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  Recovery from the tsunami disaster: poverty reduction and sustainable development through microfinance

  Grameen Foundation USA, 2005

  This paper reports the findings of a team of specialists from the Grameen Foundation USA, deployed in the aftermath of the Boxing Day tsunami to assess conditions facing the poor and the effects of the disaster on the provision of microfinance.
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  The hardest job in the world: five crucial tasks for the new president of the World Bank

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2005

  At the start of Paul Wolfowitz’s tenure at the World bank, this report sets out five crucial tasks for the World Bank president over the next five years. It argues that Wolfowitz's biggest challenge will not be managing the Bank, with its 10,000 staff, but leading its shareholders, the nations of the world.
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  Oxfam international submission to World Bank review of conditionality, May 2005

  Oxfam, 2005

  This paper notes that, for the World Bank review on aid conditionality to make a real difference to the way the Bank operates in developing countries, it needs to set out a bold agenda, and demonstrate that the Bank will be a lead player in making aid more effective for poverty reduction.
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  Managing an economy in a HIPC-constrained environment

  Centre for Policy Analysis, Ghana, 2005

  Drawing on the particular example of Ghana, this paper examines the processes and issues of the Highly Indebted Poor Country Initiative (HIPC).
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  The Millennium Development Goals: a comparative performance of six EU member states and the EC aid programme

  Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, 2005

  This report aims to contribute to the assessment of the Millennium Summit of the effective implementation of the MDGs.
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  Scaling up versus absorptive capacity: challenges opportunities for reaching the MDGs in Africa

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This briefing paper argues that the ‘scaling up’ of aid flows that could materialise in 2005 islikely to run up against ‘absorptive capacity’ constraints, unless these are taken into account from the beginning, and adequately addressed in the design and implementation of improved aid delivery mechanisms. It asks:can poor countries effectively absorb a significant increase in aid flows?
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  Engendering policy coherence for development: gender issues for the global policy agenda in the year 2005

  Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., 2005

  Using case studies, this paper explores the distributional consequences and gendered outcomes of the current international trade and financial policy regimes.
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  Progress reviews and performance assessment in poverty-reduction strategies and budget support: a survey of current thinking and practice

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This report describes and analyses the challenges posed by the monitoring and evaluation of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and budget support programmes.
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  DFID Social Exclusion Review

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This report reviews and synthesises experiences of working with social exclusion both within DFID and among other agencies. It examines how DFID staff members understand social exclusion and points to the risks, challenges and opportunities they associate with using the term social exclusion. It also reviews work that has been undertaken across DFID's regional programmes and at a policy level.
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  World Bank 2004 Annual Review of Development Effectiveness (ARDE)

  World Bank, 2005

  This report looks at the recent growth and poverty reduction experience of client countries. It assesses the extent to which Bank interventions have contributed to growth and poverty reduction and the effectiveness of different types of interventions.

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