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  Effective development assistance: a guide to aid instruments

  HLSP Institute, UK, 2005

  This CD-Rom, produced by the HLSP provides a structured overview of the key aid instrument and development assistance issues.
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  Aid effectiveness and health

  World Health Organization, 2007

  This paper discusses the key challenges in the provision of more effective aid for health. It examines the complexities of the health sector, the challenges to making aid effective and recent efforts to address these issues. The paper demonstrates that aid effectiveness is particularly challenging in health, partly because of the inherent complexities of the sector itself.
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  Confronting the contradictions: the IMF, wage bill caps and the case for teachers

  ActionAid International, 2007

  IMF restrictions on recurrent government spending are working against the MDGs, and Education for All, this report argues.
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  Paying for people: financing the skilled workers needed to deliver health and education services for all

  Oxfam, 2007

  In this briefing paper, Oxfam considers the extent of the problem of staff shortages in developing countries’ public services, and the resources and funding mechanisms required to address the gap.
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  Using aid to prevent conflict

  Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity, CRISE, Oxford University, 2007

  This policy brief explores how aid can be used to prevent conflict by contributing to a fair distribution of resources across different groups in society.  It explains why inequalities between groups, or ‘horizontal inequalities’, need to be addressed in aid policy, and sets out how this can be done.
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  Eldis key issues page: aid effectiveness and education

  Eldis Education Resource Guide, 2007

  Donors and partner countries are seeking ways to maximise the effectiveness of aid. New aid instruments are being applied to the education sector of various developing countries. This key issue page examines the growing body of literature on the issue and presents a number of case studies and guidelines for effective delivery of aid for education.
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  Last in line, last in school. How donors are failing children in conflict-affected fragile states

  International Save the Children Alliance, 2007

  Conflict-affected fragile states (CAFS) are home to half of the world’s out-of-school population – 39 million children – yet receive only one fifth of total education aid.
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  Is there persistance in the impact of emergency food aid: evidence on consumption, food security and assets in rural Ethiopia

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2006

  This paper explores the presence of persistent impacts of two food aid programmes: the Employment Generation Schemes (EGS) and free food distribution (FFD), which were implemented following the 2002 drought in Ethiopia. It looks specifically at:
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  Managing the exchange rate consequences of an MDG-related scale-up in HIV/AIDS financing

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006

  This conference paper from UNDP’s International Poverty Centre is the first in a four-part series on macroeconomic policies in low-income countries that restrict the scaling up of financial resources for an expanded response to HIV. The paper argues that, although increased aid inflows do carry potential hazards, proper economic management can counteract potential negative effects.
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  Aid, Budgets and Accountability: A Survey Article

  Development Policy Review, 2006

  This article surveys the recent literature on the scaling up of aid and improving its effectiveness. The author concludes that recent assessments of the effectiveness of General Budget Support (GBS) as an aid modality indicate that it has some significant but limited impacts on macroeconomic stability and government spending in priority sectors.

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