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  World Economic and Social Survey 2005: financing for development

  UN, 2005

  The World Economic and Social Survey 2005 provides a comprehensive review of the wide-ranging challenges addressed in the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development.
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  Direct budget support, disbursement mechanisms and predictability

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2005

  This paper presents experiences with graduated response mechanisms of direct budget support. Such mechanisms allow a donor to graduate their reactions if the recipient country fails to fulfil conditions (i.e. delay or suspend payments or even terminate the agreement altogether).
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  Aid instruments in fragile states

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This paper by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) describes the limitations of current approaches to aid instruments and discusses the emerging understanding of their use within fragile states.
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  Can debt relief boost growth in poor countries?

  International Monetary Fund, 2005

  Attempting to fill a gap in the literature, this paper examines the effect of foreign debt on growth with a particular focus on low income countries.
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  Expectations versus realities in gender-responsive budget initiatives

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005

  This paper addresses the question of how well gender-responsive budget (GRB) initiatives have done in practice compared with the claims and expectations about what they can achieve?
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  Linking policies and budgets: implementing medium term expenditure frameworks in a PRSP context

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This briefing paper focuses on the effectiveness of Medium Term Expenditure Frameworks (MTEFs) in offering a more practical approach to the implementation of the strategies laid out in the PRSPs (Povery Reduction Strategy Papers). It is based on nine country case studies which investigated the experience of implementing MTEFs in a PRSP context.
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  Managing aid; practices of DAC member countries

  OECD Development Co-operation Directorate: DAC Guidelines and Reference Series, 2005

  This report aims to expand knowledge on the various practices and structures adopted by the 22 member countries of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC)1 for managing their foreign assistance to developing and transition countries. It highlights relevant work within the DAC as well as good practices or noteworthy features of particular DAC member countries’ programmes.
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  Perfect partners? the performance of programme aid partners in Mozambique, 2004

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This report provides an assessment of the performance of donors during 2004 in Mozambique, as well as an account of Mozambican perceptions of donors’ activities.
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  The political economy of the budget process in Mozambique

  Oxford Policy Management, 2005

  This paper discusses the nature of the budget process in Mozambique, a highly aid-dependent developing country with weak institutions.
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  Tilting the world towards Africa

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2005

  In the light of the make Poverty History Campaign and the run up to the G8 Summit in July 2005, this paper compiles a number of arguments, ideas and statements related to African development.The main points it makes are:Make Poverty History has understandably concentrated on the needs of developing countries rather than their shortcomings Make Poverty History is providing a real and

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