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Searching with a thematic focus on Finance policy in Mozambique

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    Co-operation or competition? Microfinance developments in Southern Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Microfinance institutions (MFIs) began as community-based savings and credit organisations: working practices were defined by local needs. What has changed? Microfinance now focuses on financial sustainability and some MFIs have become banks - of a sort. Others have developed cooperative linkages with commercial banks. What are the long-term implications of these changes?
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    World Bank and IMF agricultural reforms: contributing to famine?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The focus of the UN summit in Johannesburg in September 2002 was ‘people, planet and prosperity’, yet at the same time, Johannesburg is the staging post for millions of tonnes of UN food aid. About 13 million people in southern Africa face severe food shortages and famine. What are the causes of this crisis and who is responsible?
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    The IMF and World Bank: undermining democracy and rolling back the state?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Why are anti-IMF protests sweeping the developing world? Is it privileged students and anarchists who are behind the wave of unrest? Who are taking to the streets and how are their livelihoods being affected by liberalisation? Are Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) merely Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) in another guise?
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    Tourism, local livelihoods, and the private sector in South Africa: case studies on the growing role of the private sector in Natural Resources Management

    Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003
    Looks at how changing institutional arrangements and policies affect poor people's livelihoods and access to natural resources.It addresses tourism in South Africa, and the growing role of the private sector in natural resource management.
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    Economic linkages between South Africa and Mozambique

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2002
    The study tries to address, amongst other questions, what the weaknesses and strengths of integration of the two economies are.
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    PRSP: beyond the theory: practical experiences and positions of involved civil society organisations

    Bread for the World, 2002
    This report argues that the PRSP process is built on a 'trickle-down' theory, with ‘pro-poor growth’ being put forward as a solution to poverty reduction. The emphasis here, is that countries will strive to create a conducive macro-economic environment for investment, and that the market will take care of the rest.
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    Prospects for financial sector reform in the context of regional integration in SADC

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2001
    This paper looks at the role that SADC can realistically play in developing the financial systems of the countries of Southern Africa.
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    Dollars, dialogue and development: an evaluation of Swedish programme aid

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 1999
    Programme aid - that is, import support, debt relief and budget support - has constituted a considerable part of Swedish aid in the 1990's. However, the volumes of programme aid have fallen both in relative and absolute terms during this same period. Few evaluations have assessed how different modalities of programme aid further economic growth and sustainable development.

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