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Searching with a thematic focus on Aid and debt, Globalisation, Poverty

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  Policies and strategies for poverty reduction in Norwegian development aid: a review

  Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway, 1999

  Paper provides an overview of Norwegian policiesand strategies for poverty reduction.
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  Attacking Poverty: World Development Report 2000/2001

  World Development Report, World Bank, 2000

  The report builds on the view that poverty means not only low incomes and low consumption but also lack of education and poor nutrition and health.
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  SAPRIN challenges World Bank on failure of adjustment programs

  Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network, 2000

  This article emphasises the extent to which poverty, inequality and human suffering have increased in countries implementing the adjustment programs, that the international financial institutions (IFIs) had required as a condition for continued access to foreign capital.Conclusions:Designed to open and restructure economies on behalf of international investors, adjustment program
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  The determinants of the national position of Brazil on climate change : empirical reflections

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997

  International negotiations on the Framework Convention on Climate Change have been characterized by severe polarization between developed and developing countries. The G77, led by major countries such as Brazil, India, and China, illustrated a remarkable capacity to manifest its importance in the final text of the Convention.
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  UNDP Human Development Report 1999

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1999

  Focuses on issues of inter-dependence and globalisation. Considers how markets have been allowed to dominate the process, and the benefits and opportunities have not been shared equitably. Argues that while many millions of people are being further marginalized by their lack of access to new technologies, including the Internet, growing inequalities are not inevitable.
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  Environmental change and human health in countries of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP)

  Stockholm Environment Institute, 1999

  Aims to first briefly describe the broad global, economic, political, social, institutional context in which ACP countries currently find themselves. Describes the health status and key health threats in ACP countries in an environmental context and reviews environmental developments in the region and the ways in which they are influencing health.
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  Eliminating world poverty: making globalisation work for the poor

  DFID White Paper on Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalisation Work for the Poor, 2000

  While progress has been made over the years in development, many challenges yet remain in order to make globalisation work for the poor.
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  Liberalization, Globalization and Income Distribution

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 1999

  Recent mainstream analyses of changes in income distribution over the post World War II period have concluded that income inequality within countries tends to be stable, that there is no strong association between growth and inequality and that, therefore, poverty is best reduced through growth-oriented, rather than distributive, policies.This paper challenges this view.
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  Globalisation, poverty and inequality in Zambia during the 1990s

  OECD Development Centre, 2000

  Zambia has undergone a dramatic transformation of economic policy during the 1990s. The election in 1991 of the Movement for Multi-party Democracy government saw the introduction of a series of major economic reforms designed to transform the Zambian economy from a relatively inward looking and state dominated economy to an outward oriented economy based upon private enterprise.
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  Globalization, poverty and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: a political economy appraisal

  OECD Development Centre, 2001

  Paper explores the policies and political context underlying the response of African countries to globalisation, with an emphasis on trade liberalisation.African countries have had mixed experiences with globalisation, with some achieving better social outcomes than others.

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