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    Understanding Impact: Experiences and Lessons from the Small Enterprise Foundation’s Poverty-Alleviation Programme, Tšhomišano

    Small Enterprise Foundation, 1999
    Paper produced for the Third Virtual Meeting of the CGAP Working Group on Impact Assessment Methodologies.Describes the implementation of microfinance programme and discusses the measurement of it's impact.
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    Structural adjustment and agriculture in Guyana: From crisis to recovery

    Sectoral Activities Programme, ILO, 1999
    Documents the decline and rise of the Guyanese economy, with particular focus on the agricultural sector and its contribution to employment creation and poverty alleviation. The demarcation line between decline and recovery is put at 1988 because of the adoption that year of the Economic Reform Programme, although actual recovery only started in 1990.
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    Assessing the Poverty and Vulnerability Impact of Micro-credit in Bangladesh: A case study of BRAC

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    Presents the main argument that micro-credit contributes to mitigating a number of factors that contribute to vulnerability, whereas the impact on income-poverty is a function of borrowing beyond a certain loan threshold and to a certain extent contingent on how poor the household is to start with.This argument is illustrated by complementing the existing literature with some empirical
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    African Mining in the Late 1990s: A Silver Lining ?

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999
    Paper describes in detail the current structure of ownership and control in African mining and mining processing, post-1994 restructuring in the South African industry, the current exploration boom in Africa and the tension between large-scale industrial and small-scale "artisanal" mining.
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    Privatisation and foreign direct investment in mainland Tanzania, 1992-98

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999
    Information is supplemented by a sketch of the non-privatisation based foreign direct investment (FDI) position over the same period. Privatisation revenue roughly accounted for a third to a half of all FDI.
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    Capital Controls: Country Experiences with Their Use and Liberalization

    International Monetary Fund, 2000
    Aims to develop a deeper understanding of the role that capital controls may play in coping with volatile movements of capital, as well as complex issues surrounding capital account liberalization. It provides a detailed analysis of specific country cases to shed light on the potential benefits or costs of capital controls, including those used in crisis situations.
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    A guide to budget work: a systematic overview of the different aspects of effective budget analysis

    International Budget Partnership, 1999
    Introduction to the activities and approach an organization might want to undertake in its first few years of budget work. The purpose is to present a systematic overview of the different aspects of effective budget analysis, with an emphasis on initial steps.
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    International financial institutions reform: report of the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, March 2000

    International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, US Congress (Meltzer Commission), 2000
    Report recommends many far-reaching changes to improve the effectiveness, accountability, and transparency of the financial institutions and to eliminate overlapping responsibilitiesThe report looking at the future of seven key institutions: theInternational Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank Group, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank,
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    Inflation and the Poor

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
    Presents evidence that supports the view that inflation makes the poor worse off.
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    Unorthodox microfinance: the seven doctrines of success

    Microbanking Bulletin, 2000
    Argues for a radical reform of the orthodox approach of using financial services to achieve poverty alleviation. prospect of a competitive market with different institutional playersMany credit unions are sceptical of conventional microfinance lore.

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