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  Civil Society: The Development Solution?

  North-South Institute, 1996

  Paper begins with the premise that donors' current understanding of the role of 'civil society' depends not on the characteristics of the term - what it is, who is in or out - but on what Northerners are currently saying about the nature of the state at home. The argument is a familiar one - that foreign policy is often a reflection of domestic malaise.
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  Distilling the Lessons from the ESAF Reviews [IMF Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility]

  International Monetary Fund, 1998

  Paper begins with a brief summary of lessons for program design; the staff and Executive Directors are encouraged to view this as a checklist (Section II) of areas where programs need to be strengthened.
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  Evaluation reports: Australian Agency for International Development

  Australian Agency for International Development, 1998

  Series of reports on evaluation of Australian development aid including: Evaluation findings: a compilation of AusAID's evaluation and review reports 1992/97 Monitoring and evaluation capacity-building study PNG cluster evaluation of three institutional strengthening projectsThe Philippines Australia technical and vocational education project (PATVEP)
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  Putting life before debt

  Development and Peace, Canada, 1997

  Policy document from two networks of Catholic development organizations, the International Co-operation for Development and Solidarity (CIDSE) and Caritas Internationalis (CI), calling for the cancellation of the unpayable debt of the most impoverished countries by the year 2000.
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  Governance and Policy Formulation

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1997

  Summary proceedings of a 1997 meeting covering: The governance environment (including the evolving role of civil society and extra-governmental organisations) The locus of policy formulation: interface between politician and administrator Respective roles and functions of politicians, administrators and civil society: consideration of institutional issues raised by these.
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  Incentives and Provider Payment Methods [in the health sector]

  Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 1995

  The mode of payment creates powerful incentives affecting provider behavior and the efficiency, equity and quality outcomes of health finance reforms. This paper examines provider incentives as well as administrative costs, and institutional conditions for successful implementation associated with provider payment alternatives.
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  Global Economic Prospects and the Developing Countries 1997

  Prospects for Development [World Bank], 1997

  This year’s Global Economic Prospects reviews the implications for developing countries of three important changes in the world economy that globalization is bringing about. First, five large developing and transition economies -- China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, and Russia -- are likely to emerge as key players in the world economy over the next quarter century.
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  Aid, the Incentive Regime, and Poverty Reduction

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998

  Aid spurs growth and poverty reduction only in a good policy environment so it should be targeted to countries that have improved their economic policy. That aid tends to be allocated relatively indiscriminately is one factor that undermines its potential impact. Spurring growth in the developing world is one stated objective of foreign aid.
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  Poverty alleviation in Vietnam

  Micro Impacts of Macroeconomic and Adjustment Policies Programme, 1998

  Research project analysing the impacts of macroeconomic adjustment in the last few years in Vietnam on macroeconomic indicators and micro units – firm and household.WWW site has detailed results from the project and its surveys. Includes statistical indicators and poverty line data.
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  Debt Relief for Tanzania: An opportunity for a better future

  Oxfam, 1998

  The Tanzanian Government has committed itself to a long-term strategy aimed at eradicating poverty by 2025. Sectoral plans have been drawn up aimed at achieving progress towards universal primary education and the expansion of basic health services. Encouraging as such moves are, they are unlikely to succeed unless Tanzania's creditors act swiftly to reduce the country's massive debt burden.

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