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    The ghost of financing gap : how the Harrod - Domar growth model still haunts development economics

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
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    Political, economic and social institutions : a review of growth evidence

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998
    Integrates North's institutional framework with the notion of institutions in the augmented Solow growth model, to clarify the direct and indirect channels by which institutions influence growth. Four ways to extend the Solow model in order to incorporate a rôle for institutions are outlined; and growth regressions are reinterpreted in this light.
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    Transient seasonal and chronic poverty of peasants : evidence from Rwanda

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997
    Using panel data from Rwanda, we estimate seasonal transient and chronic poverty indices,  for different poverty line, poverty indicators, equivalence scale, and with and without the corrections for price variability and for the sampling scheme. We also estimate sampling standard errors for the poverty indices. The worse poverty crises occur after the dry season at the end of the year.
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    Does "getting prices right" work? : micro evidence from Ghana

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995
    The question posed in this paper is whether structural adjustment programs have had the consequences policy intended and theory predicts. It uses evidence from a micro survey of manufacturing firms in Ghana to assess whether policy has effected an expansion of the exportable sector within manufacturing, the growth of small firms and an increase in exports and investment.
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    Short - term stabilization versus long - term price stability : evaluating Namibia's membership of the Common Monetary Area

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995
    It was found in this paper that (i) because of the high degree of openness of the Namibian economy and its small size, the use of nominal exchange rate as an instrument of adjustment will have limited effects; (ii) that the costs associated with the loss of monetary autonomy are small; and (iii) that there exists a wide range of instruments to address the effects of asymmetric shocks, irrespective
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    The Asian crisis and Human Development

    East Asia Crisis Workshop, IDS, 1988
    Paper aims to analyse the nature of pro-Human Development adjustment in the five countries seriously affected by the crisis: Thailand, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. The effects of the crisis on Human Development depend critically on macro-economic developments.
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    Strengthening National Capacity for HIV/AIDS Strategic Planning

    HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 1998
    Strategic Planning is essential for a effective response to the epidemic. UNDP has extensive experience and long involvement in the strengthening of national planning capacity in all operational regions.
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    Policy Rules and Bidding Behaviour in the Ethiopian Foreign Exchange Auction

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998
    Ethiopia adopted a repeated Dutch auction for foreign exchange in May, 1993. Various African countries with rudimentary financial systems and thin foreign exchange markets have successfully employed auctions in transition from centralised, controlled systems to decentralised interbank markets. This paper characterises the rules, regime shifts and auction outcomes in Ethiopia.
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    Debt relief: UK Government's Response to the Third Report from the Select Committee on International Development

    International Development Committee, UK, 1998
    The International Development Committee reported to the House on Debt Relief in its Third Report of Session 1997-98, published on Thursday 14 May 1998. The Government response to that Report was received on Monday 20 July 1998. It is reproduced as Appendix 1 to this Special Report.
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    The Civil Society Agenda: Switching Gears In The Post Cold War World

    North-South Institute, 1997
    Why are donors talking about civil society? There are a number of factors that may explain the cornucopian expectations - dramatic contextual changes in the way that Northerners, especially Americans, are understanding society's relationship with the state. This collage of factors has led to a series of conclusions about what civil society can do to redress social ills.

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