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  How Did Highly Indebted Poor Countries Become Highly Indebted?: Reviewing Two Decades of Debt Relief

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Theoretical models predict that countries with unchanged long-run savings preferences will respond to debt relief by running up new debts or by running down assets. And there are some signs that incremental debt relief over the past two decades has fulfilled those predictions.
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  Country Risks and the Investment Activities of U.S. Multinationals in Developing Countries

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1999

  Examines the uneven distribution of foreign direct investment (FDI) over developing countries.
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  The performance of the Lesotho credit union movement: internal financing and external capital inflow

  Enterprise and Cooperative Development Department, Social Finance Unit, ILO, 1996

  Looks at the effects of using financial cooperatives in Lesotho as conduits for providing financial resources to the poor. The empirical study which forms the basis of this paper explores the factors that have determined the success of credit cooperatives in this country.
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  Impact of the Asia crisis on children: Issues for social safety nets

  Australian Agency for International Development, 1999

  Report is based on a survey carried out in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand on the impact of the Asia crisis on children.
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  The Commission and non-governmental organisations: building a stronger partnership

  European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 1999

  Aims to: give an overview of the existing relationships between the Commission and NGOs including some current problemssuggest possible ways to develop these relationships by considering the measures needed to improve and strengthen the existing relationship between the Commission and the NGOs.Covers both inter-European isuues and the European development cooperation program
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  Aid effectiveness disputed

  Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1999

  There is a widespread perception among academic researchers and aid practitioners alike that empirical cross-country analysis fails to find any significant link between aid flows and growth, and that aid is successful only when associated with good policies in the recipient countries.
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  An analysis of the poverty orientation of current Danida policies

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999

  Paper discusses Danida's current policies and activities with respect to: the overall poverty reduction goal and understandingsthe attempt to ‘mainstream' the poverty reduction objective in guidelines and proceduresthe concrete programmes and projects undertaken in Uganda.
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  A guide to budget work: a systematic overview of the different aspects of effective budget analysis

  International Budget Partnership, 1999

  Introduction to the activities and approach an organization might want to undertake in its first few years of budget work. The purpose is to present a systematic overview of the different aspects of effective budget analysis, with an emphasis on initial steps.
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  From Relief and Development to Assisted Self-Reliance: Nongovernmental Organizations in Bangladesh

  Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, 1999

  By definition, virtually all development interventions contain a welfare element. This welfare element involves the subsidized provision to a marginalized group or community by an external agency, physical, human, and/or social capital. Where marginalization is compounded by some type of natural disaster or civil conflict, the welfare element is justifiably high.
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  New tools and new tests in comparative political economy: the database of political institutions

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  The DPI contains 113 variables for 177 countries 1975-95. The variables provide details about elections, electoral rules, type of political system, party composition of the opposition and government coalitions, and the extent of military influence on government.

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