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  Human Development Report 2005: international cooperation at a crossroads - aid, trade and security in an unequal world

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2005

  Will the MDG targets be met if current development trends continue? Not according to the 2005 Human Development Report (HDR), which cites inequality as the issue of prime concern in the fight against poverty. The report argues that economic development alone will fail to produce sustained poverty reduction.
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  Aid instruments in fragile states

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This paper by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) describes the limitations of current approaches to aid instruments and discusses the emerging understanding of their use within fragile states.
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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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  Development effectiveness in fragile states: spillovers and turnarounds

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2004

  This papers examines aid effectiveness in fragile states with particularly weak policies and institutions.
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  Fragile states: defining difficult environments for poverty reduction

  Department for International Development, UK, 2004

  This paper, published by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), presents a working definition of difficult environments that is both linked to the wider debate about fragile states but at the same time focuses the challenge on donor-recipient relationships for poverty reduction.
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  From aid effectiveness to development effectiveness: strategy and policy coherence in fragile states

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  The impact of non-aid policies on development outcomes is gaining ever-higher priority, with an emphasis on securing coherence across government departments. Policy coherence is particularly important in relation to fragile states.
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  Why we need to work more effectively in fragile states

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This paper lays out DfID’s commitment to working more effectively in fragile states.
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  Harmonisation and alignment in fragile states

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  The paper focuses on donor behaviour and aid effectiveness as articulated particularly in the Rome agenda on harmonisation and alignment, in the context of fragile states.
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  Aid allocation and fragile states

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper summarises research on aid allocation and effectiveness, highlighting the current findings of OECD DAC research on aid allocation to fragile states.Fragile states as a group have not only been under-aided but aid flows have also been twice as volatile as those to other low income countries, even when changes such as the onset or cessation of conflict and large performance changes are
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  Gender mainstreaming in disaster reduction

  United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, 2002

  This paper examines the gender dynamics of disasters, and advocates gender sensitive planning and programming to prevent and respond to disasters. The authors propose that a balanced and equal participation of both women and men in formulating and implementing policies and programmes will facilitating utilising the maximum talent available.

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