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    Public Environmental Expenditures: A Conceptual Framework

    Macroeconomics for Sustainable Development Programme Office, WWF, 1999
    Public spending on environmental protection is often a small fraction of total government budget in developing countries. Such spending is further reduced during the stabilization phase of macroeconomic adjustment. Increased environmental awareness calls for proper treatment of such spending, particularly during periods of financial difficulty.
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    Reports on the international financial architecture [International Financial Crisis / Transparency and Accountability / Strengthening Financial Systems]

    World Bank, 1998
    Motivated by Asian financial crisis, reports from 3 working groups examine issues related to the stability of the international financial system and the effective functioning of global capital markets.
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    Mainstreaming Public Participation in Economic Infrastructure Projects

    Overseas Development Institute, 1998
    In the last ten years, participation has become central to the social development sectors of official development assistance – smallholder agriculture, community forestry, health care, education, urban sanitation, small-scale water supplies, etc.
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    The UK White Paper on International Development - and Beyond

    Overseas Development Institute, 1998
    In November 1997, the British Government published its long-awaited White Paper on international development, the first comprehensive statement on British aid for 22 years. It has been widely welcomed as a significant shift in the orientation of British development policy and as a marker for other donors.
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    Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict: United Nations Response: Women 2000

    United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 1998
    Report considers the failure of the international community to address the issue of war-time sexual violence during the early years of the UN.
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    Gender analyis: alternative paradigms

    Gender in Development Programme, UNDP, 1998
    Comparative analysis of alternative paradigms, or conceptual frameworks used for analyzing gender issues within the development context.
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    Proposal for a Comprehensive Development Framework [for World Bank policy]: a Discussion Draft

    World Bank, 1998
    Bank proposal on way to radically change its development mandate. At its core, the framework focuses on a holistic approach to development, applied over a 10-15 year time-frame, with the country in the driver's seat and with strong partnerships among donors, the private sector and civil society.
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    How Bad Governance Impedes Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh

    OECD Development Centre, 1998
    In 1995/96, 47.5 per cent of the population of Bangladesh were still living below the poverty line. While this represents a decline compared to 62.6 per cent in 1983/84, the absolute number of poor people has in fact increased over the same period.
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    Measuring Aid Flows: a New Approach

    Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1998
    The debate on the effectiveness of foreign aid has intensified in recent years, as aid has come under increasing budgetary pressures in donor countries. Whatever the merits of the opposing arguments, the fundamental issue arises of whether the conventionally-used measures of aid such as ODA, that lump together grants and loans, accurately reflect true aid flows.
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    The Implications of Foreign Aid Fungibility for Development Assistance

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
    To address the fungibility of foreign aid funds, a proposed new lending instrument—a public expenditure reform loan—would tie an institution's lending strategy to the recipient country's achieving mutually agreed-upon development goals.A foreign aid or foreign lending policy that focuses exclusively on project financing may have unintended consequences, report Devarajan and Swaroop.

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