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    Agricultural policy in Africa after adjustment

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 2000
    This study looks at agricultural policy in Africa since structural adjustment, with the aim of drawing conclusions about policies for the post-adjustment era.The study suggests that while some of the changes brought about under agricultural structural adjustment go too far, in many other respects they do not go far enough.
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    Public opinion and development aid: is there a link?

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 2000
    The current international debate on aid to Africa seems to assume that public opinion matters, i.e. it presupposes the existence of a ‘bottom-up’ relationship between public opinion and aid policy.This paper shows that it is in fact the other way round. It is only possible to understand the relationship between decision-making on aid and public opinion as a ‘top-down’ relationship.
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    The effect of IMF and World Bank programs on poverty

    Economic Growth Project, World Bank, 2000
    Paper suggests there is no evidence for a direct effect of structural adjustment on growth. The poor benefit less from output expansion in countries with many adjustment loans than in countries with few adjustment loans. By the same token, the poor suffer less from an output contraction in countries with many adjustment loans than in countries with few adjustment loans.Why would this be?
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    Bureaucratic structure and performance

    United Nations University, 2000
    This report presents the first findings of a United Nations University project with the objectives to:undertake the first systematic data collection on bureaucratic structure and performance in Africa, with data collected from in 20 countriesexpand the existing global dataset; and, empirically assess which incentives and organizational structures of bureaucracies affect bureaucrat
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    Development effectiveness: review of evaluative evidence

    United Nations Development Programme, 2000
    Assesses current challenges and obstacles facing UNDP in achieving development effectiveness, and looks particularly at UNDP's adoption of a results-based management (RBM) system.The report:assesses how RBM is contributing to improving UNDP development effectiveness.
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    World employment report 2001: life at work in the information economy

    International Labour Organization, 2001
    The World Employment Report 2001 examines the impact of the new information and communication technologies on life at work at a time when the global employment situation still remains of considerable concern.
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    Aid, conditionality and debt in Africa

    Department of Economics [Cornell University], 2000
    This paper presents a diagnosis of the current dysfunctionalities of the aid, conditionality and debt regime in Africa. It is argued that the key feature of the current system is that of aid dependence, which is characterized as an unhealthy process of interaction which afflicts donors and recipients alike.
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    Economic policy, distribution and poverty: the nature of disagreements

    Department of Economics [Cornell University], 2001
    This article explores the disagreements which surround debates on poverty. It discusses the gulf between how officials and NGOs understand poverty.
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    The role of civil society in assessing public sector performance in Ghana: proceedings of a workshop

    Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 2000
    This article, arises from conference discussions concerning the cooperation of government, public sector, civil society and international development agencies in Ghana.
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    Debt relief and poverty reduction: meeting the challenge

    Oxfam, 1999
    For almost two decades unsustainable debt has undermined human development in many of the world's poorest countries. It remains a profound threat to the efforts of Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs) to achieve the international development targets set for the year 2015. This paper is intended as a contribution to the next phase of reform of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative.

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