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  Aid dependence and governance

  Expert Group on Development Issues, Department for International Development Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 2000

  This study analyses the political economy of aid dependence. It argues that large amounts of aid, delivered to countries with weak institutions, create some of the institutional problems that lead to ineffective governance.
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  Pakistan's debt position and the question of debt retirement

  Jubilee Research, 2001

  This article explores Pakistan's debt, its crippling debt repayments and the conditionalities enforced by IMF and World Bank on Pakistan. Some of these conditionalities include:bring about structural adjustments in the economy of Pakistanreduction of budget deficits at federal and provincial levelswide spread economic reforms in Pakistan.
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  Aid and reform in Africa: lessons from ten case studies

  World Bank, 2001

  This article explores comparatively, the effect and effectiveness of aid in different African countries (10 case studies).More specifically the article investigates the following questions:are there common characteristics of successful and failed reformers that enable us to understand better the political economy of reform?do donors tailor their assistance to different types of coun
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  Financing corruption and repression: the case of Kenya and the IFIs

  Jubilee Research, 2001

  This article attempts to show that in Kenya the IMF’s Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRSP) is less a strategy for poverty reduction and civil society participation; more a strategy for providing security and guarantees for foreign investorsThe article indicates that:far from challenging the rule of Daniel Arap Moi, international creditors, through the IMF and World Bank, have helped to pr
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  The Lesotho Highland Water Development Project: what went wrong? (or, rather: what went right? For whom?)

  International Rivers Network, 2000

  This article takes a critical look at the discussion regarding 19 corporate and individuals accused of bribing a top official in the Lesotho Highlands Water Project in order to gain project contracts.The aim of the article is to examine how the actions (and inactions) of the public institutions involved in this project may have aided and abetted bribe giving, regardless of whether or not any br
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  Tackling corruption with cooperation policy: Fourth report of the Select Committee on International Development

  International Development Committee, UK, 2001

  Report demonstrates the results of the Select Committee on International Development investigation that has revealed a lack of coherence, focus and determination across Whitehall in tackling corruption.Results and recommendations:corruption undermines development, hampers growth and has to be tackledSCID will continue to help developing countries build an environment that wil
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  Natural openness and good government

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2001

  This paper offers a new interpretation of the connection between openness and good governance.The article assumes that corruption and bad governance drive out international trade and investment more than domestic trade and investment, a "naturally more open economy" (as determined by its size and geography) would devote more resources to building good institutions and would display lower corru
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  Sustaining high rates of economic growth in India

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2001

  This article looks at means of strengthening India's growth strategy.The article suggests:a strategy focussing on export-led growth, which among other things requires greater emphasis on special economic zones, and openness of the economy, liberalization in India's labor laws, de-reservation of products for the small scale industry and other measures for the deregulation of India's priv
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  Telecenters for socioeconomic and rural development in Latin America and the Caribbean

  2001

  Examines some of the main telecentre experiments in Latin America (especially Central America and the Caribbean). Survey results provide a characterisation of users; help identify the main uses of cabinas and their needs; and perceived notions as to the quality of service received.
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  Towards a relationship of significance: lessons from a decade of collaboration between government and NGOs in Rajasthan, India.

  Agricultural Research and Extension Network, 1999

  This paper explores how government and NGOs converge on a number of development objectives that have become social and political imperatives, divide roles along expected lines and prevailing notions of each other’s capacities, but still end up with problems in certain areas.

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