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  Understanding cross-sector partnerships for development

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Cross-sector partnerships between communities, corporations, governments, donors and civil society organisations are being promoted as means for sustainable development. They offer a new approach that challenges the traditional donor-recipient relationship. However, there is little solid research to indicate which partnership models have the greatest potential to eradicate poverty.
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  Destroy and profit: wars, disasters and corporations

  Focus on the Global South, 2006

  This publication addresses some of the key issues and challenges that accompany post war and post disaster reconstruction programmes.
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  Service delivery environments: the case of Nepal

  Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2004

  This DFID study examines the challenge of maintaining services for poor people in conflict-affected areas of Nepal. The report describes the different approaches development agencies have taken to supporting service delivery and draws attention to key issues that should be considered for future support.
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  A new agenda to eradicate poverty in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Over 75 million more Africans lived in poverty at the end of the 1990s than a decade earlier. Increasing aid and reforming trade through international campaigns and donor programmes is not working. The role of the state must be changed if poverty in Africa is to be reduced.
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  Afghanistan, Inc: a Corpwatch investigative report

  Corporate Watch, 2006

  This investigative report argues that Afghans are losing their faith in the development experts whose job is to reconstruct and rebuild their country. While the quality of life for most is modestly improved, they were promised much more.
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  Report on aid effectiveness and corruption in developing countries

  European Parliament, 2006

  This Report from the European Parliament’s Committee on Development calls on the Commission to focus address the issue of corruption and aid.
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  The Palestinian war-torn economy: aid, development and state formation

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2006

  This study considers the background to the Palestinian Authority (PA), institution building and reform and development policy. The authors recommend that the PA complement short-term emergency responses with long-term planning and policies that focus on poverty reduction and employment growth.
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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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  Does foreign aid reduce poverty?: empirical evidence from nongovernmental and bilateral aid

  International Monetary Fund, 2005

  This document assesses the effectiveness of foreign aid in reducing poverty through its impact on human development indicators. The authors use a dataset of both bilateral aid and NGO aid flows.The results show that NGO aid significantly reduces infant mortality while bilateral aid does not.
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  Governance, development and aid effectiveness: a quick guide to complex relationships

  Overseas Development Institute, 2006

  This short guide to governance development and aid effectiveness considers the relationship which has risen up in the international policy arena. The document considers the definitions of good governance and the varying models used by different countries.

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