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  Analysis of and recommendations for covering security relevant expenditures within and outside of official development assistance

  Bonn International Center for Conversion, 2007

  This report discusses the inclusion of security-related assistance with respect to Official Development Assistance (ODA).
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  Understanding the politics of the budget: What drives change in the budget process?

  Department for International Development, UK, 2007

  This briefing note distills the findings of several political analyses of the budget process in developing countries and highlights why a good political understanding of theset processes is important to improve aid effectiveness.
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  Pro-poor Growth: a focal point of development policy

  Bundesministerium fur wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung, 2006

  This briefing paper provides an introduction to concepts of "pro-poor growth" (PPG) as a strategic approach to development. It discusses alternative definitions of PPG and considers important factors in putting the PPG approach into operation.
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  Maximising aid effectiveness in microfinance

  Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest, 2005

  Five core elements of effective support for microfinance systems are described in this donor briefing.
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  The implications of horizontal inequality for Aid

  Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity, CRISE, Oxford University, 2006

  This paper argues that the reduction of Horizontal Inequalities (HIs), or inequalities between culturally defined groups, should inform aid policy in heterogeneous countries with severe HIs.
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  Kicking the habit: how the World Bank and the IMF are still addicted to attaching economic policy conditions to aid

  Oxfam, 2006

  Despite numerous commitments to reform, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), with the tacit approval of rich-country governments, are still using imposing conditions on aid.This paper reviews the evidence on the extent and nature of loan conditionality, and then uses the case study of Mali to highlight the damage caused by the imposition of policy conditions.The paper fi
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  Evaluating co-ordination and complementarily of Country Strategy Papers with National Development Priorities

  Department for International Development, UK, 2006

  This study examines the role which the Country Strategy Papers (CSPs) and similar policy documents of the EC play in improving coordination and complementarity between EC and member states’ aid programmes.
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  Does the IMF cap health spending in developing countries?

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2006

  Most of the recently negotiated International Monetary Fund (IMF) programmes include a ceiling which limits the opportunities for countries to utilise increasing aid, including billions of dollars for prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS.
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  Making fiscal space happen: managing fiscal policy in a world of scaled-up aid

  International Monetary Fund, 2006

  The G8 countries have committed to double aid flows to developing countries by 2010. Although these funds offer great opportunities to recipient countries, aid inflows of such magnitude pose significant macroeconomic challenges to low income countries (LIC).
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  Rebuilding developmental states: from theory to practice

  Overseas Development Institute, 2006

  This paper discusses the role of the state in promoting development and what the international aid community can, to help build stronger, more effective and better governed states in the developing world. It draws together academic research and recent evidence on the role of the state in developing countries and reviews how the current aid system interacts with states.

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