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  A force for change: the Global Fund at 30 months

  The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria, 2004

  This review from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is a self-evaluation after 30 months of activity. Country profiles of the Fund’s activities in Ghana, Honduras, Indonesia, Rwanda and Zambia are also provided.
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  Land and schooling: transferring wealth across generations

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This article, a summary of the book sharing the same title, examines issues around the allocation of land and education within families.
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  The IMF: wrong diagnosis, wrong medicine

  Oxfam, 1999

  Prepared as part of Oxfam International's Education Now campaign, this briefing paper evaluates the International Monetary Fund (IMF), offering information, statistics, case studies and recommendations for change.
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  Things fall apart: collapse of the Nigerian industry

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Nigeria has plentiful natural resources, the largest domestic market in Africa and an abundant and cheap labour force. Why, then, has its industrial performance been so disappointing? What capability factors may explain this? Is there any prospect of increasing Nigeria’s industrial capacity to reverse its slide into industrial marginalisation?
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  New terms of engagement: can forest communities benefit from commercial partnerships?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Are companies who work with forest dwellers ripping them off, simply smartening up their corporate images or genuinely committed to win-win partnerships? How can communities negotiate with companies on a more equal footing? Could forests be an area for pioneering new forms of community-private partnership and local governance?
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  The IMF and World Bank: undermining democracy and rolling back the state?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Why are anti-IMF protests sweeping the developing world? Is it privileged students and anarchists who are behind the wave of unrest? Who are taking to the streets and how are their livelihoods being affected by liberalisation? Are Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) merely Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) in another guise?
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  The body [chapter in ‘Voices of the poor: crying out for change’]

  World Bank, 2000

  While it is recognised that poverty and poor health are closely linked, it is rare that the poor have the opportunity to voice their own experiences with respect to health issues. Poor people from across the world described their own health experiences in the World Bank's 'Voices of the Poor', a multi-country study of poor people's experiences of poverty.
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  The IMF funding deforestation: how International Monetary Fund loans and policies are responsible for global forest loss

  American Lands Alliance, 2001

  Report which alleges that International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans and policies have caused extensive deforestation in each of the 15 countries of Africa, Latin America, and Asia studied.This forest loss, the author claims, has occurred both directly and indirectly through:the IMF's promotion of foreign investment in natural resource sectorsausterity measures that cut spending on en
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  Energy price increases in developing countries : case studies of Malaysia,Indonesia, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Colombia and Turkey

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Six case studies show that raising energy prices to eliminate subsidies does not harm the poor, growth, inflation, or industrial competitiveness. And public revenues improve.When domestic energy prices in developing countries fall below opportunity costs, price increases are recommended to conserve fiscal revenue and to ensure efficient use of resources.
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  Budgetary institutions and expenditure outcomes : binding governments to fiscal performance

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  How institutional arrangements affect incentives governing the size, allocation, and use of budgetary resources and improve transparency and accountability binding key players to particular fiscal outcomes and making it costly for them to misbehave.Campos and Pradhan examine how institutional arrangements affect incentives that govern the size, allocation, and use of budgetary resources.

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