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  Power to consumers?: a bottom-up approach to aid reform

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This short opinion piece argues that unless developing countries themselves are offered genuine choice about which aid agencies they want to work with, the effectiveness of aid in reducing poverty will decline, and the rhetoric about recipient country ownership will remain empty.The lack of either a clear regulatory environment, or a market mechanism to force a more rational 'division of labour
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  Scaling up versus absorptive capacity: challenges opportunities for reaching the MDGs in Africa

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This briefing paper argues that the ‘scaling up’ of aid flows that could materialise in 2005 islikely to run up against ‘absorptive capacity’ constraints, unless these are taken into account from the beginning, and adequately addressed in the design and implementation of improved aid delivery mechanisms. It asks:can poor countries effectively absorb a significant increase in aid flows?
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  Real aid: an agenda for making aid work

  ActionAid International, 2005

  This report demonstrates the extent to which the official aid figures exaggerate rich countries’ generosity. It distinguishes real aid from “phantom aid”, which is not targeted for poverty reduction, double counted as debt relief , tied to goods and services from the donor country, etc.
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  Rehabilitating health services in Cambodia: the challenge of coordination in chronic political emergencies

  Health Policy and Planning, 1999

  This paper, published in Health Policy and Planning, analyses the constraints to the coordination of health sector aid in countries emerging from periods of violent political conflict, drawing on a case study from Cambodia. Because the legitimacy of state institutions was contested during the transition to peace in the 1990s, donors tended to avoid engaging with them.
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  Poor performers: basic approaches for supporting development in difficult partnerships

  Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2001

  This paper, published by the OECD Development Assistance Committee, considers what donor agencies can do when a standard partnership model, and in particular the role played by the recipient country government, does not seem likely to lead to effective use of aid.
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  DFID Social Exclusion Review

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This report reviews and synthesises experiences of working with social exclusion both within DFID and among other agencies. It examines how DFID staff members understand social exclusion and points to the risks, challenges and opportunities they associate with using the term social exclusion. It also reviews work that has been undertaken across DFID's regional programmes and at a policy level.
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  World Bank 2004 Annual Review of Development Effectiveness (ARDE)

  World Bank, 2005

  This report looks at the recent growth and poverty reduction experience of client countries. It assesses the extent to which Bank interventions have contributed to growth and poverty reduction and the effectiveness of different types of interventions.
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  Official development assistance increases further - but 2006 targets still a challenge

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2005

  This document presents an overview of the volume of development aid from OECD countries.Official Development Assistance (ODA) to developing countries increased to USD 78.6 billion in 2004, its highest level ever. Taking into account inflation and the fall in the U.S.
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  The damage done: aid, death and dogma

  Christian Aid, 2005

  This briefing paper challenges the entrenched assumption that developing countries can only work their way out of poverty through radical economic liberalisation, calling for an end to aid conditional on such policies.
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  Civil society, democratisation and foreign aid in Africa

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This paper critically examines the current donor practice of funding civil society organisations as a way to influence govenment policy and to create more citizen involvement in public affairs.

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