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  Challenging conditions: a new strategy for reform at the World Bank and IMF

  Christian Aid, 2006

  This report argues that conditions attached to aid and loans from the IMF and World Bank are unacceptable. It calls for the UK government to reinforce its own commitment to end such conditionalities through a moritorium on its voluntary contributions to the IMF and World Bank.
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  The handshake: why do governments and firms sign private sector participation deals? Evidence from the water and sanitation sector in developing countries

  World Bank, 2006

  This paper uses a new dataset, "WATSAN," of private sector participation (PSP) projects for water and sanitation in developing countries to examine the determinants of the number of projects signed for each country between 1990 and 2004.
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  Destroy and profit: wars, disasters and corporations

  Focus on the Global South, 2006

  This publication addresses some of the key issues and challenges that accompany post war and post disaster reconstruction programmes.
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  Bretton Woods Reform: sifting through the options in the search for legitimacy

  Overseas Development Institute, 2006

  This Briefing Paper reviews the challenges facing the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and its continued raison d'etre and then focuses on two current proposals to change formal representation on the Board.According to the paper, threats to the IMF include:the massive accumulation of foreign exchange reserves by Asian and other regional economies, which have dwarfed the IMF’s resources
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  Sequencing fiscal decentralization

  World Bank, 2006

  This paper looks at how a fiscal decentralisation programme should be sequenced and implemented.The authors argue that the sequencing of decentralisation policies is an important determinant of its success.
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  The determinants of economic development: institutions or geography

  Università Politecnica delle Marche, Dipartimento di Economia, Ancona, Italy, 2004

  The paper gives an overview of current debates, which examine whether the quality of institutions or geographical factors are more important in determining long term economic growth. Referring to a number of empirical studies, the paper argues that geography is a more important factor than the quality of institutions.
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  What happens when public expenditure is scaled up?: an enquiry into the costs and costeffectiveness of expenditure in phases of expansion

  Overseas Development Institute, 2006

  Using the case studies of primary education, road maintenance and child immunisation, the author asks whether the costs of providing public services in low-income developing countries tend to rise when expenditure on these services increases.
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  Governance reform and institutional change in Brazil: fiscal responsibility and tax

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006

  This paper contrasts two processes of governance reform that occurred in Brazil in the 1990s, one in relation to fiscal responsibility, the other in relation to tax.
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  Privatisation of water: public-private partnerships: do they deliver to the poor?

  Development Fund, Norway, 2006

  This document discusses three main themes: how privatisation has been promoted by international financial institutions and other donors as a strategy for financing water services; the effects on the poor of different kinds of privatisation of water services in developing countries; and policy recommendations for the provision of water to the poor.The report shows that the World Bank acknowledge
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  Global monitoring report, 2006:Millennium Development Goals: strengthening mutual accountability, aid,trade, and governance

  World Bank, 2006

  This report comments on global progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), focusing on aid, trade and financial dimensions of the process. It notes that, despite commitments to raising aid effectiveness from the G8 and the Paris Declaration, the world is still far from achieving the MDGs - particularly Africa and South Asia.

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