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  How Did Highly Indebted Poor Countries Become Highly Indebted?: Reviewing Two Decades of Debt Relief

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Theoretical models predict that countries with unchanged long-run savings preferences will respond to debt relief by running up new debts or by running down assets. And there are some signs that incremental debt relief over the past two decades has fulfilled those predictions.
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  Microfinance in the Wake of Conflict: Challenges and Opportunities

  microLINKS,, 1998

  Overview of the rapidly evolving practice of microfinance and microenterprise development in post-conflict situationsDocuments the surprisingly few preconditions these programs consider essential to initiate a microenterprise development program.
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  The impact of the penetration of the market on rural women: the case of Mbozi Rural District Mbeya, Tanzania

  Institute of Development Studies, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1998

  Looks at the effects of structural adjustment reforms on women in Tanzania.Recommendations include:government subsidy of maize fertilisersadjustment to the system of granting loans to allow access to rural womeneducation of the rural population on procedures and conditions for getting loansexemption from payment for health services for womenprovision of an adequate suppl
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  Trade Liberalization in a Dynamic Setting: Implications of a New WTO Round

  Brookings Institution, 1999

  Explores the impacts of a new WTO Round of trade liberalization over the period from 2000 to 2010, using a model that allows for short run unemployment, adjustment costs in capital formation, international flows of financial assets and forward looking expectations of the announced policy changes.
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  The performance of the Lesotho credit union movement: internal financing and external capital inflow

  Enterprise and Cooperative Development Department, Social Finance Unit, ILO, 1996

  Looks at the effects of using financial cooperatives in Lesotho as conduits for providing financial resources to the poor. The empirical study which forms the basis of this paper explores the factors that have determined the success of credit cooperatives in this country.
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  Structural adjustment and agriculture in Guyana: From crisis to recovery

  Sectoral Activities Programme, ILO, 1999

  Documents the decline and rise of the Guyanese economy, with particular focus on the agricultural sector and its contribution to employment creation and poverty alleviation. The demarcation line between decline and recovery is put at 1988 because of the adoption that year of the Economic Reform Programme, although actual recovery only started in 1990.
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  DAC scoping study of donor poverty reduction policies and practices

  Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1999

  Survey of European donors suggests that development agencies are increasingly seeking to involve partner governments and the poor themselves in translating poverty reduction aims into real benefits. Participatory approaches and gender analysis are more widespread.
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  The Commission and non-governmental organisations: building a stronger partnership

  European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 1999

  Aims to: give an overview of the existing relationships between the Commission and NGOs including some current problemssuggest possible ways to develop these relationships by considering the measures needed to improve and strengthen the existing relationship between the Commission and the NGOs.Covers both inter-European isuues and the European development cooperation program
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  Analytical history of Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) debt sustainability targets

  Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1999

  These targets are interpreted as `switching values', below which countries are (on average) expected to avoid debt service problems, but as such, they do not take into account that countries encounter debt service problems for a variety of reasons and at different levels of debt.
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  Aid effectiveness disputed

  Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1999

  There is a widespread perception among academic researchers and aid practitioners alike that empirical cross-country analysis fails to find any significant link between aid flows and growth, and that aid is successful only when associated with good policies in the recipient countries.

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