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    Improving the dynamics of aid: towards more predictable budget support

    World Bank, 2005
    This paper considers approaches towards improving the predictability of aid to low income countries, with a special focus on budget support.
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    What undermines aid's impact on growth?

    National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2005
    The question of why it is so hard to find a robust effect of aid on the long-term growth of poor countries, even those with good policies is one with resonance in the light of current plans to scale up aid flows to Africa and other developing regions. This paper aims to answer this question, using a methodology that exploits both cross-country and within-country variation..
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    Tax evasion, tax avoidance and development finance

    Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2005
    This paper considers the effects of tax avoidance and evasion on the financing of development.
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    Effective states building: forging engaged societies

    World Bank, 2005
    This report of the Task Force on Capacity Development in Africa analyses four decades of capacity development experience in Africa and offers key messages for African countries and their international partners that should underpin a renewed effort to develop, use, and retain capacity for development in Sub Saharan Africa.
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    Empowering developing countries to lead the aid partnership

    Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2005
    In spite of recent initiatives to harmonise donor practices and align aid behind a PRSP-based partnership between developing country governments and donors, there is no systematic monitoring by developing country governments, at an individual country level, of whether donors are living up to their pledges on aid quality and support for the PRSP framework, or behaving consistently across countries.
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    Scaling up aid for trade: how to support poor countries to trade their way out of poverty

    Oxfam, 2005
    The notion of aid for trade covers many different types of intervention other than simply the distribution of money and goods. These include capacity and infrastructural-building initiatives, such as enhancing worker skills, modernising customs systems, building roads and ports, and improving agricultural productivity and export diversification.
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    Predictable funding for humanitarian emergencies: a challenge to donors

    Oxfam, 2005
    This short paper focuses on one the upgrading of the existing UN Central Emergency Revolving Fund (CERF) to a new Central Emergency Response Fund. The authors argue that UN Member States should together commit US$1 billion into the new CERF.
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    Aftershocks: natural disaster risk and economic development policy

    Overseas Development Institute, 2005
    This briefing paper considers when and where economics gives more attention to natural disasters.
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    Stingy samaritans: why recent increases in development aid fail to help the poor

    Global Policy Forum, 2005
    This paper presents an overview of development assistance and its targeting and geographical allocation from 2000-2005.
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    Humanitarian and reconstruction assistance to Afghanistan, 2001-05: from Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2005
    This report, initiated by The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Danida), the Development Cooperation Ireland (DCI), the Netherlands’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID), presents the findings of an Evaluation of their assistance to Afghanistan over 2001-early 2005.Main recomme

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