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  Aid, Policies, and Growth

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Aid has a positive impact on growth in developing countries with good fiscal, monetary, and trade policies. Aid appears not to affect policies systematically either for good or for ill. Any tendency for aid to reward good policies has been overwhelmed by donors' pursuit of their own strategic interests.
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  Debt Relief for Low-Income Countries and the HIPC Initiative

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997

  Since the onset of the debt crisis in the early 1980s, many heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs), continue to have difficulty in paying their external debt-service obligations, largely because of exogenous factors, imprudent debt-management policies, and the lack of sustained adjustment or implementation of structural reforms.
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  Capacity Development: How can Donors do it Better?

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999
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  Rethinking Development Assistance: the implications of social citizenship in a global economy

  Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1999

  The emerging model for development assistance in the coming decades is based on supporting the full integration of developing countries into the global economy by correcting for failures in product and factor capital markets. 'Aid' as such would be confined to humanitarian emergencies and activities with large international externalities.
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  Personal and Institutional Factors in Capacity Building and Institutional Development

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1997

  The central focus of this paper is an analysis of the concepts of capacity and capacity building and their role in public service management. The civil service plays a central role not only in economic development, but also in the development process as a whole. The focus therefore will be on what constitutes capacity? How is capacity developed or built?
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  The Role of the German "Stiftungen" in the Process of democratisation

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999

  This paper gives an overview of the system of the five German "Stiftungen", and describes in general terms their aims, objectives and activities in support of transitional democratic processes in general, and in Sub-Saharan Africa in particular.
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  International Experience with Institutional Development and administrative Reform: Some Pointers for Success

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999

  Whatever their stage of development, all countries need to enhance institutional capacity so that they can keep up with advances in this age where the rate of change is greater than at any previous time in history. All lay stress on the central importance of management capacity within the public service.
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  The Management of British Bilateral Aid and its Effectiveness

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999

  This paper looks at how the Overseas Development Administration (ODA) manages the British bilateral aid programme. It initially examines its strategic approach to aid allocation and use. A major interest is how its aid objectives are translated into spending plans and activities through country programming and organisation and staffing of country delivery of aid.
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  Towards Coherence?: Development Cooperation Policy and the Development of Policy Cooperation

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1997

  In light of conflicting sectoral, institutional and national pressures, is the European Union capable of assuring policy coherence, particularly in the field of development cooperation? For the purposes of this paper, we understand coherence to refer to the degree of consistency between policies, in particular those dealing with European external relations.
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  Guidelines for Aid Agencies on Pest and Pesticide Management

  Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1999

  Over the last decades, the use of pesticides in developing countries has rapidly increased, while the development and introduction of instruments to control their use and distribution has lagged behind. In many countries this has led to wide-spread occurrence of undesirable practices affecting public health and the environment.

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