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  Research for poverty reduction: DFID Research Policy Paper

  Department for International Development, UK, 2003

  This report acknowledges the high quality of much current practice and proposes to build on the best of what is currently done.
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  Human Development Report 2000: human rights and human development

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2000

  Report looks at human rights as an intrinsic part of development and at development as a means to realizing human rights. It shows how human rights bring principles of accountability and social justice to the process of human development. Achieving rights for all people in all countries will require action and commitment from the major players in society.
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  Realising human rights for poor people

  Department for International Development, UK, 2000

  This paper presents DFID's strategy for the achievement of human rights and fundamental freedoms of poor people. The central message is that the International Development Targets can only be achieved through the engagement of poor people in the development processes which affect their lives.
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  The corruption fighters' tool kit: civil society experiences and emerging strategies

  U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2001

  The Corruption Fighter's Tool Kit was created to share the experiences of Transparency International's country chapter programmes, best practices, and lessons learned. The aim is to foster discussion, spark ideas, and inspire those fighting corruption around the world. The tool kit presents cases of anti-corruption activities to be replicated or adapted by civil society groups in other countries.
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  Anti-Corruption strategy for DfID

  U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2002

  This is a DfID policy paper investigating the causes and effects of corruption on the development process, and proposing a holistic, global strategy for combating corruption involving action on a number of areas:support poorer states committed to effective anti-corruption strategies drive out bribery from international trade and business deter money laundering of funds corruptly a
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  Key features of IMF poverty reduction and growth facility (PRGF) supported programs

  International Monetary Fund, 2000

  This note discusses how features of the PRGF - supported programs may be incorporated into program design, at the early stages of implementing the PRSP approach. It outlines the areas of expected change and aims to use this list to give clarity to expectations, guide the internal work of mission teams and provide a benchmark to review progress within the IMF.
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  Poverty – wellbeing: an orientation, learning and working tool for fighting poverty

  Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2000

  The purpose of this orientation, learning and working tool is to provide an additional bridge between the problems of poverty and the SDC’s PEMT instruments.
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  Integrating land issues and land policy with poverty reduction and rural development in Southern Africa

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002

  This paper is a synthesis of land issues and land policy constraints in Southern Africa prepared for the World Bank Regional Workshop on Land Issues in Africa and the Middle East held in Kampala, Uganda, in May 2002.
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  Qual-Quant: qualititative and quantitative poverty appraisal: complementarities, tensions and the way forward

  Poverty, inequality and development research at Cornell University, 2001

  Proceedings of a workshop comparing the qualitative and the quantitative traditions in poverty analysis. From this workshop, at least five dimensions of the traditional approaches of appraisal were identified as being: type of information on population: non-numerical to numerical. type of population coverage: specific to general.
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  Responding to the financial crisis: better off without the IMF?: The case for Jamaica

  Finance and Development Research Programme, DFID, 2002

  Looks at the experience of Jamaica in its response to the adverse economic and social effects of the financial crisis in the 1990s.

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