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    Paths out of poverty: the role of private enterprise in developing coutries

    International Finance Corporation, 2000
    This article emphasises that private enterprises are essential in allowing the poor to escape poverty, and looks at which conditions encourage or discourage private firms from doing business in poorer countries.Key conditions are: the state can secure contract enforcement between private parties and between private parties and the state—most basically, clearly defined property rights.
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    The ABC of the PRSP

    Bretton Woods Project, 2000
    This briefing paper tries to answer the following questions:What is the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP)?How does the PRSP relate to WB and IMF lending?What is the connection between the PRSP and the HIPC Debt Initiative?What does ownership mean?Is there a tension between qualifying for debt relief and allowing time to develop a good PRSP?What will an interim PRS
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    Financial impact of the HIPC initiative: first 22 country cases

    Debt Initiative for the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, IMF, 2001
    The report trumpets the success of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative.
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    Adjustment debate leaves World Bank behind

    Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network, 2000
    The article explores the activities of the Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Network (SAPRIN). The main role of the SAPRIN was to to legitimize a role for citizens in economic decisionmaking and to help them mobilize to play that role effectively.
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    Economists and power at the World Bank

    Development Information Update, 2000
    This article discusses some of the conflicts existing between the different economic approaches within multilateral organisations such as the World Bank (WB) and, to a lesser degree, the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The article explores the decisive schools of thought that play a central role in WB initiatives.
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    The sustainability enigma: aid dependency and the phasing out of projects: the case of Swedish aid

    Expert Group on Development Issues, Department for International Development Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 1999
    Using interviews and evaluation materials from twelve Swedish funded projects in Tanzania as cases, this study assesses the relationship between aid dependence and project phase out performance.Findings: project phasing out is complicated by the lack of financial sustainability of the supported institutions.
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    Aid dependence and governance

    Expert Group on Development Issues, Department for International Development Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 2000
    This study analyses the political economy of aid dependence. It argues that large amounts of aid, delivered to countries with weak institutions, create some of the institutional problems that lead to ineffective governance.
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    Going to scale with education reform: India's district primary education program, 1995 - 1999

    Global Education Reform [World Bank], 2001
    This article discusses the sucess of a federally launched initiative within the education system in India (District Primary Education Program (DPEP)). It seeks to understand how this success has been achieved.The author points to seven specific aspects of DPEP's design and implementation that have been behind this success:strong focus on student learing.
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    Pakistan's debt position and the question of debt retirement

    Jubilee Research, 2001
    This article explores Pakistan's debt, its crippling debt repayments and the conditionalities enforced by IMF and World Bank on Pakistan. Some of these conditionalities include:bring about structural adjustments in the economy of Pakistanreduction of budget deficits at federal and provincial levelswide spread economic reforms in Pakistan.
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    Aid and reform in Africa: lessons from ten case studies

    World Bank, 2001
    This article explores comparatively, the effect and effectiveness of aid in different African countries (10 case studies).More specifically the article investigates the following questions:are there common characteristics of successful and failed reformers that enable us to understand better the political economy of reform?do donors tailor their assistance to different types of coun

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