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    Analysing the UN tsunami relief fund expenditure tracking data: Can the UN be more transparent?

    International Budget Partnership, 2006
    This report summarises an analysis by the International Budget Project of the UN’s real-time database for tracking expenditures for the tsunami relief program.
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    Saving lives, relieving suffering, protecting dignity: DFID’s humanitarian policy

    Department for International Development, UK, 2006
    This policy statement details how DFID plans to prioritise and deliver its humanitarian work in the future, focusing on the poorest countries.
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    Challenging conditions: a new strategy for reform at the World Bank and IMF

    Christian Aid, 2006
    This report argues that conditions attached to aid and loans from the IMF and World Bank are unacceptable. It calls for the UK government to reinforce its own commitment to end such conditionalities through a moritorium on its voluntary contributions to the IMF and World Bank.
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    Real aid: making technical assistance work

    ActionAid International, 2006
    This report argues that aid provided by governments needs to target poverty directly rather than expensive and often ineffective western consultants, research and training.By drawing on international statistics, and carrying out its own investigations in four developing countries, the authors argue that rich countries' "technical assistance" consultants, research and training too often promotes
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    Competitive proliferation of aid projects: a model

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2006
    The proliferation of aid projects often burdens recipient governments with reporting requirements, donor visits, and other administrative costs, siphoning off scarce domestic recipient resources from directly productive use.
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    Aid scaling up: do wage bill ceilings stand in the way?

    International Monetary Fund, 2006
    This paper assesses whether the scaling up of aid and the resulting increase in government spending that is needed to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) would be hampered by wage bill ceilings that are often part of government programmes supported by the IMF's Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF).Based on country case studies for 2003-05, the paper suggests that, in the past,
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    Aid Watch annual report 2005

    AID/WATCH, 2006
    This annual report reviews the activities of Aid Watch over the course of 2005.The report reviews campaigns including:Asian tsunami'land is life' in Papua New Guinea boomerang aiddebt aid monitoringThe report also looks ahead at activities in the upcoming year as well as financial statements.
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    Service delivery environments: the case of Nepal

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2004
    This DFID study examines the challenge of maintaining services for poor people in conflict-affected areas of Nepal. The report describes the different approaches development agencies have taken to supporting service delivery and draws attention to key issues that should be considered for future support.
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    Development aid and economic growth: a positive long-run relation

    Social Science Research Network, 2006
    This paper analyses the growth impact of official development assistance to developing countries.
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    Afghanistan, Inc: a Corpwatch investigative report

    Corporate Watch, 2006
    This investigative report argues that Afghans are losing their faith in the development experts whose job is to reconstruct and rebuild their country. While the quality of life for most is modestly improved, they were promised much more.

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