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  Review of Nordic monitoring of the World Bank and IMF support to the PRSP process

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2003

  This report details the first joint Nordic monitoring of the World Bank and IMF support to the PRSP process in seven countries: Bolivia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia.
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  Hiding public debt

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2002

  This paper examines the determinants of hidden public debt that is, government financial commitments and contingent liabilities that do not receive official recognition and explicit budgetary allocations but are later assumed by the government as additional debt outside the normal budget.
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  Exploring the role of development cooperation agencies in corporate responsibility

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004

  The paper examines what donors are doing to promote and enable corporate responsibility. It presents findings from a conference held in March 2004.
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  Private sector development study: Angola

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004

  This study summarises the historical, political and economical background in Angola of relevance to the prevailing conditions for private sector development.
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  One step forward, two steps back: ownership, PRSPs and conditionality

  World Vision, 2004

  This paper examines whether changes to lending processes by the Bretton Woods international financial institutions (IFIs) have succeeded in increasing the country 'ownership' and poverty focus of IFI-funded development programmes.Focussing primarily on the policies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, the paper finds that there has been very little change in the IFIs’ po
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  Money talks: how aid conditions continue to drive utility privatisation in poor countries

  ActionAid International, 2004

  This study of the World Bank and IMF’s own reports finds that the continued use of loan conditionality to impose the privatisation of water, electricity and other utility services on developing countries occurs in a number of ways:in some cases utility privatisation is explicitly included in key documents outlining loan conditions, at times ignoring outcomes of the PRSP consultations and
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  Debt sustainability in low-income countries: proposal for an operational framework and policy implications

  International Monetary Fund, 2004

  This paper develops an operational framework for debt sustainability assessments in low-income countries and draws policy implications for donors, creditors, and borrowers.
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  To lend or to grant?: a critical view of the IMF and World Bank’s proposed approach to debt sustainability analyses for low-income countries

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2004

  This paper critiques a new framework to debt sustainability developed by the IMF.It welcomes elements of the new approach:the HIPC Initiative’s debt-to-exports criterion, was a weak predictor of future debt sustainability.
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  Creating a financial bridge to the private sector

  Global Philanthropy and Foundation Building, Synergos Institute, 2000

  This chapter from the book 'Foundation building sourcebook: a practitioners guide based on experience in Africa, Asia and Latin America' describes several approaches to building a financial bridge between the private sector and community development initiatives.
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  Reality and analysis: personal and technical reflections on the working lives of six women

  Poverty, inequality and development research at Cornell University, 2004

  A group of development analysts – researchers, activists, and practitioners - engaged in an unusual exercise in early 2004. They had a dialogue about labour market, trade and poverty issues, but they preceded the dialogue with exposure to the realities of the lives of six host women in Gujarat: Dohiben, Kalavatiben, Kamlaben, Kesarben, Leelaben and Ushaben.

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