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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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  UNDP and Governance: Experiences and Lessons Learned

  Management & Governance Network, UNDP, 1998

  Traces the evolution of UNDP’s approach to governance and to summarise the key trends and programme activities which have been identified as elements necessary for the achievement of sustainable human development.
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  Making Adjustment Work for the Poor

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  Many developing countries are engaged in structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) sponsored by the IMF and World Bank.
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  Creation of Land Markets in Transition Countries: Implications for the Institutions of Land Administration

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999

  Describes (1) the processes of privatization of land management in selected transition countries and (2) the post-privatization changes in land administration institutions which are being crafted to establish land markets.
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  Uncertainty of Aid Inflows and the Aid-Growth Relationship

  Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 1999

  Argues that it is not the level of aid flows per se but the stability of such flows that determines the impact of aid on economic growth. Three measures of aid instability are employed. One is a simple deviation from trend, and measures overall instability. The other measures are based on auto-regressive estimates to capture deviations from an expected trend.
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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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  Governance in Thailand: challenges, issues and prospects

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 1999

  Overview of the major governance issues currently confronting the Thai Government, with particular emphasis upon the issues likely to be of greatest interest to international donors such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
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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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