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    How, when and why does poverty get budget priority: poverty reduction strategy and public expenditure in Malawi

    Overseas Development Institute, 2002
    This paper assesses Malawi’s experience in introducing propoor public expenditure policies from the 90s to 2001. Performance is assessed in terms of the consistency of fiscal policy and resource allocations with the Government’s poverty reduction goals.
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    Livelihoods and rural poverty reduction in Malawi

    Overseas Development Group, East Anglia University (UEA) School of Development Studies, 2002
    This paper takes a critical view of the PRSP and decentralisation processes in Malawi based on investigations of rural livelihoods in eight villages in the Dedza and Zomba districts. The paper finds that rural Malawians confront multiple severe constraints including:
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    User’s guide to poverty and social impact analysis of policy reform

    PovertyNet, World Bank, 2002
    Draft guide to in undertaking poverty and social impact analysis (PSIA) of policy reforms.
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    African Scholars' Forum for Envisioning Africa: focus on NEPAD

    WSSD Web Site of the Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2002
    Collection of papers from a forum organised by the Heinrich Boell Foundation, together with the Mazingira Institute and the African academy of Sciences.
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    Finance development: invest in children

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2002
    This UNICEF report looks at the financial investments needed to free children from poverty and meet targets set under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The report focuses on the investments needed by governments and international organisations in health, education, and water and sanitation to secure the well-being of children.
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    New strategies, old loan conditions: the case of Uganda

    Bretton Woods Project, 2002
    Based on secondary materials and interviews with leading officials within the Government of Uganda, bi-lateral and multi-lateral institutions and civil society organizations in Uganda and Washington DC over 2001, this study presents evidence that crucial policy prescriptions within the PRSC and PRGF may impair Uganda’s ability to effectively realize its antipoverty and growth goals.Uganda's Pov
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    Governance & poverty: an alternative paradigm

    GDNet document store, 2000
    In much the same way that non-formal sector "parallel economies" have been addressed since the 1980's, the "new paradigm" presented in this paper proposes the integration of "parallel governance" into our development models.
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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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    NORAD’s good governance and anti-corruption plan 2000-2001

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2000
    The fight against corruption is a central element in NORAD's assistance to developing countries and it is part of itsefforts to promote good governance in partner countries.
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    World Development Report 2002

    World Bank, 2001
    This World Development Report, from the World Bank, argues that effective institutions are critical to sustained and successful market reforms. It notes that market reforms have had a mixed record at prompting growth, increasing productivity and alleviating poverty in developing countries across the world. The report, therefore, asks two key questions.

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