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  Turning off the taps: donor conditionality and water privatisation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

  ActionAid International, 2004

  This paper examines the long-standing trend of international aid donors to demand that recipient countries privatise basic services and liberalise economies. These demands have been enforced through donor conditionality.
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  The fiscal effects of aid in Malawi

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This paper explores how development aid has affected fiscal policy in Malawi over the period 1970-2000. In order to do so, it uses a so-called vector autoregression (VAR), or more precisely a vector error correction (VEC) framework.
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  ODA and investment for development: what guidance can be drawn form investment climate score boards?

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004

  This paper explores to what extent investment climate scoreboards provide adequate guidance For FDI and ODA considerations.
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  Impoverishing a continent: the World Bank and the IMF in Africa

  Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2004

  This paper critically assess IMF and World Bank policies of the last decades. In doing so the paper highlights the dominance of the U.S. within the IMF and World Bank.
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  New sources of development finance: funding the Millennium Development Goals

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This policy brief summarises the key findings of an analysis of the possible implications of new sources of development financing.
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  Donors and childhood poverty in sub Saharan Africa: approaches and aid mechanisms in Ghana and Tanzania

  Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004

  This paper study examines how selected donors approach poverty affecting children, and how they use aid to tackle child poverty through support to particular activities and through the aid instruments.
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  The missing link in growth and sustainable development: closing the gender gap

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2004

  This issues paper discusses how to take gender into consideration when addressing growth issues and how to close the gender gap in African development.
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  The Poverty Reduction Strategy Initiative: an independent evaluation of the World Bank’s support through 2003

  World Bank, 2004

  The Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) Initiative aims to make World Bank aid more effective in reducing poverty.
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  Blocking progress: how the World Bank and International Monetary Fund are undermining the fight against HIV/AIDS

  ActionAid International, 2004

  This ActionAid briefing explores how International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan conditions to developing countries are undermining the fight against HIV/AIDS. The author argues that the global community is ready to scale-up levels of foreign aid to help poorer countries finance the much needed greater public spending to fight HIV/AIDS.
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  Debt sustainability and financing terms in IDA14

  International Development Association, 2004

  This paper looks at how to best incorporate debt vulnerability considerations into the work of the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank's lending arm for the poorest countries.

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