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    Decentralization and corruption: evidence across Countries

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
    The relationship between decentralization of government activities and the extent of rent extraction by private parties is an important element in the recent debate on institutional design.The theoretical literature makes ambiguous predictions about this relationship, and it has remained virtually unexamined by empiricists.
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    Growth is good for the poor

    Economic Growth Project, World Bank, 2000
    This paper investigates the link between income of the poor and overall income (per capita GDP).
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    Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook

    Poverty Reduction Strategies and PRSPs, PovertyNet, World Bank, 2001
    Developing or strengthening a poverty reduction strategy is on the agenda of about 70 low-income countries, as a requirement for receiving debt relief under the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative (HIPC) and concessional assistance from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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    Dollars, dialogue and development: an evaluation of Swedish programme aid

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 1999
    Programme aid - that is, import support, debt relief and budget support - has constituted a considerable part of Swedish aid in the 1990's. However, the volumes of programme aid have fallen both in relative and absolute terms during this same period. Few evaluations have assessed how different modalities of programme aid further economic growth and sustainable development.
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    Eliminating world poverty: making globalisation work for the poor

    DFID White Paper on Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalisation Work for the Poor, 2000
    While progress has been made over the years in development, many challenges yet remain in order to make globalisation work for the poor.
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    Evaluation of EC food aid, food security policy, food aid management and programmes in support of food security

    European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 2000
    This reports on an evaluation of EC food aid, food security policy, and food aid management.Summary of main findings:the Regulation stipulates the policy of the European Commission as far as it concerns its food aid (other than for humanitarian and emergency reasons) and the Food Security Programme. This policy is defined within the international policy environment on food security.
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    Democratic decentralisation

    Center for International Development, Research Triangle Institute (RTI), 1997
    suggests that the strategic objective that democratic decentralization serves is to broaden legitimacy, transparency, and accountability within the political systems of the countries where the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing development assistance.Article explores Research Triangle Institute's (RTI) engagement in a task to clarify how and under what circu
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    Africans query World Bank, IMF governance mantra

    Bretton Woods Project, 2001
    This article discusses the recent trip of President James Wolfensohn and IMF Managing Director Horst Koehler to Mali and Tanzania to meet 22 African leaders in February. The theme of their visit was discussions concerning good governance.Ironically, the efforts to listen to civil society groups directly were minimal.
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    Learning in development co-operation

    Expert Group on Development Issues, Department for International Development Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 2000
    This volume contains 16 articles, in which professionals with long experience of working with development assistance, inside and outside donor and recipient agencies, present their personal reflections and ideas about learning, with examples from rural China to the World Bank headquarter in Washington.Five factors are singled out as particularly prominent constraints on organisational learning
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    Corruption : the issues

    OECD Development Centre, 1997
    Corruption comes in many varieties. In different countries it has different determining factors, forms and impacts on development. In any given context, effective policy design calls for an accurate understanding of how corruption functions in that context.

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