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Searching with a thematic focus on Structural adjustment policies, Agriculture and food, Aid and debt, Poverty

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  Economic policy, distribution and poverty: the nature of disagreements

  Department of Economics [Cornell University], 2001

  This article explores the disagreements which surround debates on poverty. It discusses the gulf between how officials and NGOs understand poverty.
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  Poverty, growth and inequity in Nigeria: a case study

  African Economic Research Consortium, 2000

  This article explores a study into poverty in Nigeria.Resulting poverty profile:male-headed households contribute over 80% to the three measures of poverty and female-headed households contribute 5-16% (keeping in mind the small size of the female sample noted above) The contribution to poverty tends to be higher in the north than in the south; while the contribution to pove
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  PRS: poverty reduction or public relations strategies?

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2000

  As a response to the criticisms from campaigning groups and NGOs throughout the world, the Boards of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund commissioned the 1999 Fundamental Review of the HIPC Initiative.
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  Polices to roll-back the state and privatise? [PRSPs]

  World Development Movement, 2001

  Short paper reviewing experience with PRSPs, based on an examination of four PRSPs and twelve interim documents, along with comments made by civil society groups from developing countries.Findings include: across highly indebted poor countries, civil society groups are unsatisfied with the extent of public involvement in drawing up the strategy papers.
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  The ABC of the PRSP

  Bretton Woods Project, 2000

  This briefing paper tries to answer the following questions:What is the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP)?How does the PRSP relate to WB and IMF lending?What is the connection between the PRSP and the HIPC Debt Initiative?What does ownership mean?Is there a tension between qualifying for debt relief and allowing time to develop a good PRSP?What will an interim PRS
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  The sustainability enigma: aid dependency and the phasing out of projects: the case of Swedish aid

  Expert Group on Development Issues, Department for International Development Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 1999

  Using interviews and evaluation materials from twelve Swedish funded projects in Tanzania as cases, this study assesses the relationship between aid dependence and project phase out performance.Findings: project phasing out is complicated by the lack of financial sustainability of the supported institutions.
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  What good can debt relief and PRSP do?: the case of Zambia

  Bread for the World, 2001

  This web resource looks into the Zambia's position of debt and the influence PRSPs and associated debt relief is having on Zambia.
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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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  PRSPs: should they carry a health warning?

  International Poverty Health Network, 2001

  This 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 i
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  Protecting the Poor During Adjustment (World Bank)

  HNPFLASH, 1999

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