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  A joint submission to the World Bank and IMF Review of HIPC and Debt Sustainability

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2002

  Urges that a clear link be established between MDGs, the HIPC review, and the sustainability of debt relief. It reccommends a series of steps to mobilise necessary financial flows, and proposes that the World Bank and IMF and their shareholders ought to radically alter the way in which debt relief is calculated and provided.
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  PRSP: beyond the theory: practical experiences and positions of involved civil society organisations

  Bread for the World, 2002

  This report argues that the PRSP process is built on a 'trickle-down' theory, with ‘pro-poor growth’ being put forward as a solution to poverty reduction. The emphasis here, is that countries will strive to create a conducive macro-economic environment for investment, and that the market will take care of the rest.
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  Blinding with science or encouraging debate: how World Bank analysis determines PRSP policies

  Bretton Woods Project, 2002

  This paper argues for a more inclusive approach toward World Bank research and policy analysis, emphasising that NGOs, parliamentarians and other interested parties should focus more attention on the analytical work conducted or commissioned by the World Bank in their countries or sectors which may influence negotiations and financial allocations.Furthermore, recipient countries ought to be al
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  Remittances and other financial flows to developing countries

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 2002

  This paper examines the flows of migrants' remittances in relation to other financial flows to developing countries. Since remittances by unofficial channels by all estimates are significant, the remittance amounts reported here are quite conservative. Official estimates of migrants’ remittances are in the order of US$ 100 billion annually, some 60 percent of which go to developing countries.
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  Reducing poverty: is the World Bank's strategy working?

  Panos Institute, London, 2002

  For over 70 countries producing a Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), approved by the World Bank and IMF, is either a condition for getting debt relief, or a condition for receiving concessional loans and some aid.
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  Taken for granted?: US proposals to reform the World Bank's IDA examined

  Bretton Woods Project, 2002

  This report reviews the main debates for and against increasing the grant element of international development assistance (IDA).Those supporting the US proposal to increase the grant element of IDA to 50% agree that grants are a more appropriate way of providing assistance for long-term needs. Grants are advocated as a means to stop debt build up or enhance debt forgiveness.
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  Putting sustainable development first: why countries' ability to sustain debt should be assessed from a sustainable development perspective

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2002

  Short briefing on the intrinsic link existing between debt sustainability and sustainable development. It shows how the use of a ‘bottom-up’ approach to debt sustainability can present this relationship explicitly while at the same time giving a more precise account of what constitutes an affordable level of debt from a sustainable development perspective.
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  The NEPAD, gender and the poverty trap

  Alternative Information & Development Centre, South Africa, 2002

  This paper explores what it calls the 'gender-blindness' of the NEPAD framework. It explores the way in which parts of its underlying framework and objectives undermine a gender equality agenda.In the first section, the author examines the main features of the economic paradigm underpinning the NEPAD (also referred to as “the plan”) from a gender perspective.
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  Restructuring Uganda's debt: the commercial debt buy-back operation

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  The paper describes Uganda’s buy-back operation in detail and concludes that the offer by the Government of Uganda to buy-back its uninsured commercial debt at a discount of 88 percent of face value was extremely successful. Of the total eligible debt of US$188 million, debt worth US$153 million was bought back, reflecting a participation rate in excess of 80 percent.
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  The sustainability of the current account deficit and external debt in Vietnam

  Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2001

  The objective of this study is to examine Vietnams current account deficit and external debt sustainability in the 1990s, and the period 2001-10.The study finds that: During 1989-99, the current account deficit and external debt of Vietnam were sustainable. In general, imports were substantially restrained in comparison with the levels it could have reached, except for the year 1996

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