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  Economic growth and poverty reduction: measurement and policy issues

  OECD Development Centre, 2005

  The aim of this Working Paper is to broaden the debate on pro-poor growth.
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  Perpetuating poverty in sub-Saharan Africa: how African political elites undermine entrepreneurship and economic development

  International Policy Network, 2005

  This paper argues that Africa's political elites have driven their countries' economies backwards, by misusing the economic surplus generated by the continent over the past 40 years.
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  World Development Report 2006: equity and development

  World Development Report, World Bank, 2005

  Greater equity should be an integral part of poverty reduction efforts, according to the World Bank's annual Development Report.
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  Global partnership for development: Thailand's contribution to millennium development goal 8

  United Nations Development Programme, 2005

  Thailand has become an important emerging donor, trading partner, and provider of foreign direct investment for the benefit its poorer neighbours and those beyond its borders.
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  An analysis of the impact of HIPC initiative on poverty alleviation in developing countries: evidence from Cameroon

  Global Development Network, 2004

  The purpose of this paper is to simulate the distribution and poverty impacts of key macroeconomic policies that are currently being implemented within Cameroon’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP).
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  Changing the political economy of poverty and ecological disruption

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2005

  This publication presents an intervention approach that is designed to help community organisations, civil society groups, government offices and development agencies in their efforts to change the underlying causes of poverty and ecological disruption.
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  Positioning microfinance institutions for the capital markets

  Social Enterprise Associates, 2005

  This paper explores key elements of the microfinance industry as they relate to increased access to capital markets.
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  Does general budget support work?: evidence from Tanzania

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  Direct financial support to a country’s budget is a long-established form of aid – as old as development assistance itself. But the last five years have witnessed an important development – the rapid growth of budget-support operations informed by a new and distinctive aid philosophy emphasising flexible funding for country led poverty reduction efforts.
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  Connecting the poor to economic growth: eight key questions

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2005

  This brief presents a framework for connecting growth to poverty reduction and asks eight key questions that development professionals can use to guide their evaluations of proposals and projects.
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  Block by block: how one of the world’s largest companies builds loyalty among Mexico’s poor

  Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2005

  This article explores how Cemex, the world’s second-largest cement maker and one of Mexico’s largest companies, has engaged in a programme providing Mexico’s poor with relatively easy access to building material.

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