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  Debt sustainability in low-income countries: towards a forward-looking strategy

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003

  This paper provides a framework for discussion of the key issues that need to be taken into account in designing a forward-looking debt and borrowing strategy for low-income countries.
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  Making markets work for the poor: challenge to Sida's support to private sector development

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2003

  This report provides a basic descriptive framework and a source of knowledge on poverty focused private sector development.
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  Poverty reduction strategy papers: review of private sector participation

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003

  This study reviews the role of the private sector in the formulation, implementation and strategy articulated in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) endorsed by the World Bank and IMF. The purpose of the study is to determine whether PRSPs to date have taken adequate account of the role of the for-profit private sector in reducing poverty.
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  UK AIDS aid: an analysis of DFID HIV/AIDS expenditure

  ActionAid International, 2003

  This paper collates available information to review the UK government’s expenditure on HIV/AIDS through its Department for International Development (DFID).The paper notes that DFID’s expenditure systems do not currently provide a single accurate source of more detailed HIV/AIDS expenditure information.
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  Financing debt relief and genuine development: time to get serious?

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003

  Assessments of Africa’s financing needs and prospects for debt relief need to be put in the wider context of financing for development. The paper argues that debt relief is an important source of finance for African countries but on its own will be woefully insufficient to allow African countries to finance the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and achieve long-term debt sustainability.
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  Policy (in) coherence in European Union support to developing countries: a three country case study

  ActionAid International, 2003

  What is the impact of a range of EU policies on poor people in Bangladesh, Brazil and Kenya? This paper examines key policy areas (including trade, aid, agricultural policies and support to Foreign Direct Investment) to assess the coherence of EU policy in supporting development.
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  Towards a ten year review: synthesis report on implementation of South African government programmes

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  This review sets out to assess the extent to which the new democratic dispensation since 1994 has redirected the purpose and content of government policy and seeks to describe the impact of these changes on South African society.
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  Foreign direct investment for development: maximising benefits, minimising costs

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2002

  The benefits of foreign direct investment (FDI) do not accrue automatically and evenly across countries, sectors and local communities. The paper argues that as FDI significantly overshadows official aid, it is imperative to make FDI drive development.
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  Macroeconomic adjustment and the poor: analytical issues and cross-country evidence

  World Bank, 2002

  This paper studies the links between macroeconomic adjustment and poverty.
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  Is PRGF maximising finance for poverty reduction?

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2003

  This paper presents an analysis of the direct and indirect impacts of PRGF programmes on the mobilisation of finance needed to progress towards the MDGs. The analysis reveals that although some changes have indeed taken place since the PRGF facility was first launched, they are still too limited in scope and in depth.

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