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  The Leadership Factor in African Policy Reform and Growth

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1999

  In 1997 the World Bank’s two vice-presidents for Sub-Saharan Africa attributed a significant improvement in Africa’s growth prospects to the advent of a new generation of leaders, replacing their “once largely statist and corrupt” predecessors. This paper begins by tracing the evolution of African chief executives over the past two decades.
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  How Did Highly Indebted Poor Countries Become Highly Indebted?: Reviewing Two Decades of Debt Relief

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Theoretical models predict that countries with unchanged long-run savings preferences will respond to debt relief by running up new debts or by running down assets. And there are some signs that incremental debt relief over the past two decades has fulfilled those predictions.
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  The performance of the Lesotho credit union movement: internal financing and external capital inflow

  Enterprise and Cooperative Development Department, Social Finance Unit, ILO, 1996

  Looks at the effects of using financial cooperatives in Lesotho as conduits for providing financial resources to the poor. The empirical study which forms the basis of this paper explores the factors that have determined the success of credit cooperatives in this country.
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  The Commission and non-governmental organisations: building a stronger partnership

  European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 1999

  Aims to: give an overview of the existing relationships between the Commission and NGOs including some current problemssuggest possible ways to develop these relationships by considering the measures needed to improve and strengthen the existing relationship between the Commission and the NGOs.Covers both inter-European isuues and the European development cooperation program
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  Aid effectiveness disputed

  Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1999

  There is a widespread perception among academic researchers and aid practitioners alike that empirical cross-country analysis fails to find any significant link between aid flows and growth, and that aid is successful only when associated with good policies in the recipient countries.
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  An analysis of the poverty orientation of current Danida policies

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999

  Paper discusses Danida's current policies and activities with respect to: the overall poverty reduction goal and understandingsthe attempt to ‘mainstream' the poverty reduction objective in guidelines and proceduresthe concrete programmes and projects undertaken in Uganda.
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  NGOs and Peace Building in Complex Political Emergencies: Final Report to the Department for International Development

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2000

  Assesses the contribution of NGOs to peace-building and the ways in which NGOs, and the donors who support them, might strengthen that contribution. The overall study attempted to assess the impacts of NGOs on peace and conflict.
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  Engendering development

  Gendernet, World Bank, 2000

  Draft Policy Research Report examines the conceptual and empirical links between gender, public policy, and development outcomes and demonstrates the value of applying a gender perspective to the design of development policies.The evidence presented shows that societies that discriminate by gender pay a high price in terms of their ability to develop and to reduce poverty.
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  An end to forgotten emergencies?

  Oxfam, 2000

  As Western countries have got richer in the past ten years, the proportion of their wealth spent on humanitarian aid has gone down by 30%. The number of forgotten emergencies looks set to increase. The required response is not aid alone. Oxfam continues to press for international efforts to prevent conflict, tackle poverty, and promote respect for human rights. Yet humanitarian aid remains vital.
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  Land management programme in Tanzania

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2000

  Evaluation of LAMP in different contexts:broader change processesdevelopment thinkingcomparative analysis of different conditions of LAMP in the four districts it has been implemented inFindings include: recommending that the programme shifts focus from considering its core as natural resources management to one of support to the empowerment, mobilisation and capaci

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