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  Online database of World Bank Impact evaluations

  World Bank, 2005

  The Poverty Analysis, Monitoring and Impact Evaluation Thematic Group in the World Bank has launched a new online-searchable database of impact evaluations. This database provides access to impact evaluations of World Bank-supported interventions and impact evaluations undertaken by World Bank staff over the past few years.
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  Is India’s central debt sustainable? revisiting an old debate

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2005

  In the light of a recently changes outlook for growth and interest rates, this paper revisits the proposition that India’s debt problem is unsustainable.
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  Contractionary currency crashes in developing countries

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2005

  This paper was presented as the Mundell-Fleming Lecture at the IMF Annual Research Conference. This paper begins with the question of why currency contractions are so politically costly? According to the author, updating a previous statistic, a political leader in a developing country is twice as likely to lose office in the 6 months following a currency crash as otherwise.
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  From earmarked sector support to general budget support: development partners experience

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004

  This report analyses how a change of aid modality towards general budget support would affect the dialogue and technical cooperation in priority aid sectors. It draws on experience from Norwegian partner countries, Tanzania in particular.
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  Toilet wars: urban sanitation services and the politics of public-private partnerships in Ghana

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper examines the impact of the new forms of partnership between the public authorities and private/citizen-based organisations on urban environmental sanitation in the two largest cities of Ghana, namely, Accra and Kumasi.
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  Empirical assessment of sustainability and feasibility of government debt: the Philippines case

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2005

  This paper assesses empirically the sustainability and feasibility of the government debt situation in the Philippines.
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  International Finance Facility: CAFOD response

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2005

  This policy brief explores the features of the International Finance Facility (IFF), and explains how it can be a very imaginative response to the problem of meeting the Millennium Development Goals.Characteristics of the IFF are: it is a scheme to raise funds for development by selling on international capital markets bonds secured against long-term commitments by donor governments
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  Addressing the challenges of globalisation: an independent evaluation of the World Bank’s approach to global programmes

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 2004

  This World Bank’s Operations Evaluation Department report reviews the performance of 26 of the 70 Bank-supported global programmes, including Roll Back Malaria; the Global Forum for Health Research; the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria; the Global Environment Facility; and the Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research.Findings include:programmes delive
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  On the brink: weak states and US national security

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2004

  This report outlines shortcomings in the United States’ policy towards nations on the verge of collapse or recovering from conflict, and presents an action framework for improvement.The Commission identified three capability gaps that differentiate a troubled or weak state from simply a poor one:the security gap: where the state is failing to control territory and protect citizens from
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  Country ownership of reform programmes and the implications for conditionality

  Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four, 2003

  This paper explores conditions for the elimination of traditional conditionality and the possibility for doing so in the context of ensuring country ownership of reform programmes.

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