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  Economic Policy Reform and Growth Prospects in Emerging Africa Economies

  OECD Development Centre, 1999

  Assesses the prospects for growth of African economies up to the year 2010 by modelling structural and policy determinants of growth, under different scenarios for changes in the exogenous factors and economic policies which shape the projections. To this end we estimate a growth model for 39 African economies, during seven five-year periods from 1960 through 1995.
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  UNDP and Governance: Experiences and Lessons Learned

  Management & Governance Network, UNDP, 1998

  Traces the evolution of UNDP’s approach to governance and to summarise the key trends and programme activities which have been identified as elements necessary for the achievement of sustainable human development.
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  Making Adjustment Work for the Poor

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  Many developing countries are engaged in structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) sponsored by the IMF and World Bank.
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  Oxfam International submission to the Heavily Indebted Poor County (HIPC) Debt Review

  Oxfam, 1999

  Proposes a simple mechanism to improve the HIPC framework: a human development window within HIPC. The overarching aim of the human development window is to incorporate the HIPC initiative into a global strategy for poverty reduction, geared towards the realisation of the targets set by UN Summits, and adopted by the OECD group of industrialised countries.
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  Debt relief for Rwanda: an opportunity for peace-building and reconstruction

  Oxfam, 1999

  Paper is prompted by a growing concern that an unsustainable debt burden is one of the factors which jeopardise reconstruction efforts in Rwanda, and that debt relief could be a crucial element of a wider strategy of international engagement, aimed at encouraging respect for human rights and building peace. The paper argues that existing debt relief mechanisms are not being fully utilised.
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  Creation of Land Markets in Transition Countries: Implications for the Institutions of Land Administration

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999

  Describes (1) the processes of privatization of land management in selected transition countries and (2) the post-privatization changes in land administration institutions which are being crafted to establish land markets.
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  The global economic impacts of trade and financial reform in China

  Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australia, 1998

  Despite the setbacks from the recent Asian currency crisis, the ascendancy of Asia as an economic centre of world economic activity is likely to continue into the 21st century. A key issue that will shape the role of Asia, and indeed the shape of the world economy in the 21st century, is the economic development of China.
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  Uncertainty of Aid Inflows and the Aid-Growth Relationship

  Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 1999

  Argues that it is not the level of aid flows per se but the stability of such flows that determines the impact of aid on economic growth. Three measures of aid instability are employed. One is a simple deviation from trend, and measures overall instability. The other measures are based on auto-regressive estimates to capture deviations from an expected trend.
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  Governance and Economic Performance: A Survey

  Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung, Bonn, 1999

  Presents a framework for analyzing the determinants and effects of public governance and a survey of recent theoretical and empirical studies pertaining to developing and transition countries.
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  Governance in Thailand: challenges, issues and prospects

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 1999

  Overview of the major governance issues currently confronting the Thai Government, with particular emphasis upon the issues likely to be of greatest interest to international donors such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

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