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  Boomerang aid: not good enough, Minister!

  AID/WATCH, 2005

  This briefing critically assesses Australia’s aid programme.
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  Aid and development: will it work this time?

  International Policy Network, 2005

  This paper critiques the 'gap theory' whose premise is that aid is necessary to shore up the infrastructure of developing countries, since they do not have the capital to invest in such long-term strategic goals. It argues that aid has failed to ‘fill the gap’.
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  Aid and growth: what does the cross-country evidence really show?

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2005

  This paper examines whether aid leads to growth.
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  Managing aid; practices of DAC member countries

  OECD Development Co-operation Directorate: DAC Guidelines and Reference Series, 2005

  This report aims to expand knowledge on the various practices and structures adopted by the 22 member countries of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC)1 for managing their foreign assistance to developing and transition countries. It highlights relevant work within the DAC as well as good practices or noteworthy features of particular DAC member countries’ programmes.
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  The global climate and economic development

  Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, 2005

  Using examples of climate change and its effects on developing countries this workshop report considers the tension between the need for economic growth in the developing world and the concern over increasing greenhouse gas emissions and attempts to formalise the link between poverty and environmental degradation.
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  Perfect partners? the performance of programme aid partners in Mozambique, 2004

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This report provides an assessment of the performance of donors during 2004 in Mozambique, as well as an account of Mozambican perceptions of donors’ activities.
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  Tsunami victims’ perceptions of the proposed buffer zone and its implications in eastern Sri Lanka

  South Asia Citizens Web, 2005

  This paper examines local perceptions of the proposed 200 meter buffer zone along Sri Lanka's coast, following the devastation of the Indian Ocean tsunami. The government’s decision was taken under a state of Emergency and without any consultation with the victims, their representatives, or professionals in this area.
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  The hardest job in the world: five crucial tasks for the new president of the World Bank

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2005

  At the start of Paul Wolfowitz’s tenure at the World bank, this report sets out five crucial tasks for the World Bank president over the next five years. It argues that Wolfowitz's biggest challenge will not be managing the Bank, with its 10,000 staff, but leading its shareholders, the nations of the world.
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  The Africa Commission’s ‘big push’

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This paper is critical of the Africa Commision report's tendency to present a rather unrealistic, de-contextualised vision for Africa, that treats the continent as a homogeneous mass and fails to identify clear priorities.
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  Oxfam international submission to World Bank review of conditionality, May 2005

  Oxfam, 2005

  This paper notes that, for the World Bank review on aid conditionality to make a real difference to the way the Bank operates in developing countries, it needs to set out a bold agenda, and demonstrate that the Bank will be a lead player in making aid more effective for poverty reduction.

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