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    UNDP Poverty Report 2000: Overcoming Human Poverty

    Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 2000
    Argues that a new global strategy against poverty needs to be mounted - with more resources, a sharper focus and a stronger commitment. Based on commitments made at the 1995 World Summit for Social Development, developing countries are being encouraged to launch full-scale campaigns against poverty.
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    Assessing trends in EC development policy: an independent review of the European Commission’s external aid reform process

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2000
    Review of recent efforts to reform the European Commission's external assistance, both in terms of strategy (what is the added value of EC aid?) and management (how should the Commission organise itself?)Recommends six key areas for reform: refine the EC policy frameworkintroduce a radical new approach to programminguse complementarity as a strategic management toolensure th
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    NGOs and Peace Building in Complex Political Emergencies: Final Report to the Department for International Development

    Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2000
    Assesses the contribution of NGOs to peace-building and the ways in which NGOs, and the donors who support them, might strengthen that contribution. The overall study attempted to assess the impacts of NGOs on peace and conflict.
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    An end to forgotten emergencies?

    Oxfam, 2000
    As Western countries have got richer in the past ten years, the proportion of their wealth spent on humanitarian aid has gone down by 30%. The number of forgotten emergencies looks set to increase. The required response is not aid alone. Oxfam continues to press for international efforts to prevent conflict, tackle poverty, and promote respect for human rights. Yet humanitarian aid remains vital.
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    Reaching out to children in poverty. The integrated child development servicesin Tamil Nadu, (ICDS)

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2000
    Programme has been offering a package of of services related to human resource development - health , nutrition, and education - for children, adolescent girls and and women.
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    The status of sector wide approaches: a framework paper

    Overseas Development Institute, 2000
    Paper is an outcome of the informal Like-Minded Donor Working Group on the Implementation of Sector Wide Approaches (SWA).
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    The Political Economy of Policy Failure in Zambia

    Swedish Working Papers in Economics, 2000
    Zambia’s experience in the 1990s illustrates that, on their own, policy changes will not redress decades of mismanagement, especially when the degree of commitment of the elite remains unaltered.In 1991, the Movement for Multiparty Democracy won the elections on a reform platform, promising to reverse the economic decline and to introduce more inclusive politics.
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    Developing Small Dams and Social Capital in Yemen: Local Responses to External Assistance

    International Association for the Study of Common Property, 2000
    This paper examines six cases of small dam development along small seasonal rivers (wadi) in the rugged mountainous province of Al-Mahweet in north central Yemen.Development of small dams is a current priority of the Government of Yemen and various foreign donors.
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    Taxation, aid and democracy: an agenda for research in African countries

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 2000
    Taxation, aid and democracy are closely related in poor aid-dependent African countries.
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    Sector support: from policy making to implementation processes

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999
    Discusses issues facing donors in their assessment of national sector policies and capacities prior to and during sector support in low-income countries (LICs).The paper analyzes the reality of policy making and implementation.

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