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    Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Governance Programming

    Institute on Governance, 1999
    Review of experience of projects aimed at developing governance and policy-forming capacity in Africa (particularly World Bank experience).Finds that governance failures in SSA are often attributable in whole or in part to:governments’ unwillingness to make themselves accountable to the citizens they are supposed to servethe inability of citizens and of the organizations and institu
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    Decentralization and corruption: evidence across Countries

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
    The relationship between decentralization of government activities and the extent of rent extraction by private parties is an important element in the recent debate on institutional design.The theoretical literature makes ambiguous predictions about this relationship, and it has remained virtually unexamined by empiricists.
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    Growth is good for the poor

    Economic Growth Project, World Bank, 2000
    This paper investigates the link between income of the poor and overall income (per capita GDP).
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    Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook

    Poverty Reduction Strategies and PRSPs, PovertyNet, World Bank, 2001
    Developing or strengthening a poverty reduction strategy is on the agenda of about 70 low-income countries, as a requirement for receiving debt relief under the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative (HIPC) and concessional assistance from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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    Dollars, dialogue and development: an evaluation of Swedish programme aid

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 1999
    Programme aid - that is, import support, debt relief and budget support - has constituted a considerable part of Swedish aid in the 1990's. However, the volumes of programme aid have fallen both in relative and absolute terms during this same period. Few evaluations have assessed how different modalities of programme aid further economic growth and sustainable development.
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    Eliminating world poverty: making globalisation work for the poor

    DFID White Paper on Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalisation Work for the Poor, 2000
    While progress has been made over the years in development, many challenges yet remain in order to make globalisation work for the poor.
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    Food reserves in Mozambique?

    European Food Security Network / Réseau Européen de Sécurité Alimentaire, 1999
    Looks at how emergency food reserves might be considered within the Mozambican Government's Food Security and Nutrition Strategy (ESAN).
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    Evaluation of EC food aid, food security policy, food aid management and programmes in support of food security

    European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 2000
    This reports on an evaluation of EC food aid, food security policy, and food aid management.Summary of main findings:the Regulation stipulates the policy of the European Commission as far as it concerns its food aid (other than for humanitarian and emergency reasons) and the Food Security Programme. This policy is defined within the international policy environment on food security.
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    Democratic decentralisation

    Center for International Development, Research Triangle Institute (RTI), 1997
    suggests that the strategic objective that democratic decentralization serves is to broaden legitimacy, transparency, and accountability within the political systems of the countries where the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing development assistance.Article explores Research Triangle Institute's (RTI) engagement in a task to clarify how and under what circu
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    Africans query World Bank, IMF governance mantra

    Bretton Woods Project, 2001
    This article discusses the recent trip of President James Wolfensohn and IMF Managing Director Horst Koehler to Mali and Tanzania to meet 22 African leaders in February. The theme of their visit was discussions concerning good governance.Ironically, the efforts to listen to civil society groups directly were minimal.

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