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  G8 Communique: more and better aid?

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2005

  This brief assesses the G8 Communique of the 2005 summit.
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  Gendered implications of tax reform in Latin America: Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Jamaica

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005

  In the context of Latin American and Caribbean countries, this paper proposes that the most effective means for reducing class- and gender-based poverty and inequality is citizenship-based entitlements to basic (i.e.
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  Aid instruments in fragile states

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This paper by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) describes the limitations of current approaches to aid instruments and discusses the emerging understanding of their use within fragile states.
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  Nine African budget transparency and participation case studies

  Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2005

  The findings from this study explore budget transparency from the ordinary citizen's perspective. It sheds some light on information required to engage meaningfully with budgetary and other decisions involving public resources from the ordinary citizen's perspective.
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  The political economy of the budget process in Mozambique

  Oxford Policy Management, 2005

  This paper discusses the nature of the budget process in Mozambique, a highly aid-dependent developing country with weak institutions.
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  The politics of service delivery reform

  Development and Change Journal, 2004

  This article, published in Development and Change, identifies the leaders, supporters and resisters of public service reform, drawing principally on research from Ghana, Zimbabwe, India and Sri Lanka. It finds that reform was often constrained by a lack of political commitment and by the interests embedded in existing organisational arrangements.
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  The business of higher education: a study of public-private partnerships in the provision of higher education in South Africa

  Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2005

  This study explores public-private partnerships that existed between 2002 and early 2003 in higher education provision in South Africa.
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  Anarchy and invention: how does Somalia’s private sector cope without government?

  Public Policy for the Private Sector [World Bank], 2004

  This document explores how the Somali private sector can function without any government in place.
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  Civil society, democratisation and foreign aid in Africa

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This paper critically examines the current donor practice of funding civil society organisations as a way to influence govenment policy and to create more citizen involvement in public affairs.
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  Corporate governance and secondary privatization in transition

  Regional Think Tanks Partnership Program, Russian Federation, 2004

  The authors examine trends in post-privatisation changes in the ownership structures of privatised enterprises (so called secondary privatisation) and their relationship to the quality of corporate governance in transition countries, with particular attention to Poland and Russia.The study focuses on the mutual effects of ownership consolidation processes and the evolution of corporate governan

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