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  Global humanitarian assistance update 2004 -05

  Global Humanitarian Assistance, 2005

  This update contains 34 charts which aim to provide the latest information and statistics on trends in humanitarian assistance. The document considers where money is being spent, by whom and on what.The update is divided into chapters focusing on different areas of humanitarian assistance.
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  Aid for trade

  South Centre, 2005

  This briefing paper argues that the availability of trade-related assistance is not enough to fulfil the development dimension of the Doha Work Programme. It states that the provision of aid is not enough of a strategy to bring about pro-development outcomes, and that aid for trade should not be used as a carrot to offset liberalisation policies.
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  An aid-institutions paradox?: a review essay on aid dependency and state building in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2006

  In this Working Paper, the authors suggest that despite recent calls for increased aid to poor countries by the international community, there may be an aid-institutions paradox. While donor intentions may be sincere, the authors conclude that it is possible that aid could undermine long-term institutional development, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
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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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  Enhancing the development capabilities of civil society organisations, with particular reference to Christian faith-based organisations (CFBOS)

  ESRC Global Poverty Research Group, 2005

  This paper considers a recent paradigm shift favouring the role of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) as recipients and implementers of development assistance. The author focuses on the capacities and performance of the diverse group of agencies termed Christian Faith-based Organisations (CFBOs).The document considers CFBOs relative strengths and weaknesses in pro-poor development activity.
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  Lessons from gender-focused international aid in post-conflict Afghanistan…learned?

  Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., 2005

  This report discusses the problems arising from gender-based international aid in post-conflict Afghanistan. It highlights the increasing disappointment expressed by Afghans with the aid community, particularly in relation to women’s issues.
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  Aid industry reform and the role of enterprise

  Shell Foundation, 2005

  This document by the Shell Foundation discusses shows how the aid industry can put poor country entrepreneurs at the centre of the fight against poverty.
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  The market for aid: understanding aid by looking forward and looking back

  World Bank, 2005

  This short note explores trends in the aid industry, including patterns of aid flows, competition, and the effectiveness of different types of aid.
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  Food aid: doing well by doing good

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2005

  This briefing paper asks who wins and who loses in US-led food aid programmes that, by law, rely on food that is grown in the US, processed and shipped by US firms, and distributed through US-based agencies and organisations.

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