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    Danish Development Cooperation with India - in a Poverty Reduction Perspective

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    The paper gives an overview of Denmark's official development cooperation with India, viewed from a poverty reduction perspective. It is one of the products of a research project, entitled 'Comparative Study of European Aid for Poverty Reduction in India', carried out in 1997 by a group of four European and eleven Indian researchers.
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    Structural and Sectoral Adjustment World Bank Experience, 1980-92

    Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995
    Adjustment lending has been the subject of considerable scrutiny and debate. Six years ago, the Operations Evaluation Department (OED) published its first review of experience with this form of lending.
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    Ghana Country Assistance Review: A study in Development Effectiveness

    Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995
    Bank assistance was generally effective in helping Ghana make considerable economic progress over the past decade.
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    Empowerment as an approach to poverty

    Global Reproductive Health Forum, 1999
    This paper seeks to clarify the role of empowerment in anti-poverty policies by addressing the following questions: what is empowerment and how does it relate to participation and botom-up approaches? why is empowerment a useful concept when addressing poverty? what are the potential and pitfalls of an approach based on empowerment?
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    CARE Village Banks Project, Guatemala

    Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1998
    The Women’s Village Banking (VB) Program of CARE Guatemala provides particularly interesting insights into some of the issues and challenges facing village banking programs around the world. Like many programs started in the 1980's, the CARE VB program was created as an experiment in the increasingly popular field of microenterprise finance.
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    The Alexandria Business Association Small and Microenterprise Project, Egypt

    Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1988
    This case study is designed to go behind the financial data (which show that ABA is indeed moving to financial sustainability) and place the project within the culture of the microfinance world as presently constituted.
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    Get Ahead Foundation [NGO credit in South Africa]

    Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1998
    Briefly outlines some of GAF’s numerous activities during the past decade. These diverse projects reflect a donor-driven approach to development that was common among South African NGOs during apartheid. The end of apartheid in 1994 precipitated changes in donor priorities, and indirectly caused Get Ahead to change its methods.
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    FINCA: Insights from a unique approach to village banking [in Costa Rica]

    Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1998
    FINCA Costa Rica has been both a leader and a non-conformist in village banking. As one of the first village banking examples in Latin America, the program offers valuable lessons to other village banking institutions. While still retaining the FINCA name, FINCA Costa Rica has split from FINCA International, the US-based NGO that is credited with developing the village banking methodology.
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    The Business of Education: A Look at Kenya's Private Education Sector

    International Finance Corporation, 1997
    This case study surveys the educational services provided by the private sector in Kenya, identifies the major issues and discusses a possible role for the World Bank Group, especially IFC. The demand for all types of education at all levels has greatly outpaced the capacity of the public school system.
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    Land, Forests and People in Finnish Aid in Zanzibar: Some Preliminary Observations

    Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, 1998
    Sets out to examine the question of aid provision. As part of a general study on Finnish aid, the main focus is on two projects in Zanzibar: Zanzibar Forestry Project (ZFP) and Zanzibar Integrated Lands and Environment Management (ZILEM) project. This study centres on initial research carried out in Dar es Salaam (documentary) and Unguja (documentary, observational and in-depth interviews).

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