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    Rethinking small enterprise development: between poverty and growth

    Centre of African Studies, Edinburgh, 1998
    The current policy fascination with pro-poor growth has important implications for the small enterprise development field.
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    Public opinion and development aid: is there a link?

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 2000
    The current international debate on aid to Africa seems to assume that public opinion matters, i.e. it presupposes the existence of a ‘bottom-up’ relationship between public opinion and aid policy.This paper shows that it is in fact the other way round. It is only possible to understand the relationship between decision-making on aid and public opinion as a ‘top-down’ relationship.
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    Bureaucratic structure and performance

    United Nations University, 2000
    This report presents the first findings of a United Nations University project with the objectives to:undertake the first systematic data collection on bureaucratic structure and performance in Africa, with data collected from in 20 countriesexpand the existing global dataset; and, empirically assess which incentives and organizational structures of bureaucracies affect bureaucrat
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    Development effectiveness: review of evaluative evidence

    United Nations Development Programme, 2000
    Assesses current challenges and obstacles facing UNDP in achieving development effectiveness, and looks particularly at UNDP's adoption of a results-based management (RBM) system.The report:assesses how RBM is contributing to improving UNDP development effectiveness.
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    Reports on the performance on aid and cooperation policies of OECD donor countries

    Reality of Aid, 2000
    Short reports on aid from northern donor countries.
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    Aid, exports and growth in Ghana

    Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2001
    A number of recent cross-country studies have revitalised the debate on the effectiveness of aid. While there is mounting evidence that aid does contribute to growth, there is some dispute as to whether good policy is a necessary condition for aid effectiveness.This paper is a contribution to the literature, providing a time series study of Ghana.
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    Conflict prevention: commission initiative to improve EU’s civilian intervention capacities

    European Union, 2001
    The Commission today adopted a Communication on Conflict Prevention. This document contains a comprehensive review of all the recent initiatives undertaken by the Community to promote peace and stability. The communication proposes a consolidated and realistic approach of the EU to conflict prevention.
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    Aid, policy and peace

    World Bank, 2000
    Analyzes theoretically and empirically the effects of economic policy and the receipt of foreign aid on the risk of civil war.Study finds that aid and policy do not have direct effects upon conflict risk. However, both directly affect the growth rate and the extent of dependence upon primary commodity exports, and these in turn affect the risk of conflict.
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    The sustainability enigma: aid dependency and the phasing out of projects: the case of Swedish aid

    Expert Group on Development Issues, Department for International Development Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 1999
    Using interviews and evaluation materials from twelve Swedish funded projects in Tanzania as cases, this study assesses the relationship between aid dependence and project phase out performance.Findings: project phasing out is complicated by the lack of financial sustainability of the supported institutions.
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    Aid dependence and governance

    Expert Group on Development Issues, Department for International Development Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 2000
    This study analyses the political economy of aid dependence. It argues that large amounts of aid, delivered to countries with weak institutions, create some of the institutional problems that lead to ineffective governance.

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