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    Measuring governance, corruption, and state capture: how firms and bureaucrats shape the business environment in transition economies

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
    Corruption thrives where states are too weak to control their own bureaucrats, to protect property and contract rights, and to provide the institutions that underpin an effective rule of law.
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    NGOs and Peace Building in Complex Political Emergencies: Final Report to the Department for International Development

    Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2000
    Assesses the contribution of NGOs to peace-building and the ways in which NGOs, and the donors who support them, might strengthen that contribution. The overall study attempted to assess the impacts of NGOs on peace and conflict.
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    Engendering development

    Gendernet, World Bank, 2000
    Draft Policy Research Report examines the conceptual and empirical links between gender, public policy, and development outcomes and demonstrates the value of applying a gender perspective to the design of development policies.The evidence presented shows that societies that discriminate by gender pay a high price in terms of their ability to develop and to reduce poverty.
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    An end to forgotten emergencies?

    Oxfam, 2000
    As Western countries have got richer in the past ten years, the proportion of their wealth spent on humanitarian aid has gone down by 30%. The number of forgotten emergencies looks set to increase. The required response is not aid alone. Oxfam continues to press for international efforts to prevent conflict, tackle poverty, and promote respect for human rights. Yet humanitarian aid remains vital.
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    Land management programme in Tanzania

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2000
    Evaluation of LAMP in different contexts:broader change processesdevelopment thinkingcomparative analysis of different conditions of LAMP in the four districts it has been implemented inFindings include: recommending that the programme shifts focus from considering its core as natural resources management to one of support to the empowerment, mobilisation and capaci
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    Can institutions resolve ethnic conflict?

    Economic Growth Project, World Bank, 2000
    Paper finds that institutional factors interact with ethnic diversity, as they affect whether ethnic conflict is destructive or is contained by the rules of the game. Ethnic diversity has a more adverse effect on economic policy and growth when institutions are poor. To put it another way, poor institutions have an even more adverse effect on growth and policy when ethnic diversity is high.
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    Medium term Philippine development plan, 1999-2004

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1999
    Full text and summary of Philippines national development plan
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    Elections Today

    International Foundation for Electoral Systems, 1999
    Quarterly journal available in print (on subscription) with back issues online in PDF format.
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    When Accountability Fails: A Framework for Diagnosis and Action

    Institute on Governance, 2000
    Paper targeted at development assistance agencies involved in supporting the strengthening of public-sector accountability.
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    Why are there so many civil wars in Africa?: prevention of future conflicts and promotion of inter-group cooperation

    The Economics of Crime and Violence, World Bank, 2000
    Contrary to popular belief, Africa's civil wars are not due to its ethnic and religious diversity.

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