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    Budget support: as good as the strategy it finances

    Social Watch, 2007
    International aid donors have increasingly moved toward direct budget support as a means of reducing poverty and meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This article discusses the relevance of budget support to financing the MDGs, how it should be designed and what attitude civil society organisations should adopt towards it. 
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    Global principles for global operators: why looking at accountability in relationships matters in achieving sustainability and effectiveness

    One World Trust, 2007
    Global operators, whether corporate, intergovernmental or non-governmental, work in the same sphere and impact on the same people. In turn, they need to follow similar principles of accountability and can learn from each others’ practices.
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    Discontent, confusion, non-transparency: how to become relevant in Latin America

    Bank Information Center, 2007
    Since October 2005,  the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) has undergone significant changes in structure and lending practices, under the leadership of the new President Alberto Moreno. This report provides a background on these changes and higlights issues of concern. The Bank’s restructuring process consisted of three principal components:
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    Fighting poverty or fantasy figures: the reality of Australian aid

    AID/WATCH, 2007
    At $3.16 billion, Australian aid is supposedly the most generous it has ever been but is this aid being spent on poverty reduction? This report explores Australia's aid budget and reveals that upwards of a billion dollars in Australia's aid fails to contribute to meaningful poverty reduction in aid recipient countries.
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    Programme conditions, project safeguards: quo vadis World Bank?

    Bretton Woods Project, 2007
    Conditional lending remains a controversial aspect of World Bank lending. These conditions have often placed an undue burden on developing countries and at the same time have undermined human rights and the environment. This policy brief discusses the evolution of conditionality at the World Bank and the current landscape of programme conditions and project safeguards.
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    Central Emergency Response Fund: interim review

    Reliefweb, 2007
    The Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) was created in 2005 in order to ensure the rapid and coordinated response of United Nations (UN) agencies to emergencies. This evaluation explores how the CERF is contributing towards effectively promoting a more timely, predictable, equitable, effective and accountable humanitarian response, and how it could be improved.
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    Commitment to Development Index 2007

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2007
    Since 2003, the Center for Global Development has published the Commitment to Development Index (CDI), an annual ranking list of 21 donor countries to assess the coherence of their development policies. In particular, the CDI assesses how much rich countries help poor countries build prosperity, good government, and security.
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    Joint evaluation study of provision of technical assistance personnel: what can we learn from promising experiences?: synthesis report on the study on promising approaches to technical assistance

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2007
    Technical assistance (TA) remains a controversial component of official development assistance (ODA). This study aims to contribute to the current discussions on aid effectiveness and capacity development by assessing what works in relation to the deployment of technical assistance (TA) personnel, and exploring what initiatives/reforms are being taken to improve practice.
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    Does aid work - for the MDGs?

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
    In 2005, the G8 leaders promised to double aid to Africa and the UN World Summit to increase total official development assistance (ODA) by around $ 50 bn. But are such increases in aid really what is needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals?
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    Towards a European consensus on humanitarian aid

    EC, 2007
    Humanitarian aid is one of the European Union’s (EU) main external policies and collectively, the EU is the world’s largest humanitarian donor. This document sets out key principles and practices for EU member states engaged in humanitarian activities.

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