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    Halving poverty by doubling aid: how well founded is the optimism of the World Bank?

    Kiel Institute of World Economics/Institut für Weltwirtschaft, 2002
    This report constitutes a challenge to the effectiveness of the World Bank's strategy of concentrating, and thereby increasing, aid on countries with 'good' policies.The arguments used against the World Bank policy include:an analysis of the inconsistent relationship between economic growth and levels of aid delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and South Asia, raises considerabl
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    Cornering the market: the World Bank and trade capacity building

    Bretton Woods Project, 2002
    The World Bank is rapidly increasing the amount of resources it dedicates trade-related capacity building (TRCB) in response to both the backlash against it’s more traditional methods of influencing trade policy and as part of its re-positioning as a provider of development knowledge (the 'Knowledge Bank').
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    Responding to the financial crisis: better off without the IMF?: The case for Jamaica

    Finance and Development Research Programme, DFID, 2002
    Looks at the experience of Jamaica in its response to the adverse economic and social effects of the financial crisis in the 1990s.
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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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    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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    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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    Delivering on debt relief: from IMF gold to a new aid architecture

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2002
    Over the last several years,the United States and other major donor countries have supported a historic initiative to write down the official debts of a group of heavily indebted poor countries,or HIPCs.Donor countries had two primary goals in supporting debt relief: to reduce countries’ debt burdens to levels that would allow them to achieve sustainable growth; and to promote a new way of assi
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    New World Bank reports confirm that the HIPC initiative is failing

    Jubilee Research, 2002
    Analysis of two recent World Bank reports to assess how the HIPC initiative is progressing using the Bank's own criteria.
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    The unbreakable link: debt relief and the millennium development goals

    Jubilee Research, 2002
    This report tracks the progress of poor countries towards debt sustainability under the HIPC initiative; as well as likely progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).The article concludes that:the British Chancellor’s welcome proposal for an increase in OECD aid by $50bn a year will prove ineffectual in achieving the Millennium Development Goals in the HIPC countri

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