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    Donors and childhood poverty: making aid work

    Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2005
    This policy brief examines the impact that donors can have in effectively reducing childhood poverty.
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    Incentives for harmonisation in aid agencies

    Overseas Development Institute, 2005
    This study assesses the importance of incentive systems internal to aid agencies in their efforts to deliver on the commitments made in the Rome Declaration on Harmonisation.
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    The return to foreign aid

    Economics and Policy Research Unit, Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen, 2005
    The paper investigates the productivity of aid financed investments in the world’s poorest economies.
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    Sowing and reaping: institutional quality and project outcomes in developing countries

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2005
    Focusing on project-level evidence, this paper introduces microeconomic evidence on the factors that make aid-funded projects in developing countries successful.The main findings of the study are:existence of high-quality institutions in a recipient country raises the probability that aid will be used effectively there is also some evidence that geography matters, but location in Su
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    Millstone or milestone?: what rich countries must do in Paris to make aid work for poor people

    ActionAid International, 2005
    In the context of the Paris High-Level Forum (March 2005), this policy brief examines progress regarding the commitments to reform the aid system, and transform it into an effective instrument of change, which were made in the Rome Declaration (2003).The study points out that progress since Rome has been minimal, which raises fundamental questions about the commitment of rich countries to the 2
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    Working together: assessing Public–Private Partnerships in Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2005
    This report examines the potential of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Africa. In order to do so the report uses eight case studies of PPPs in toll roads, ports, prisons, telecommunications, eco-tourism and water and electricity provision.
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    Dirty aid, dirty water: the UK government's push to privatise water and sanitation in poor countries

    World Development Movement, 2005
    The paper draws attention to the fact that the UK Government is using taxpayers money in a push to privatise water and sanitation in developing countries.
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    The Washington Consensus is dead!: long live the meta-narrative!

    Overseas Development Institute, 2005
    This report critically examines the current discourse on international development policy.
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    Paris declaration on aid effectiveness

    Aid Harmonization & Alignment, 2005
    Adopted at the High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (March 2005) the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, has been prepared with broad participation from development practitioners, through a process coordinated by the High-Level Forum Steering Committee.
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    Better aid delivery or deconcentration of bureaucracy?: a snapshot of the EC's devolution process

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2004
    This paper explores the progress of the process of devolution in the European Union’s development and humanitarian assistance programme. In 1990 the European Commission decided that delegations and some beneficiary states should be granted more decision-making authority and this should be formalised in contracts.

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