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The least developed countries 2000 report: aid, private capital flows and external debt: the challenge of financing development in the LDC
United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2000This Report briefly reviews economic growth and social trends in the 1990s. But it focuses in particular on the question of financing development in the least developed countries.DocumentRefugees, displaced people and international migrants changing the face of development
Centre for Developing-Area Studies, McGill University, 2000This presentation pursues two areas of reflection concerning the limitations of development strategies, both of which result from observations of armed conflicts: one is what happens to refugees, displaced persons and the diaspora (including, international migrants) and the other is what happens to the nation-state as it attempts to reconstruct and reconcile to prevent further conflict.DocumentVocational training for refugees: a case study from Tanzania
Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit, UNHCR, 2001Report concerns the evaluation of ongoing skills training programmes for the 10,000 young Burundian refugees entering adulthood each year in the refugee camps, with a view to expanding them into a wider programme based in the refugee camps.DocumentAid versus trade revisited
Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2001Examines the (non) equivalence between aid flows and trade preferences as alternative forms of donor assistance in the presence of learning-by-doing externalities in recipient country export production.DocumentPoverty alleviation in Jordan in the 1990's: lessons for the future
Workshop on the Analysis of Poverty and its Determinants in the MENA Region, 2001The purpose of this report is to draw lessons for improving the policy design of poverty alleviation schemes in Jordan.DocumentTargeting the poor beyond Gaza or the West Bank: the geography of poverty in the Palestinian Territories
Workshop on the Analysis of Poverty and its Determinants in the MENA Region, 2001This paper constructs a detailed poverty map of the West Bank and Gaza, by estimating the incidence of poverty in 132 distinct localities. It derives the estimates by combining econometric analysis of the Palestinian Households Survey with information contained in the Palestinian Census from 1997.The results suggest that the incidence of poverty indeed differs greatly across localities.DocumentPRSPs: should they carry a health warning?
International Poverty Health Network, 2001This article investigates whether the World Bank and IMF's Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) have been successful or not.The article indicates that:there has been criticism that there has been a lack of local ownership in the PRSP generation processthere has often been little, or occasionally no, participationalthough monitoring of the quality of participation in PRSPs iDocument100 percent debt cancellation?: a response from the World Bank and IMF
World Bank, 2001This short report, produced by IMF and World Bank, considers the implications of proposals to cancel 100 percent of multilateral debt.The report:sets debt relief in the context of a broad strategy to fight povertylooks at the existing approach to poor country debt relief through the HIPC Initiativeturns to the fundamental question of what would be gained by such a proposallDocumentEnvironmental policy and international trade
Brookings Institution, 1995This paper explores the empirical link between environmental policy and international trade. Using an estimated global simulation model, the paper focusses on the extent to which international trade flows are redirected as a result of unilateral versus multilateral taxes on the emission of carbon dioxide.