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  UNDP's Experience in Supporting Governance and Reconciliation Programmes in Countries in Special Circumstances

  Management & Governance Network, UNDP, 1999

  In the recent past, UNDP has designed, implemented and supported programmes to promote governance and reconciliation initiatives in countries in conflict or undergoing economic transition.
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  The Search for the Key: Aid, Investment, and Policies in Africa

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Aid does not necessarily finance investment, and investment does not necessarily promote growth. But the combination of private investment, good policies, and foreign aid is quite powerful.
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  Economic Policy Reform and Growth Prospects in Emerging Africa Economies

  OECD Development Centre, 1999

  Assesses the prospects for growth of African economies up to the year 2010 by modelling structural and policy determinants of growth, under different scenarios for changes in the exogenous factors and economic policies which shape the projections. To this end we estimate a growth model for 39 African economies, during seven five-year periods from 1960 through 1995.
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  UNDP and Governance: Experiences and Lessons Learned

  Management & Governance Network, UNDP, 1998

  Traces the evolution of UNDP’s approach to governance and to summarise the key trends and programme activities which have been identified as elements necessary for the achievement of sustainable human development.
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  Uncertainty of Aid Inflows and the Aid-Growth Relationship

  Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 1999

  Argues that it is not the level of aid flows per se but the stability of such flows that determines the impact of aid on economic growth. Three measures of aid instability are employed. One is a simple deviation from trend, and measures overall instability. The other measures are based on auto-regressive estimates to capture deviations from an expected trend.
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  Governance and Economic Performance: A Survey

  Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung, Bonn, 1999

  Presents a framework for analyzing the determinants and effects of public governance and a survey of recent theoretical and empirical studies pertaining to developing and transition countries.
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  Aid and Reform in Africa

  Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1999

  Since the early 1980s, virtually every African country has received large amounts of aid aimed at stimulating policy reform. The results have varied enormously. Ghana and Uganda were successful reformers that grew rapidly and reduced poverty. In other countries policies changed little or even got worse.
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  Politics and poverty: a background paper for the World Development Report 2000/1

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  Report is a synthesis of the conclusions of a research project on the responsiveness of political systems to poverty reduction prepared for DFIDPolicy issues include: Democracy has differential outcomes for the poorStates create and shape the political opportunities for the poorThere is no reason to expect that decentralisation will be pro-poorThere is a wide range of possib
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  Good governance and anti-corruption: the road forward for Indonesia

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 1999

  Summarizes the recent progress (post 1998) made by Indonesia in combating corruption in Indonesia and outline a course for future action. Considered in the context of the ADB's anti-corruption policy efforts. Includes reports on donor assistance and decentralisation policies
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  The Leadership Factor in African Policy Reform and Growth

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1999

  In 1997 the World Bank’s two vice-presidents for Sub-Saharan Africa attributed a significant improvement in Africa’s growth prospects to the advent of a new generation of leaders, replacing their “once largely statist and corrupt” predecessors. This paper begins by tracing the evolution of African chief executives over the past two decades.

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