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  Conditionality in fund-supported programs: overview

  International Monetary Fund, 2001

  This article briefly discusses the IMF's tool to reform the international financial system, conditionality.The article emphasises the importance of focusing conditionality such that it concentrates on national ownership.
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  The rebirth, or second coming of adjustment lending

  Globalization Challenge Initiative, 2001

  The article discusses the renaming, repackaging and expanding of adjustment lending. The article emphasises that it is not only the volume of adjustment lending that is expanding but also the scope of lending.The article:explores the differences between the approaches of old style adjustment and new style adjustment (i.e.
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  Overstretched and underloved: World Bank faces strategy decisions

  Bretton Woods Project, 2001

  This paper follows in the wake of a World Bank ’s restructuring and strategic planning process, which became publicly visible when the press caught onto a leaked memo expressing Bank staff dissatisfaction.
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  The challenge of maintaining long-term external debt sustainability

  World Bank, 2001

  This paper reviews experience with the first 22 countries that have reached a decision point under the enhanced Initiative for the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC).
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  Assistance to post-conflict countries and the HIPC framework

  World Bank, 2001

  This article stresses that armed conflicts in low-income countries have proliferated. This creates major health, economic and political problems.Both the Bank and the Fund have special policies and instruments in place to assist countries as they emerge from conflict. These policies and instruments have proved to be broadly effective.
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  Sharing new ground in post-conflict situations

  United Nations Development Programme, 2000

  The paper reports on the UNDP undertaking of a strategic evaluation to take stock of its experience in complex emergency situations and extract insights to improve the organization’s capacity to respond. The terms of reference for the exercise identified the reintegration of internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees and ex-combatants as the principal area of focus.
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  Integrating aid into budget management

  Oxford Policy Management, 1999

  This paper discusses how traditional donor practices can cause problems for budget planning and management in aid dependent countries. It discusses recent attempts to reform the budget process, and the donor role in it.
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  Foreign aid and development: lessons learnt and directions for the future

  Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 2000

  This book is concerned with the role and effectiveness of foreign aid in development. The papers in this volume approach aid from a variety of perspectives, attempting to address the complexity of the aid-development nexus in both the short and long run.Concludes that important elements of consensus now exist about many of the components of successful development strategies.
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  African poverty at the millennium: causes, complexities, and challenges

  Documents and Reports, 2001

  Paper addresses the following questions:Who are the poor?What are the causes of poverty?Why have both states and markets failed the poor?Why do the poor have inadequate capital?How can we sustain improvements in social indicators?How are household and population dynamics changing?What are the roles for donors and governments in poverty reduction?Conclusio
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  Hirschmanian themes of social learning and change

  World Bank, 2001

  This article positions itself within the context of discussions (inspired by Albert Hirschman) about strategies of unbalanced growth in response to the postwar theories of the “big push,” development planning, and balanced growth.

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