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    Do the new uniforms fit? The state's changing role in healthcare provision in Ghana

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How and why is the role of government in health service provision changing? This question and the problems of change are being examined by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine researchers in the case of Ghana. Their work forms one of several country case studies on the health sector undertaken as part of a wider research programme on the Role of Government in Adjusting Economies.
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    The Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism (SDRM) vs an international fair and transparent arbitration process (FTAP)

    International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity, 2003
    This joint CIDSE and Caritas Internationalis background paper on debt restructuring gives a critical analysis of the most recent proposals (April 2003) from the IMF for a Sovereign debt restructuring mechanism (SDRM).Among the key criticisms are:the proposals would involve a cumbersome decision-making procedure that retains some of the inequities of existing processes.
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    The coordination of monetary and fiscal policies in Egypt

    Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES), Egypt, 2001
    This paper assesses the coordination of monetary and fiscal policies in Egypt during the 1990s when the Economic Reform and Structural Adjustment Program was adopted.
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    Privatisation and indigenous ownership: evidence from Africa

    Centre on Regulation and Competition, Manchester, 2002
    This paper focuses on the potential for the Zambian government to use privatisation as a means to promote indigenisation. It provides a discussion of privatisation and presents a typology of the measures that can be used to promote indigenisation.
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    Contract enforcement, institutional stability, and the level and maturity of international debt

    Global Development Network, 2002
    What is the effect of contract enforcement and institutional stability on the level and maturity of international debt? Enforcement along with other political and institutional factors have been considered important in speeding up economic growth, as countries with weak contract enforcement and unstable institutions have low investment rates and slow growth.
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    General budget support evaluability study phase 1: final synthesis report

    Oxford Policy Management, 2002
    A significant proportion of bilateral aid is increasingly being committed to General Budget Support (GBS), but is this a suitable, effective and sustainable means of channelling international support to poverty reduction?
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    Norwegian views on Poverty Reduction Strategy Processes in partner countries

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2001
    This document presents an overview of Norwegian views in order to promote national poverty reduction strategies (PRSs) in partner countries, and the relationship with Norwegian development co-operation at the country level.The paper asserts that national ownership of strategies and development efforts, and recipient responsibility are necessary conditions for achieving poverty reduction.
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    Far from home: do foreign investors import higher standards of governance in transition economies?

    Social Science Research Network, 2002
    This paper argues that while a number of recent studies have shown that corruption inhibits foreign direct investment (FDI), comparatively little attention has been given to the behavior of those who have invested in corrupt countries.
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    Poverty: bridging the gap

    Department for International Development, UK, 2001
    These guidance notes discuss how the principle of poverty elimination can be put into practice.
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    Do IMF-supported programs help make fiscal adjustment more durable?

    International Monetary Fund, 2003
    This paper investigates fiscal developments in 112 countries during the 1990s to discover whether IMF-supported programmes help make fiscal adjustment more durable.It finds that, while the overall fiscal balance improved in most of them, the composition of this improvement differed.

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