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    The Implications of Foreign Aid Fungibility for Development Assistance

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
    To address the fungibility of foreign aid funds, a proposed new lending instrument—a public expenditure reform loan—would tie an institution's lending strategy to the recipient country's achieving mutually agreed-upon development goals.A foreign aid or foreign lending policy that focuses exclusively on project financing may have unintended consequences, report Devarajan and Swaroop.
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    Tentative Costing of Illustrative Alternatives to the HIPC Initiative Framework

    International Monetary Fund, 1999
    Tentative estimates of the costs of changing some key parameters of the current framework of the HIPC Initiative. Intended to illustrate the kinds of proposals which have been made by NGOs such as Eurodad, Jubilee 2000, Oxfam, and religious groups.
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    Lessons from Africa's Social Funds and Public Works and Employment Projects

    Africa Region Findings, World Bank, 1998
    The concept of creating autonomous or semi-autonomous entities to implement small-scale projects more efficiently has spread throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.
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    Water Challenge and Institutional Response: A Cross-Country Perspective

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    Concerns in the water sector, which once revolved around water development (and quantity), now revolve around water allocation (and quality).
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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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    A Social Network Approach to Analyzing Research Systems: A Study of Kenya, Ghana, and Kerala, India

    International Service for National Agricultural Research, 1997
    Describes a social network approach to analyzing science and technology systems, taking into account the primary sectors involved in agriculture and natural resource management. It outlines a methodology for producing an inventory of the set of relationships that actually occur rather than purely formal, “on paper” linkages, which may or may not be operational.
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    UNDP's Experience in Supporting Governance and Reconciliation Programmes in Countries in Special Circumstances

    Management & Governance Network, UNDP, 1999
    In the recent past, UNDP has designed, implemented and supported programmes to promote governance and reconciliation initiatives in countries in conflict or undergoing economic transition.
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    Business services in the Globalizing African economies

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    Discusses the role of business services in the economy in general and especially in the low-income African economies. At the global level large transnational business service firms are developing global service networks linking the world’s large cities together and serving especially the large transnational companies, but apparently largely by-passing Africa.
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    Limping towards a Ditch without a Crutch: The Brave New World of Tanzanian Cotton Marketing Cooperatives.

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    Describes developments in cotton marketing cooperatives in Tanzania’s major cotton growing area between 1991 and 1997. During this period cooperatives underwent voluntarisation, lost state and donor financial support and (from 1995) had to face strong competition from private cotton buyers/ginners.
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    Conflict, Development and the Lomé Convention

    Development Studies Association, UK and Ireland, 1999
    Examines the idea of conflict prevention as a new theme in development theory. It analyses conflict and development in a variety of aspects and raises the question of whether international conflict prevention is merely a new fashion in development theory.

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