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    The Argentinean debt: history, default and restructuring

    Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, 2005
    This paper analyses some of the processes that led to the Argentinean debt default and its subsequent restructuring.
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    An assessment of poverty reducing policies and programmes in Ghana

    Centre for Policy Analysis, Ghana, 2002
    Despite undergoing structural adjustment programmes for nearly 20 years, Ghana continues to face persistent poverty. This paper assesses the various programmes and policies that have been aimed at poverty reduction in Ghana.First, the author provides a brief background on the performance of the economy of Ghana and sets the stage for a discussion on the poverty profile.
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    Civil society, democratisation and foreign aid in Africa

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    This paper critically examines the current donor practice of funding civil society organisations as a way to influence govenment policy and to create more citizen involvement in public affairs.
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    Square pegs, round holes, and why you can’t fight HIV/AIDS with monetarism

    ActionAid International, 2005
    The briefing examines the contradiction between the need to greatly scale-up social spending to fight HIV/AIDS and what can actually be spent under the IMF’s current low inflation monetary policy.The following points are highlighted:spending on public health and education systems will need to be substantially increased in order to effectively combat HIV/AIDS and achieve the other UN Mil
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    Capacity building in Africa: an OED evaluation of World Bank support

    Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 2005
    This evaluation assesses World Bank support for public sector capacity building in Africa over the past 10 years.
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    Issues and options for improving engagement between the World Bank and civil society organizations

    World Bank, 2005
    The purpose of this paper is to assess the World Bank’s recent relations with civil society organizations (CSOs), and to propose options for promoting more effective civic engagement in Bank-supported activities and managing associated risks in the future.
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    Backgrounder: development aid

    Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, 2005
    This backgrounder presents a description of main topics in development aid in the 21st century:Financing for development:a fatigue of the limited effectiveness of development aid has resulted in insufficient level of official development aid official development aid remains at 0.2% of developed countries GDP, well below the 0.7% target some argue that private sector inves
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    Debtor-creditor relations in good times and bad

    Jubilee Research, 2005
    This paper examines both short and long term measures aimed at improving creditor-debtor relations so that they contribute to fostering human development.It highlights that, while attention must be directed towards finding a short-term solution to the immediate problems of severely debt-distressed economies it is also critical that consideration be given to broader long-term proposals for a mor
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    World Bank Group work in low-income countries under stress: a Task Force Report

    Fragile States: the LICUS Initiative, World Bank, 2002
    This report summarises the analysis, findings, and recommendations from the World Bank’s study on Low-Income Countries Under Stress (LICUS).
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    Incentives for harmonisation in aid agencies

    Overseas Development Institute, 2005
    This study assesses the importance of incentive systems internal to aid agencies in their efforts to deliver on the commitments made in the Rome Declaration on Harmonisation.

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