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Searching with a thematic focus on Aid and debt, Aid effectiveness, Finance policy

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  Are donor countries giving more or less aid?

  International Monetary Fund, 2006

  This working paper looks at how the volume of foreign aid has increased during the last four decades, albeit with interruptions in certain years.
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  The cost of poverty: transaction costs and the struggle to make aid work in the education sector in Tanzania

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2005

  This paper explores transaction costs (TCs) in the Tanzanian education sector.
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  Aid effectiveness: can aid agencies be smarter than the invisible hand?

  Public Policy for the Private Sector [World Bank], 2005

  Private financial flows such as foreign direct investment seem to encourage economic growth and relieve poverty in part because they create excellent incentives for transferring know-how and in part because they are subject to a stern market test that ensures they are allocated and monitored carefully.
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  Improving the dynamics of aid: towards more predictable budget support

  World Bank, 2005

  This paper considers approaches towards improving the predictability of aid to low income countries, with a special focus on budget support.
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  Tax evasion, tax avoidance and development finance

  Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2005

  This paper considers the effects of tax avoidance and evasion on the financing of development.
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  Effective states building: forging engaged societies

  World Bank, 2005

  This report of the Task Force on Capacity Development in Africa analyses four decades of capacity development experience in Africa and offers key messages for African countries and their international partners that should underpin a renewed effort to develop, use, and retain capacity for development in Sub Saharan Africa.
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  Aftershocks: natural disaster risk and economic development policy

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This briefing paper considers when and where economics gives more attention to natural disasters.
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  Effective aid and decentralization in Ethiopia

  Mokoro, 2005

  This paper reviews the issues raised and the conclusions reached by a recent education study in Ethiopia. The study considered the concerns surrounding aid and direct budget support (DBS) within this and other sectors of development.
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  Aid modalities in Ethiopia

  Development Cooperation Ireland, 2005

  This study provides an assessment of the changing environment for aid planning and management in Ethiopia during 2002–2004.
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  Pity the Finance Minister: issues in managing a substantial scaling up of aid flows

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2005

  This paper is based on the rationale that substantially scaling up of aid flows will require development partners to address many issues, including the impact of higher aid flows on the competitiveness of aid recipients; the management of fiscal and monetary policy; the delivery of public services; behavioral incentives; and the rate of growth of the economy.

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