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  Global poverty report 2000

  African Development Bank, 2000

  This report was prepared for the G8 Kyushu-Okinawa Summit Meeting 2000 by a consortium of multilateral finance organizations including African Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Inter-American Development Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank.The report focuses on three main topics:global poverty conditions and trendsregional poverty tr
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  Economic, social and cultural rights: human rights and extreme poverty

  United Nations [UN] High Commission for Refugees, 2000

  This report evaluates the relationship between the promotion and protection of human rights and the eradication of extreme poverty, identifying national and international good practices, and examines strategies to overcome extreme poverty and their social impact.Dialogue with the IMF is a central theme.
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  Can social safety nets contribute to poverty reduction in Africa?

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2001

  This study examined the design and impacts of cash transfer programmes in three southern Africa countries. Design choices such as targeting, transfer levels and transfer mode (cash or food) require sensitivity by policy-makers and participation by intended beneficiaries.
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  The ABC of the PRSP

  Bretton Woods Project, 2000

  This briefing paper tries to answer the following questions:What is the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP)?How does the PRSP relate to WB and IMF lending?What is the connection between the PRSP and the HIPC Debt Initiative?What does ownership mean?Is there a tension between qualifying for debt relief and allowing time to develop a good PRSP?What will an interim PRS
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  Lifting the veil on institutional violence: understanding Israel's contribution to Palestinian underdevelopment

  Christian Aid, 2001

  The article points out that the most serious issue for attention is the effect of Israeli government policies which contribute to the long term underdevelopment of the economy.The article is particularly critical of:the illegal process of Israeli expanding settlement in the West Bank and Gazathe strategic control the Israelis leverage over the Palestinian water resources.
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  The sustainability enigma: aid dependency and the phasing out of projects: the case of Swedish aid

  Expert Group on Development Issues, Department for International Development Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 1999

  Using interviews and evaluation materials from twelve Swedish funded projects in Tanzania as cases, this study assesses the relationship between aid dependence and project phase out performance.Findings: project phasing out is complicated by the lack of financial sustainability of the supported institutions.
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  Aid dependence and governance

  Expert Group on Development Issues, Department for International Development Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 2000

  This study analyses the political economy of aid dependence. It argues that large amounts of aid, delivered to countries with weak institutions, create some of the institutional problems that lead to ineffective governance.
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  Access to credit and its impact on welfare in Malawi

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001

  This report analyzes the determinants of access to credit in Malawi and its impact on farm and nonfarm income and on household food security and seeks to quantify the relationship between the demand for formal loans and that for informal loans.Key obsevervations of this study include:the contribution of rural microfinance in-stitutions to the income of smallholders can be limited or out
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  Redistribution matters: growth for poverty reduction

  International Labour Organization, 2001

  This article discusses whether poverty reduction in developing countriescan best be achieved through faster economic growth and reduction through redistribution, though the two may be complementary.
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  Aid and reform in Africa: lessons from ten case studies

  World Bank, 2001

  This article explores comparatively, the effect and effectiveness of aid in different African countries (10 case studies).More specifically the article investigates the following questions:are there common characteristics of successful and failed reformers that enable us to understand better the political economy of reform?do donors tailor their assistance to different types of coun

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