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  How Did Highly Indebted Poor Countries Become Highly Indebted?: Reviewing Two Decades of Debt Relief

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Theoretical models predict that countries with unchanged long-run savings preferences will respond to debt relief by running up new debts or by running down assets. And there are some signs that incremental debt relief over the past two decades has fulfilled those predictions.
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  The performance of the Lesotho credit union movement: internal financing and external capital inflow

  Enterprise and Cooperative Development Department, Social Finance Unit, ILO, 1996

  Looks at the effects of using financial cooperatives in Lesotho as conduits for providing financial resources to the poor. The empirical study which forms the basis of this paper explores the factors that have determined the success of credit cooperatives in this country.
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  DAC scoping study of donor poverty reduction policies and practices

  Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1999

  Survey of European donors suggests that development agencies are increasingly seeking to involve partner governments and the poor themselves in translating poverty reduction aims into real benefits. Participatory approaches and gender analysis are more widespread.
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  The Commission and non-governmental organisations: building a stronger partnership

  European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 1999

  Aims to: give an overview of the existing relationships between the Commission and NGOs including some current problemssuggest possible ways to develop these relationships by considering the measures needed to improve and strengthen the existing relationship between the Commission and the NGOs.Covers both inter-European isuues and the European development cooperation program
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  Aid effectiveness disputed

  Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1999

  There is a widespread perception among academic researchers and aid practitioners alike that empirical cross-country analysis fails to find any significant link between aid flows and growth, and that aid is successful only when associated with good policies in the recipient countries.
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  An analysis of the poverty orientation of current Danida policies

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999

  Paper discusses Danida's current policies and activities with respect to: the overall poverty reduction goal and understandingsthe attempt to ‘mainstream' the poverty reduction objective in guidelines and proceduresthe concrete programmes and projects undertaken in Uganda.
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  The Design and Use of Capacity Development Indicators

  Institutional and Capacity Development Network, DAC, 1997

  Report sets out a generic list of capabilities that projects could be designed to achieve.
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  Criteria for Donor Agencies' Self-Assessment in Capacity Development

  Institutional and Capacity Development Network, DAC, 1999

  Aimed at reform-minded agencies and staff concerned with integrating capacity development into their day-to-day operations and improving their performance in this field. Aims to link donor's internal policies and practices to the impact of these in the field.
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  International financial institutions reform: report of the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, March 2000

  International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, US Congress (Meltzer Commission), 2000

  Report recommends many far-reaching changes to improve the effectiveness, accountability, and transparency of the financial institutions and to eliminate overlapping responsibilitiesThe report looking at the future of seven key institutions: theInternational Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank Group, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank,
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  Review of Experience with Evaluation in the Fund

  International Monetary Fund, 2000

  Providesan outline of the existing evaluation structure in the Fund and a list of evaluations undertaken since 1996discusses the principles which should guide effective independent evaluationprovides an overview of the external evaluations undertaken by the Fund since 1996 and identifies particular issues arising from theexperience that any effort to strengthen the Fund's capacit

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