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    What did structural adjustment adjust?: the association of policies and growth with repeated IMF and World Bank adjustment loans

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2002
    This paper analyses some particular characteristics of IMF and World Bank adjustment loans and attempts to explain the relationship between adjustment policies and growth in developing countries. In particular, this study considers the repetition of adjustment loans to the same country not effective at generating the growth necessary to service the debt.
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    Sovereign debt restructuring mechanism: further considerations

    International Capital Markets, IMF, 2002
    This paper from the International Capital Markets, Legal, and Policy Development and Review Departments revisits the rationale for the Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism (SDRM) and distills a number of its key features.It discusses the scope of debt to be covered under the SDRM, with particular focus on the treatment of domestic debt and debt owed to bilateral official creditors.
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    A guide to gender-sensitive microfinance

    Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2002
    There is ample evidence that microfinance programmes should be highly targeted to the specific context and group of people they are operating with.The FAO Socio-economic and Gender Analysis (SEAGA) Programme has carried out a guide to gender-sensitive microfinance in order to ensure that:socio-economic and gender issues are taken into account when starting or developing a microfinance p
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    An analysis of IMF conditionality

    Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 2002
    When the IMF was established as an institution for monetary cooperation there was no reference to conditionality.
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    HIPC initiative: the IMF’s response to critics

    International Monetary Fund, 1998
    This document provides a list of IMF’s responses to the most common critics to the HIPCs Initiative.
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    Budget support versus project aid: a theoretical appraisal

    International Monetary Fund, 2001
    Foreign aid has had at best a mixed impact on developing countries. One reason for the frequent failures of aid to bring about pro-poor social programmes is that aid programmes do not always create the right incentives for recipients to implement social programmes.
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    Moving to budget support

    Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2001
    How can we support poverty reduction programmes while building the capacity of local institutions and promoting accountability? This policy document was written by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
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    Financial crises and poverty in emerging market economies

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2002
    This study analyses the impact of the principal financial crises on the incidence of poverty in emerging markets. The growth impact is first identified by comparing average per capita growth in the two years prior to the crisis to that in the crisis year and the following year.
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    Policy selectivity foregone: debt and donor behaviour in Africa

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2002
    On the premise that aid is more effective when the recipient country’s policy and institutional environment satisfies some minimal criteria, this paper:assesses the dynamic behind the high net resource transfers of donors and creditors to the countries of sub-Saharan Africa in the 1980s and 1990sanalyses a panel of 37 recipient countries over the years 1978-98The key findings o
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    Managing fiduciary risk when providing direct budget support

    Department for International Development, UK, 2002
    The increasing adoption of poverty reduction strategies presents an important opportunity to reform the relationship between donors and developing countries. Donor assistance should be provided in a way that builds, rather than undermines, recipients’ sustainable capacity to design and implement these strategies.

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