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  Responses to the challenges of globalisation: a study on the international monetary and financial system and on financing for development

  European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 2002

  Discusses the reform of the international monetary and financial architecture as a response to global financial crises and the issue of financing and promoting development as a means to reduce global inequality.
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  Good governance and aid effectiveness: the World Bank and conditionality

  Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, USA, 2001

  This article assesses the Bank's approach for promoting good governance in developing countries. It argues that the Bank's use of traditional approaches to strengthen good governance in developing countries is misguided.The paper outlines the concept of good governance as defined by the World Bank and others.
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  Promoting democratic governance and preventing the recurrence of conflict: the role of the United Nations Development Programme inpost conflict peace-building

  Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, USA, 2001

  This paper assesses the scope and significance of the new development agenda endorsed by UNDP and attempts to gauge the promises and dilemmas of its efforts to consolidate peace by promoting democracy and strengthening good governance, focusing on the experiences of Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala.The paper first scrutinises the emergence of democracy and good governance in the agenda of t
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  International co-operation for democracy and good governance: moving toward a second generation?

  Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, USA, 2001

  This paper explores international assistance to democracy and argues that, a decade on since its emergence, a second generation democracy assistance is needed.
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  The policy roots of economic crisis and poverty: a multi-country participatory assessment of structural adjustment

  Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network, 2001

  The report documents a systematic weakening of the productive capacity of the countries implementing Bank policies and the inability of these countries to generate productive employment at a living wage.
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  Growing dangers of service apartheid: how the World Bank Group’s Private Sector Development (PSD) Strategy threatens infrastructure and basic service provision

  Globalization Challenge Initiative, 2001

  This article discusses the World Bank's Private Sector Development Strategy (PSD).The article finds that:the main thrust of the PSD Strategy is not new.
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  Humanitarian and human rights emergencies

  Brookings Institution, 2001

  As the world's only super-power and a major humanitarian aid donor, the United States has a critical role in shaping the response to these emergencies.This policy briefing states that whether or not the Bush administration decides to maintain American leadership in this area, it will have to develop firm guidelines for humanitarian action in the cases it chooses to address.
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  Greening the Bretton Woods institutions

  Foreign Policy in Focus, 2001

  This looks at how the U.S. should adopt new foreign policy to influence World Bank and IMF strategic activities in a positive manner.This article finds that:the IMF and World Bank have failed to integrate environmental sustainability into their lending, concentrating instead on export-led exploitation of natural resources.
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  The IMF and good governance

  Foreign Policy in Focus, 2001

  This article finds that:the IMF was created to solve short-term, external imbalances in national economies but has moved far beyond its original mandatethe IMF makes decisions with major implications for poor countries yet lacks the expertise to provide far-reaching policy prescriptions.
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  Afghanistan and Central Asia: priorities for reconstruction and development

  International Crisis Group, 2001

  This article discusses the contemporary conflict in Afghanistan, and means of ensuring stability and security.The article recommends that:donors should adopt a regional approach, tackling development, drugs and security problems not just in Afghanistan but in the neighbouring countries as welldonors should establish a coordinated set of trust funds that will allow rapid disbursemen

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