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  Eighth Session of the ECA Conference of Ministers of Finance (Finance for Development in Africa - An issues paper)

  Financing for Development, 2000

  The aim of this Issues Paper is to review the mix of actions necessary to finance the developmental goals of Africa and to present policy options for the consideration of African Finance Ministers.Policy recommendations:While it is essential to mobilise all domestic resources to reduce the resource gap this will only be feasible in the long term.
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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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  External shocks, financial crises, and poverty in developing countries

  World Bank, 2000

  This chapter ('External Shocks, Financial Crises and Poverty in Developing Countries'), of the World Bank report on 'Global Economic Prospects and Developing Countries':Reviews evidence about the impact on poverty of the external shocks and volatility to which developing countries are exposedPresents and assesses evidence of the impact of the 1997-98 financial crisis on poverty, in the
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  Rethinking small enterprise development: between poverty and growth

  Centre of African Studies, Edinburgh, 1998

  The current policy fascination with pro-poor growth has important implications for the small enterprise development field.
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  The financial crisis and its impact on growth and development, especially in the developing countries

  Financing for Development, 2000

  This article outlines the impact the financial crisis has had on growth and development, especially in developing countries.Conclusions:Given the inherent instability of international capital movements, recent experience shows that any country closely integrated into the global financial system is susceptible to financial crises and currency turmoil.
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  The impact of economic integration on FDI and exports: a gravity approach

  Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, 2000

  This paper uses the gravity-model approach to deal with two issues related to economic integration. The first concern is to analyse the impact on FDI stocks of specific variables denoting the will to integrate, and their relative impact on exports.
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  The effect of IMF and World Bank programs on poverty

  Economic Growth Project, World Bank, 2000

  Paper suggests there is no evidence for a direct effect of structural adjustment on growth. The poor benefit less from output expansion in countries with many adjustment loans than in countries with few adjustment loans. By the same token, the poor suffer less from an output contraction in countries with many adjustment loans than in countries with few adjustment loans.Why would this be?
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  Financial sector prepares for regional integration, harmonises policies

  Southern African Research and Documentation Centre, 1999

  A special report that looks at southern Africa as it moves closer and closer to a common market. The question of institutional reform is expanding from the usual issues concerning tariff reduction to include the need for harmonisation of payment systems.[author]
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  Strengthening Africa's participation in the global economy

  United Nations University, 1998

  This policy brief is intended to assist African governments in efforts to strengthen their participation in the global economy in ways that bring widespread and sustainable benefits to their peoples. It stems from two issuesthe forces of globalization are perhaps the most important factors that affect the current environment for economic developmentthere are lessons from Southeast A
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  Implications of the currency crisis for exchange rate arrangements in emerging East Asia

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  This article emphasises that more effort should be made to develop a framework for international monetary coordination, not only to maintain stable exchange rates among the U.S.

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