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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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  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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  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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  Capacity building in Africa: an OED evaluation of World Bank support

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 2005

  This evaluation assesses World Bank support for public sector capacity building in Africa over the past 10 years.
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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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  Dogmatic development: privatisation and conditionalities in six countries

  War on Want, 2004

  The report examines how conditionalities and pressures from aid agencies and development banks force developing countries to adopt privatisation policies in public services.
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  Will the Millennium Challenge Account be different?

  Washington Quarterly, 2003

  This paper examines the implications of the Bush administration's Millennium Challenge Account (MCA), and the possible ramifications for the allocation and delivery of U.S. foreign assistance.
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  PRSP annual progress reports and joint staff assessments: a review of progress

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This paper reflects on the poverty reduction strategy (PRS) four years after its inception. Forty one countries are implementing full PRSPs, and eleven more are using an interim PRS.
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  Turning off the taps: donor conditionality and water privatisation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

  ActionAid International, 2004

  This paper examines the long-standing trend of international aid donors to demand that recipient countries privatise basic services and liberalise economies. These demands have been enforced through donor conditionality.

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