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    The status of sector wide approaches: a framework paper

    Overseas Development Institute, 2000
    Paper is an outcome of the informal Like-Minded Donor Working Group on the Implementation of Sector Wide Approaches (SWA).
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    Network 2002 Newsletter

    Earth Summit 2002, 1999
    Monthly newsletter being produced in the lead up to the Earth Summit 2002. Current issue in text format, back issues in PDF format.
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    Basic service for all?: public spending and the social dimensions of poverty

    UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2000
    The report draws on case studies from over 30 developing countries to highlight the human cost of this shortfall in terms of lives lost, children out of school, the millions of children under-nourished and the billions without safe water and sanitation.The report outlines a Ten Point Agenda for Action to bridge the US$80 billion gap, including a call for an international agreement that no more
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    Taxation, aid and democracy: an agenda for research in African countries

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 2000
    Taxation, aid and democracy are closely related in poor aid-dependent African countries.
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    The effectiveness of EC development assistance

    International Development Committee, UK, 2000
    Review by UK Government Committee of the development policies of the European Community.
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    Policies and strategies for poverty reduction in Norwegian development aid: a review

    Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway, 1999
    Paper provides an overview of Norwegian policiesand strategies for poverty reduction.
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    Will growth halve global poverty by 2015?

    Overseas Development Institute, 2000
    Examines progress towards meeting the international development targets set by OECD/DAC in 1996: to halve the proportion of people living in extreme poverty by 2015.The authors forecast that: In developing countries as a whole, extreme poverty can be more than halved by 2015 provided that currently forecast GNP growth rates (higher than past growth rates) are realised.
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    Aid dependence and the quality of governance: a cross-country empirical analysis

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
    Good governance (in the form of institutions that establish predictable, impartial, and consistently enforced rules for investors) is crucial for the sustained and rapid growth of per capita incomes in poor countries.
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    African Journals Online (AJOL)

    International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, 1999
    The International Network for Scientific Publications (INASP) launched AJOL in 1998 with only 14 journals. By January 2004 it had over 175 African journals covering most subject areas. Journals included in AJOL are scholarly in content with peer reviewed articles, and publish a mixture of pure and applied research as well as review papers.
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    How does public spending affect growth and poverty? The experience of China

    Global Development Network, 2000
    This paper uses province-level data for 1978-1997, to develop a simultaneous equation model to estimate the direct and indirect effects of different types of government expenditure on rural poverty and productivity growth in rural China.

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