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    How have the Public Expenditure Management (PEM) reforms performed in Malawi.

    National Research Council of Malawi, 2007
    This paper sets out to present a general analysis of Malawi’s public expenditure management situation assessing the factors that have undermined the achievement of prudent expenditure management.
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    Finance matters: id21 insights, issue 40

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    An efficient and stable financial system is important for economic growth and poverty reduction. The financial crises that have afflicted many countries in recent times have been a costly and painful reminder of the disastrous consequences for development of weak financial markets.   Articles included:
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    Pensions for life?: id21 insights, issue 42

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The 1990s could well qualify as the decade of global pension reform. A number of countries in Latin America and some transition economies radically transformed their pension provision and moved swiftly towards privately provided individual retirement plans.
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    Military spending and development: id21 insights, issue 50

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    War in Iraq and Afghanistan, conflict between Israel and Palestine and terrorist attacks in a score of major cities have dominated the international headlines in the last three years. Few doubt their interconnections – although the sequence of cause and effect are matters of passionate debate.
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    Europe and Central Asia, World Bank

    World bank website section covering Europe and Central Asia
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    Centre for the Analysis of Public Policies / Centro di Analisi delle Politiche Pubbliche

    CAPP (Centre for the Analysis of Public Policies) was created in December 2000. It engages in research into welfare and fiscal policies, with a special focus on their distributive effects:
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    Beyond the BICs: identifying the ‘emerging middle powers’ and understanding their role in global poverty reduction

    Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2010
    Much attention has been focused on the BICs (Brazil, India and China) and how they are changing global politics and economics. However, there is also a further tier of emerging middle powers ‘beyond the BICs’ that are playing a more prominent role in regional and global arenas.
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    Green shoots of hope: changing economic conditions in Zimbabwe

    Afrobarometer, 2010
    This paper is dedicated to addressing the signs of recovery in Zimbabwe, which has previously had the fastest shrinking economy in the world, is now seemingly changing direction. Accordingly, the document presents a selection of survey results on popular evaluations of Zimbabwe's economic conditions.
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    Taxation, governance and state-building: concepts and issues

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2008
    This PowerPoint presentation outlines why taxation matters for development, perspectives on taxation and state-building and the taxation/aid/governance discourse. It shows that taxation matters for developing state capacity for service delivery and in democratic state building. However, it is rarely central in economic and policy debates in aid dependent countries for the following reasons:

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