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  Poverty reduction outcomes in education and health: public expenditure and aid

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper looks at the role of public expenditure programmes in the health and education sectors and their impact on poverty. It argues for a closer donor involvement at the sector level.The evidence reviewed shows that progress towards the MDGs has slowed in some low income countries, notably in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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  Public attitudes to aid in Norway and Japan

  Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway, 2002

  Aims to assess and compare public attitudes to aid in Norway and Japan, set against the current international debate on the topic. It argues that public attitudes to aid in Norway and Japan should be thought of as a product of the very different triangular relationship between the state-civil society-business in the two countries.
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  From aid to partnership: a joint review of Norwegian - South African development cooperation 1995-2001

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2003

  The study provides an overview and an assessment of the Norwegian development assistance to South Africa since the first democratic elections in 1994.The report finds that nearly one billion Norwegian kroner were disbursed from Norway to South Africa during the first seven years.
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  Sustaining local level development: what worked and what did not: lessons from the phasing-out of Norwegian aid to the Hambantota Integrated Rural Development Programme (HIRDEP), Sri Lanka 1992-1999

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2003

  This paper examines what happens when funding for a project reaches its phase-out stage and the project must stand alone. It summarises the main experiences and lessons from twenty years of the Hambantota Integrated Rural Development Programme (HIRDEP), with a focus on the last phase from 1992 to 1999.Findings include:the phasing-out did not go as initially planned.
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  NORAD 2000: the country approach

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2000

  This paper describes how a Norwegian country strategy process dovetails with a partner country’s development strategy and what factors affect the formulation of a Norwegian development cooperation strategy.The following points can be regarded as a checklist of issues that ought to be discussed and clarified in the course of a country strategy process:level of ambition and terms of refer
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  Norwegian views on Poverty Reduction Strategy Processes in partner countries

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2001

  This document presents an overview of Norwegian views in order to promote national poverty reduction strategies (PRSs) in partner countries, and the relationship with Norwegian development co-operation at the country level.The paper asserts that national ownership of strategies and development efforts, and recipient responsibility are necessary conditions for achieving poverty reduction.
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  Human rights and democracy in Bangladesh: a plan for Norwegian support

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2001

  The main purpose of this report is to identify priority areas for future Norwegian support to human rights and democracy in Bangladesh.
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  Creation of value and mobilisation of national resources

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2000

  This paper aims to create a strategy for reducing dependence on development assistance for NORAD’s partner countries.
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  Far from home: do foreign investors import higher standards of governance in transition economies?

  Social Science Research Network, 2002

  This paper argues that while a number of recent studies have shown that corruption inhibits foreign direct investment (FDI), comparatively little attention has been given to the behavior of those who have invested in corrupt countries.
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  Poverty and health

  OECD Development Centre, 2003

  Improving health outcomes is a prerequisite necessary for developing countries to break out of the poverty cycle, but how can this be achieved? This DAC Reference Document, aimed at development agency staff, policy makers and planners in partner countries, jointly published by the OECD and WHO, sets out the essential components of a pro-poor health approach.

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