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    Does Economic Analysis Improve the Quality of Foreign Assistance?

    Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1998
    The World Bank undertakes large expenditures on economic analysis and advice for its member developing countries. What is the impact of this economic and sector work on the quality of World Bank lending?
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    Aid allocation and poverty reduction

    Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1998
    Paper derives a poverty-efficient allocation of aid and compares it with actual aid allocations.Paperuses new World Bank ratings of twenty different aspects of national policy to establish the current relationship between aid, policies and growthadds mapping from growth to poverty reduction which reflects the level and distribution of incomecompares the effect of using the hea
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    Assessing Aid—What Works, What Doesn't, and Why

    Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1998
    Summarizes the findings of a multi-year research program on aid effectiveness. Official Development Assistance has declined by one-third in real terms in the 1990s. There are a number of reasons for this, but one factor has been a sense that aid does not work very well.
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    Promises to the Poor: the Record of European Development Agencies

    Overseas Development Institute, 1998
    All the European development cooperation agencies subscribe to the international goal of reducing poverty by one half by 2015 but they have different strategies for achieving it.
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    The UK White Paper on International Development - and Beyond

    Overseas Development Institute, 1998
    In November 1997, the British Government published its long-awaited White Paper on international development, the first comprehensive statement on British aid for 22 years. It has been widely welcomed as a significant shift in the orientation of British development policy and as a marker for other donors.
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    Proposal for a Comprehensive Development Framework [for World Bank policy]: a Discussion Draft

    World Bank, 1998
    Bank proposal on way to radically change its development mandate. At its core, the framework focuses on a holistic approach to development, applied over a 10-15 year time-frame, with the country in the driver's seat and with strong partnerships among donors, the private sector and civil society.
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    How Bad Governance Impedes Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh

    OECD Development Centre, 1998
    In 1995/96, 47.5 per cent of the population of Bangladesh were still living below the poverty line. While this represents a decline compared to 62.6 per cent in 1983/84, the absolute number of poor people has in fact increased over the same period.
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    Measuring Aid Flows: a New Approach

    Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1998
    The debate on the effectiveness of foreign aid has intensified in recent years, as aid has come under increasing budgetary pressures in donor countries. Whatever the merits of the opposing arguments, the fundamental issue arises of whether the conventionally-used measures of aid such as ODA, that lump together grants and loans, accurately reflect true aid flows.
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    The Implications of Foreign Aid Fungibility for Development Assistance

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
    To address the fungibility of foreign aid funds, a proposed new lending instrument—a public expenditure reform loan—would tie an institution's lending strategy to the recipient country's achieving mutually agreed-upon development goals.A foreign aid or foreign lending policy that focuses exclusively on project financing may have unintended consequences, report Devarajan and Swaroop.
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    The Perestroika of Aid?: New Perspectives on conditionality

    Christian Aid, 1999
    Reviews policy arguements on conditionality and recommends and NGO standpoint. Discussed in the context of the Wolfenson/World Bank Comprehensive Development Framework.Argues that NGOs' engagement in the conditionality debate has largely focused on concerns about donors' policy prescriptions and advocating alternatives.

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