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Danish Aid Policy: Theory and Empirical Evidence
Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1998Study of Danish aid policy from the early 1960s to 1995.DocumentAdjustment and Poverty in Asia: Old Solutions and New Problems
Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1998Analyses how adjustment policies affected the poor in Asian economies, focussing on the period up to 1997. It shows that there was a significant reduction in both private income poverty and social income poverty over the previous thirty years.DocumentBridging the gap?: the parallel universes of the non-profit and non-governmental organisation research traditions and the changing context of voluntary action
Centre for Civil Society, LSE, 1998Makes a set of general observations about international third sector research and argues that there are currently two 'parallel universes' of literature.DocumentWhat Explains the Success or Failure of Structural Adjustment Programs?
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998A few political economy variables can successfully predict the outcome of an adjustment loan 75 percent of the time. To select promising candidates for adjustment, the World Bank must do a better job of understanding which environments are promising for reform and which are not.DocumentDoes Economic Analysis Improve the Quality of Foreign Assistance?
Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1998The World Bank undertakes large expenditures on economic analysis and advice for its member developing countries. What is the impact of this economic and sector work on the quality of World Bank lending?DocumentAid allocation and poverty reduction
Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1998Paper derives a poverty-efficient allocation of aid and compares it with actual aid allocations.Paperuses new World Bank ratings of twenty different aspects of national policy to establish the current relationship between aid, policies and growthadds mapping from growth to poverty reduction which reflects the level and distribution of incomecompares the effect of using the heaDocumentAssessing Aid—What Works, What Doesn't, and Why
Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1998Summarizes the findings of a multi-year research program on aid effectiveness. Official Development Assistance has declined by one-third in real terms in the 1990s. There are a number of reasons for this, but one factor has been a sense that aid does not work very well.DocumentGender and Economic Adjustment in Sub-Saharan Africa
Information Bank on African Development Studies, 1994DocumentThe External Debt Problem in Central America: Honduras, Nicaragua, and the HIPC Initiative
Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1998Reviews the foreign debt burden in Central America with special emphasis on Honduras and Nicaragua, which have a large debt overhang. Several indicators suggest that this foreign debt seriously impedes economic growth in both nations.DocumentPromises to the Poor: the Record of European Development Agencies
Overseas Development Institute, 1998All the European development cooperation agencies subscribe to the international goal of reducing poverty by one half by 2015 but they have different strategies for achieving it.Pages