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    Poverty, growth and inequity in Nigeria: a case study

    African Economic Research Consortium, 2000
    This article explores a study into poverty in Nigeria.Resulting poverty profile:male-headed households contribute over 80% to the three measures of poverty and female-headed households contribute 5-16% (keeping in mind the small size of the female sample noted above) The contribution to poverty tends to be higher in the north than in the south; while the contribution to pove
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    PRS: poverty reduction or public relations strategies?

    Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2000
    As a response to the criticisms from campaigning groups and NGOs throughout the world, the Boards of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund commissioned the 1999 Fundamental Review of the HIPC Initiative.
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    Conflict prevention: commission initiative to improve EU’s civilian intervention capacities

    European Union, 2001
    The Commission today adopted a Communication on Conflict Prevention. This document contains a comprehensive review of all the recent initiatives undertaken by the Community to promote peace and stability. The communication proposes a consolidated and realistic approach of the EU to conflict prevention.
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    Polices to roll-back the state and privatise? [PRSPs]

    World Development Movement, 2001
    Short paper reviewing experience with PRSPs, based on an examination of four PRSPs and twelve interim documents, along with comments made by civil society groups from developing countries.Findings include: across highly indebted poor countries, civil society groups are unsatisfied with the extent of public involvement in drawing up the strategy papers.
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    The ABC of the PRSP

    Bretton Woods Project, 2000
    This briefing paper tries to answer the following questions:What is the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP)?How does the PRSP relate to WB and IMF lending?What is the connection between the PRSP and the HIPC Debt Initiative?What does ownership mean?Is there a tension between qualifying for debt relief and allowing time to develop a good PRSP?What will an interim PRS
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    The sustainability enigma: aid dependency and the phasing out of projects: the case of Swedish aid

    Expert Group on Development Issues, Department for International Development Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 1999
    Using interviews and evaluation materials from twelve Swedish funded projects in Tanzania as cases, this study assesses the relationship between aid dependence and project phase out performance.Findings: project phasing out is complicated by the lack of financial sustainability of the supported institutions.
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    Aid dependence and governance

    Expert Group on Development Issues, Department for International Development Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 2000
    This study analyses the political economy of aid dependence. It argues that large amounts of aid, delivered to countries with weak institutions, create some of the institutional problems that lead to ineffective governance.
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    Aid and reform in Africa: lessons from ten case studies

    World Bank, 2001
    This article explores comparatively, the effect and effectiveness of aid in different African countries (10 case studies).More specifically the article investigates the following questions:are there common characteristics of successful and failed reformers that enable us to understand better the political economy of reform?do donors tailor their assistance to different types of coun
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    What good can debt relief and PRSP do?: the case of Zambia

    Bread for the World, 2001
    This web resource looks into the Zambia's position of debt and the influence PRSPs and associated debt relief is having on Zambia.
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    African poverty at the millennium: causes, complexities, and challenges

    Documents and Reports, 2001
    Paper addresses the following questions:Who are the poor?What are the causes of poverty?Why have both states and markets failed the poor?Why do the poor have inadequate capital?How can we sustain improvements in social indicators?How are household and population dynamics changing?What are the roles for donors and governments in poverty reduction?Conclusio

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