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New development tools or empty acronyms?: the reality behind the Comprehensive Development Framework and Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers
Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2000Within the last couple of years there has been a re-examination of how aid is delivered in the light of concerns about its effectiveness particularly for reducing poverty.DocumentPRSP: the story so far….
European Network on Debt and Development, 2000Eurodad has provided interconnected resources, concerning:The HIPC initiativeThe PRSP story so farDebt relief and poverty reductionAlthough these are discrete documents, they complement each other thematically:PRSPThe first document entitled 'PRSP - The story so far' explores the new World Bank and IMF instrument called the Poverty Reduction Strategy PapDocumentBuilding poverty reduction strategies
World Bank, 2001This resource hosts a series of overviews, key documents, sourcebooks and guide to learning events concerning the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRSs).There are six core principles underlying the development and implementation of poverty reduction strategies.DocumentMultilateral trade liberalization and poverty reduction
Federal Agricultural Research Centre, Germany, 2000This study assesses the likely impacts of trade liberalisation on the incidence of poverty. The study attempts to maintain a multi-country focus on liberalisation by comparing experience in 5 countries (Thailand, Zambia, India )Approach:The authors simulate a global model to determine regional price changes owing to a policy experiment.DocumentDifferential impacts of trade liberalization on Indonesia’s poor and non-poor
World Bank, 2000Looks at potential impacts on the poor and non-poor in Indonesia of the commodity price changes which may be caused by proposed trade liberalizations.A general equilibrium global trade model (as used by the Global Trade Analysis Project) is used to simulate price changes of key commodities in Indonesia as a result of two hypothesized trade liberalizations:a unilateral reduction in IndonDocumentImpacts of the Indonesian economic crisis: price changes and the poor
National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1999Did the recent financial crisis in Indonesia result in dramatic price increases? In the Indonesian case the very poor appear the most vulnerable.DocumentThe vicious circle: AIDS and third world debt
World Development Movement, 2001This article argues that AIDS and debt must be tackled simultaneously if there is to be any chance of improvement for developing countries. The article also suggests that despite world leaders' promises to end the debt crisis, developing countries are still paying out millions of pounds each year to service debts, while the health of their populations suffers.DocumentICTs and poverty
World Bank, 2000This article argues that the lack of access to information and communications technologies (ICTs) is an element of poverty in the way that insufficient nutrition or inadequate shelter are.DocumentConflict prevention: commission initiative to improve EU’s civilian intervention capacities
European Union, 2001The Commission today adopted a Communication on Conflict Prevention. This document contains a comprehensive review of all the recent initiatives undertaken by the Community to promote peace and stability. The communication proposes a consolidated and realistic approach of the EU to conflict prevention.