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  Promises to the Poor: the Record of European Development Agencies

  Overseas Development Institute, 1998

  All the European development cooperation agencies subscribe to the international goal of reducing poverty by one half by 2015 but they have different strategies for achieving it.
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  The UK White Paper on International Development - and Beyond

  Overseas Development Institute, 1998

  In November 1997, the British Government published its long-awaited White Paper on international development, the first comprehensive statement on British aid for 22 years. It has been widely welcomed as a significant shift in the orientation of British development policy and as a marker for other donors.
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  How Bad Governance Impedes Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh

  OECD Development Centre, 1998

  In 1995/96, 47.5 per cent of the population of Bangladesh were still living below the poverty line. While this represents a decline compared to 62.6 per cent in 1983/84, the absolute number of poor people has in fact increased over the same period.
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  The Perestroika of Aid?: New Perspectives on conditionality

  Christian Aid, 1999

  Reviews policy arguements on conditionality and recommends and NGO standpoint. Discussed in the context of the Wolfenson/World Bank Comprehensive Development Framework.Argues that NGOs' engagement in the conditionality debate has largely focused on concerns about donors' policy prescriptions and advocating alternatives.
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  The Search for the Key: Aid, Investment, and Policies in Africa

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Aid does not necessarily finance investment, and investment does not necessarily promote growth. But the combination of private investment, good policies, and foreign aid is quite powerful.
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  Economic Policy Reform and Growth Prospects in Emerging Africa Economies

  OECD Development Centre, 1999

  Assesses the prospects for growth of African economies up to the year 2010 by modelling structural and policy determinants of growth, under different scenarios for changes in the exogenous factors and economic policies which shape the projections. To this end we estimate a growth model for 39 African economies, during seven five-year periods from 1960 through 1995.
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  Governance and Economic Performance: A Survey

  Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung, Bonn, 1999

  Presents a framework for analyzing the determinants and effects of public governance and a survey of recent theoretical and empirical studies pertaining to developing and transition countries.
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  Aid and Reform in Africa

  Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1999

  Since the early 1980s, virtually every African country has received large amounts of aid aimed at stimulating policy reform. The results have varied enormously. Ghana and Uganda were successful reformers that grew rapidly and reduced poverty. In other countries policies changed little or even got worse.
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  Politics and poverty: a background paper for the World Development Report 2000/1

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  Report is a synthesis of the conclusions of a research project on the responsiveness of political systems to poverty reduction prepared for DFIDPolicy issues include: Democracy has differential outcomes for the poorStates create and shape the political opportunities for the poorThere is no reason to expect that decentralisation will be pro-poorThere is a wide range of possib
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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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