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    The World Bank and IMF initiate a new reform package

    Participation & Civic Engagement Group, World Bank, 2000
    The article critically examines the World Bank's and IMF's new approach to poverty alleviation and debt relief, as it is to be carried out via the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) and the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF).
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    SAPRIN challenges World Bank on failure of adjustment programs

    Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network, 2000
    This article emphasises the extent to which poverty, inequality and human suffering have increased in countries implementing the adjustment programs, that the international financial institutions (IFIs) had required as a condition for continued access to foreign capital.Conclusions:Designed to open and restructure economies on behalf of international investors, adjustment program
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    Harnessing global forces for poor people (Chapter 10, World Development Report)

    World Bank, 2000
    This chapter explores the kinds of global level actions, which can accelerate poverty reduction and help narrow the gaps, (in income, health, and other dimensions), between rich countries and poor.Key areas of international action for poverty reduction:Expanding market access in rich countries for developing countries' goods and servicesReducing the risk of economic crisesEncour
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    External shocks, financial crises, and poverty in developing countries

    World Bank, 2000
    This chapter ('External Shocks, Financial Crises and Poverty in Developing Countries'), of the World Bank report on 'Global Economic Prospects and Developing Countries':Reviews evidence about the impact on poverty of the external shocks and volatility to which developing countries are exposedPresents and assesses evidence of the impact of the 1997-98 financial crisis on poverty, in the
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    Alleviating poverty: role of good governance and constitutional reform

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2000
    This article explores the role that good governance and constitutional reform might play in poverty alleviation in India.Policy recommendations:There is a need for the state to move out of many areas, which it has previously occupied.
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    Rethinking small enterprise development: between poverty and growth

    Centre of African Studies, Edinburgh, 1998
    The current policy fascination with pro-poor growth has important implications for the small enterprise development field.
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    Building social capital: collective action, adoption of agricultural innovations, and poverty reduction in the Indian semi-arid tropics

    International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, 2000
    Social capital - ability and willingness to co-operate and work together for achieving common goals, and developing norms and networks for collective action - is crucial for successful uptake, diffusion, and impact of technological innovations.Case studies from the states of Maharashtra and Rajasthan, focusing on technological innovations in three crops – pigeonpea, groundnut, and pearl millet,
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    Public opinion and development aid: is there a link?

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 2000
    The current international debate on aid to Africa seems to assume that public opinion matters, i.e. it presupposes the existence of a ‘bottom-up’ relationship between public opinion and aid policy.This paper shows that it is in fact the other way round. It is only possible to understand the relationship between decision-making on aid and public opinion as a ‘top-down’ relationship.
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    The effect of IMF and World Bank programs on poverty

    Economic Growth Project, World Bank, 2000
    Paper suggests there is no evidence for a direct effect of structural adjustment on growth. The poor benefit less from output expansion in countries with many adjustment loans than in countries with few adjustment loans. By the same token, the poor suffer less from an output contraction in countries with many adjustment loans than in countries with few adjustment loans.Why would this be?
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    Economic policy, distribution and poverty: the nature of disagreements

    Department of Economics [Cornell University], 2001
    This article explores the disagreements which surround debates on poverty. It discusses the gulf between how officials and NGOs understand poverty.

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