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    The quality of aid: towards an agenda for more effective international development co-operation

    Christian Aid, 2000
    This report brings together the main findings and recommendations from three case studies on the quality of British and European Community (EC) aid to India, Ethiopia and Mozambique.The case studies demonstrated thatthe EC aid programme is showing extremely worrying trends of shifting funding away from the poorest countries in favour of middle income countriesinvestment in the socia
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    Strengthening the knowledge and information systems of the urban poor (KIS)

    Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2002
    Poor men and women living in urban informal settlements do need knowledge and information to cope with risks and improve their livelihoods, but they sometimes find it hard to access. How do the urban poor obtain information and develop knowledge? Do they get what they require and is it appropriate?
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    Financing for development: finding the money to eliminate world poverty

    International Development Committee, UK, 2002
    UK government commitee finds that meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will require an additional US$50 billion in aid per year, a doubling of current aid levels.
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    G8 Africa Action Plan

    Group of 8 Information Centre, 2002
    Agreement from the G8 Group on the implementation of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), produced at the G8 Summit meeting in June 2002
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    IDA's partnership for poverty reduction: an independent evaluation of fiscal years 1994-2000

    Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 2002
    This study examines the last seven years of IDA’s work, assessing its relevance (did it do the right things?) and its efficacy and efficiency (did it do things right?).It finds that the period under review has been one of considerable change.
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    On the empirics of foreign aid and growth

    Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2002
    Looks at three issues in the aid effectiveness debate: the theoretical case for foreign aid. Using an endogenous growth version of the standard overlapping generations model, we show that aid can be an effective policy tool in spurring growth in poor countries.
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    Grants: a better way to deliver aid

    International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, US Congress (Meltzer Commission), 2002
    The World Bank should move toward providing international development aid in the form of performance-based grants instead of loans. Performance-based grants would cost the same as traditional loans but they would deliver more benefits to the global poor.
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    The role and effectiveness of development assistance

    World Bank, 2002
    Examines a broad range of evidence on both the successes and failures of development assistance over the past 50 years.
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    NORAD’s good governance and anti-corruption plan 2000-2001

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2000
    The fight against corruption is a central element in NORAD's assistance to developing countries and it is part of itsefforts to promote good governance in partner countries.
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    Poverty, inequality and aid: rhetoric and reality

    Reality of Aid, 2001
    How much of the $56 billion that OECD countries counted as Official Development Assistance (ODA) in 1999 was 'real aid'? The question of whether aid is really reaching poor people is fundamental.In this Report, the authors' aim is not to belittle the progress that has been achieved.

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