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    The coherence of trade flows and trade policies with aid and investment flows: a background paper

    OECD Development Centre, 2006
    This paper provides an overview of the relationships among trade, aid and foreign direct investment (FDI), both in terms of policy interactions and interactions among resource flows.
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    A policymakers’ guide to Dutch disease

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2006
    Aimed at policy-makers, this paper tackles the issue of Dutch Disease - that is, the theory that aid flows will lead to an appreciation of the real exchange rate which can slow the growth of a country’s exports— and that aid increases might thereby harm a country’s long-term growth prospects.
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    Challenging conditions: a new strategy for reform at the World Bank and IMF

    Christian Aid, 2006
    This report argues that conditions attached to aid and loans from the IMF and World Bank are unacceptable. It calls for the UK government to reinforce its own commitment to end such conditionalities through a moritorium on its voluntary contributions to the IMF and World Bank.
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    Using ODA to promote private investment for development: policy guidance for donors

    Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2006
    This report provides guidance to members of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) on using ODA more effectively to mobilise private investment for development (investment-enhancing ODA).
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    Evaluation of general budget support: synthesis report

    DAC Network on Development Evaluation, 2006
    OECD donor countries now channel about US$ 5 billion (some 5 per cent of their aid) directly to the budgets of developing country governments.This report reflects findings from an evaluation conducted by the OECD DAC to assess to what extent, and under what circumstances, General Budget Support (GBS) is relevant, efficient and effective for achieving sustainable impacts on poverty reduction and g
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    Global monitoring report, 2006:Millennium Development Goals: strengthening mutual accountability, aid,trade, and governance

    World Bank, 2006
    This report comments on global progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), focusing on aid, trade and financial dimensions of the process. It notes that, despite commitments to raising aid effectiveness from the G8 and the Paris Declaration, the world is still far from achieving the MDGs - particularly Africa and South Asia.
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    New ideas for development financing

    Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2005
    Goal Eight of the Millennium Development Goals requires all countries to enter a global partnership for development to implement the MDGs. This partnership includes the provision of adequate resources in support of the developing countries’ own efforts.
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    Macroeconomic challenges of scaling up aid to Africa: a checklist for practitioners

    International Monetary Fund, 2006
    This handbook is intended as a practical guide for assessing the macroeconomic implications and challenges associated with a significant scaling up of aid to African countries.
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    Implementing DFID’s conditionality policy: a how-to note

    Department for International Development, UK, 2006
    On 2 March 2005 Hilary Benn launched the UK policy paper 'Partnerships for poverty reduction: rethinking conditionality'.
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    Using social transfers to improve human development

    Department for International Development, UK, 2006
    Scaling up investment in service provision and quality is necessary, but is not sufficient to achieve universal access to health and education services. Specific policies to boost demand and expand equitable access to quality health and education services are also required.

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