four PRSPs and twelve interim documents, along with comments made by civil society groups from developing countries.The report concludes that:across highly indebted poor countries, civil society groups are unsatisfied with the extent of public involvement in drawing up the strategy papersgovernment ownership of PRSPs is weak
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    Should the HIPC debt relief be predicated on institutional reform?

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    This paper draws from the literature on institutional quality and economic growth and argues that in order to achieve long-term debt sustainability, HIPCs need to improve their institutions.The article argues that one way to promote good governance in HIPCs is to predicate debt relief on institutional reform.
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    Will HIPC matter?: the debt game and donor behavior in Africa

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    Will the HIPC debt reduction program help in the transformation of the development assistance business and change the rules of the “debt game” in Africa?
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    Governance and the returns to investment : an empirical investigation

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    There is a strong statistical link between a country's civil liberties and the performance of its aid financed government investment projects.
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    When is foreign aid policy credible? : aid dependence and conditionality

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
    Disbursements of foreign aid are guided (in part) by the needs of the poor. Anticipating this, recipients have little incentive to improve the welfare of the poor.
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    Aid, Policies, and Growth

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    Aid has a positive impact on growth in developing countries with good fiscal, monetary, and trade policies. Aid appears not to affect policies systematically either for good or for ill. Any tendency for aid to reward good policies has been overwhelmed by donors' pursuit of their own strategic interests.
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    Rethinking Development Assistance: the implications of social citizenship in a global economy

    Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1999
    The emerging model for development assistance in the coming decades is based on supporting the full integration of developing countries into the global economy by correcting for failures in product and factor capital markets. 'Aid' as such would be confined to humanitarian emergencies and activities with large international externalities.
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    The Role of the German "Stiftungen" in the Process of democratisation

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999
    This paper gives an overview of the system of the five German "Stiftungen", and describes in general terms their aims, objectives and activities in support of transitional democratic processes in general, and in Sub-Saharan Africa in particular.
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    International Experience with Institutional Development and administrative Reform: Some Pointers for Success

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999
    Whatever their stage of development, all countries need to enhance institutional capacity so that they can keep up with advances in this age where the rate of change is greater than at any previous time in history. All lay stress on the central importance of management capacity within the public service.

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